Vol 5 Chapter 1: Add makeup

Huatian uses iron wire and cardboard as the frame, and is wrapped with a net-like pattern woven with black silk threads. The surface is all dotted with green.
The front part is decorated with five golden silk phoenixes, with pearls and gems embedded on the front, pearls and gem tassels in the mouth.
Next to the golden phoenix, there are nine golden arranged with tassels of pearls, coral, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and red sapphires.
There are also a few series of tassel pendants on the back of Tian [Note], which look beautiful and dazzling.
It was in the evening, and the setting sun shone in from the window lattices, reflecting each other with the pearls, and the hall was more noble.
Gu Zhen sighed, carefully placed Huatian on the ebony lacquer plate in front of him, and said slowly: "Send it to Xuanqing Palace, it is said that this palace added makeup to Princess Xincheng."
When she said this, she subconsciously turned her head and glanced at the crystal mirror not far away. The queen in the phoenix crown and dress in the mirror was still noble and beautiful at first glance, but just a little attention, you can find that there are already a few strands on her sideburns. Light gray, but Huafa was born early.
"My palace isn't young anymore..." Gu Zhen sighed again. She was the same age as Chunjia. This year is already Chunjia's 20th year, and she's all sitting around the age of four.
It's just that men are more forbidden to be older than women. Chunjia is in control of the power, and he is increasingly talking about one thing, everything goes well, looking at it, he only feels majestic and grand, but his face is as handsome and upright as ever.
It is the queen. Since the beginning of this year, at the ceremony, the empresses are side by side, making people think that she is seven or eight years old as an older emperor.
The old people in the past are fine. They all know that the queen has become more and more difficult in the past two years.
In the fifteenth year of Chunjia, the two healthy princes, the tenth prince and the twelfth prince were removed to the Taichu Palace, and the emperor personally took over their teaching.
This would have been a good thing.
But after the two princes arrived at the Partial Hall of the Taichu Palace, for the first few months, the emperor just watched indifferently, but they were still fine.
Sixteen years after Chunjia, because there was nothing wrong in the country, Chunjia was not polite when she freed her hands, but she blatantly trained the two children.
The ten princes are arrogant, and the emperor often scolds and blames; the twelve princes are cowardly, and the emperor mostly encourages and persuades.
In all fairness, Chunjia's arrangement in this way can be regarded as a concern for the two prostitutes.
However, the relationship between the ten princes and the twelve princes has gone from bad to worse.
Not only that, there are rumors gradually spreading during the imperial prohibition that one of the two princes is too domineering and the other is too weak, and none of them is normal. It can be seen that the queen is deliberately unpredictable and deliberately raises the prince and abolishes the prince. The identity is determined.
Although these words were circulated for a while and were suppressed by the emperor together, what was terrible was that the ten princes and the twelve princes heard them.
Although the two princes became more respectful to the queen, Gu Zhen always felt that they had actually become alienated from themselves in their hearts.
In terms of palace affairs, the collision between the middle palace and the imperial concubine is increasing day by day.
This is not what annoys the Queen the most. What makes her vomiting blood the most is that in the middle of Chunjia’s sixteen years, after repeated requests from her and Mrs Gu, Chunjia allowed Gu to send a pair of sisters into the palace. Under the banner of accompany the queen, as the prince of the middle palace family, the concubine candidate in the future.
As a result, Gu Long, the sister of the two young ladies of the Gu family, didn't like the third prince, let alone the king of Chu, nor the sixth prince... but the seventh prince who saw the sky came forward!
To be honest, although the queen does not like noble concubines, she really wants to praise the seventh prince that this child is indeed excellent.
Because of his grandfather Yin Qu, the position of this child in the palace has always been a little detached. Even the imperial concubine has to deal with it specially and refuses to be left out at will.
But there is no arrogance, but a very generous and courteous nature.
In addition to being more sentimental and partial to the imperial concubine, it can be said that he is a rare sincere gentleman.
And the appearance is quite Xiao like Chunjia when he was young, elegant and romantic.
Sometimes when Gu Zhen saw this child, he would feel a little dazed. He remembered that when he first entered the palace when he was fifteen or sixteen, he saw the appearance of the emperor for the first time.
Chunjia's heart is like a stone, and many of the old people who accompanied him from the time of his wedding, there are not a few who have died well, and few have had a comfortable life, including the childhood sweetheart An concubine. Even so, who hasn't such old people as Gu Zhen secretly moved to the emperor in his best years? At that time, I was still a little naive and childish. I didn't know the depth of the sorrow of such an emperor. At first, I was tempted to covet the good color of the Ninety-Five Supreme.
Thinking of this, Gu Zhen really couldn't bear to blame Gu Long.
Gu Long is her direct niece, the same age as the ten princes. In the arrangement between the queen and the Gu family, if she is not surprised, she will become the side concubine of the ten princes in the future.
It’s just that Gu Long was able to welcome the ten princes one or two at first. After seeing the seven princes several times by coincidence, she even avoided the ten princes...
If other princes have many nieces in their natal family, the queen is not unable to try to fulfill her thoughts.
The problem is that the seven princes are raised by the noble concubine, even if they do not consider the relationship between the two parties, and only say that their niece wants to be the noble concubine's daughter-in-law, Gu Zhen will be black for Gu Long.
That is the master who ran the dignified mother empress dowager out of Beijing in embarrassment, and has not been able to return to Miyagi. He treated her elders with such savage methods, let alone be a junior for her?
In particular, the Seventh Prince was good at everything, except for the imperial concubine, he even thought his mother and concubine were good and everything was right.
Even Yin Qu, his grandfather and grandfather, became more and more controlled by the imperial concubine.
Gu Zhen twitched the corners of his mouth helplessly, wondering whether he would wait for the letter to be released and find an excuse to send Gu Long back to her family.
Otherwise, a niece is wasted, so don't make any disturbances and drag down the reputation of Zhonggong.
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Although Zhonggong has been defeated again and again in the past two years, his reputation has also been defeated seven or eighty eight.
But Gu Long was not up for it, and Gu Long's sisters still expected to marry into the royal family, so they couldn't call her a ignorant and ruin the future of other girls.
"Niang, this flower tin is so luxurious, it would be too deceptive for Xin to become a princess." Someone among the attendants gave her an injustice, and whispered, "She will soon marry outside the Great Wall, and it will be cold in those places. , Where can it be used? Don’t move a king's account, drop the beads and drop the cuiyu, you don’t have to spoil the good things, it is better to send two at random."
Concubine Min is not a good person anyway, so what good is it for her niece?
Gu Zhen squeezed his forehead and said slowly, "I said so, after all, it is the princess who was enshrined by your majesty himself, and he went to be the Weihe Dalfa family. As a queen, there must be two appearances in the makeup. Something. Otherwise, if it is passed out, it will not be able to open the pot for our Zhonggong!"
After Chunjia personally raised the ten princes and the twelve princes, he thought that he had done his responsibilities to the Zhonggong family to the Gu family. After that, he was more at ease in favoring the imperial concubine.
Originally, the imperial concubine was domineering and arrogant, but after this incident, it was even more blatant.
Half a year ago, I tried to find fault with the Ping family. The tenth prince personally went to the imperial court to intercede. Not only did he fail to make Chunjia feel soft, he was scolded in public by the emperor, saying that he was ungrateful, a lowly maid, and he was born high and low. His aunt, as well as the noble concubine, can see that there is no respect or humiliation in their hearts. Not only did the tenth prince kneel for four hours, but also the few bachelors who admired him the most. The reason is that they There is no way to teach, and there is no way to urge the good ten princes to become a good prince with good character and learning.
After this incident spread, the front and back palaces all talked about it, thinking that the ten princes might be a little bit too far away from that seat.
After all, the emperor loves the imperial concubine so much, how can he let the ten princes who have grudges with the imperial concubine come to the top?
After hearing the news, Gu Zhen was so angry that he hated Yun Fenghuang's viciousness and deliberately started to anger the ten princes. He also hated the ten princes for being confused, even if he wanted to protect his mother, who would show that this attitude is not good, in Chunjia in front of?
It is not yet the turn of the ten princes to be the masters themselves!
She knows the child’s sex, lest he say something that shouldn’t be said in a rage, and cut off the future more and more, so she abruptly broke her coat and blew a cold wind all night, making herself ill, an excuse The ten princes are needed to attend to the illness, and they will be held by their side to teach them well.
After this incident, the ten princes had converged a lot, and showed some sincerity towards her.
It's just that the mother and the son have been separated for a few years. It's not a short-lived relationship that can smooth the gap between them.
It's impossible to be as affectionate and affectionate as the seventh prince and the imperial concubine.
And the result of the queen's cross-cutting was that the imperial concubine did not target the flat and slim afterwards, but sang her against her everywhere.
Gu Zhen didn't say anything, but he was really tired in his heart.
She is nearly ten years older than Yun Fenghuang, and she cannot be favored by Chunjia, and she does not have enough ability to be qualified for the position of the middle palace... It is really very difficult to support it until now. Therefore, in the past two years, she has treated Yun Fenghuang, If you can give in, then you give in.
What I said to the left and right is that there is no need to stir up troubles because of trivial things and increase Chunjia's disgust towards them.
In fact, I feel tired.
It's the same this time.
Princess Xincheng Xie Kuo was registered five years ago, originally she would marry the grassland the year before.
But in the eighteenth year of Chunjia, Wei Hexin Khan was seriously ill and almost didn't make it through.
The Guochao urgently convened a court meeting for this purpose. The courtiers were divided into two factions. One faction proposed to marry the princess Xincheng immediately. If the Khan gets cold, he will adopt his nephew and his nephew, and use Xie Kuo as the regent of the Queen Mother Wei He. The other faction thinks. , Xie Kuo was not very old and young. No matter how weak Wei He is now, it was a dynasty that was once able to sit on an equal footing with the country. How could it be possible that Xie Kuo's first came to the Dahua Clan that could be suppressed?
Yes, Xie Kuo couldn't marry far away alone. He would definitely arrange for manual dowry and make suggestions.
But no matter how many people gave their ideas, at the critical moment, Xie Kuo still had to be able to afford the scene. If this candidate was the concubine Min, the courtiers would dare to rest assured.
However, Xie Kuo is rumored to be calm and well-behaved, so everyone naturally doesn't believe her.
The most important thing is that Xie Kuo and Wei Hexin Khan seem to be ages.
The young Khan was born and raised on the grassland, and he is at risk of death. What's more, Xie Kuo, the master who has been in front of the imperial concubine for many years?
What if Xie Kuo is gone, there will be two shortcomings within two years?
This is not to curse her, but it is really possible.
What kind of pretense does the country have to manipulate the Weihe Khan?
In the end, the latter group had the upper hand, and Guochao found an excuse to delay the marriage and confirmed that the Khan had survived, and only then agreed to continue the marriage.
But after Yun Fenghuang knew about it, he said that Khan was already weak, and after this incident, he didn't know if he could live a long life. Even if you don’t think about her niece, but simply think about the country, Prince Wei He, who is bleeding from the country, is always more reliable than the children of the past?
All in all, the country was procrastinated and procrastinated until the beginning of this year, and learned that Khan Wei He was completely better off, and even let a female slave give birth to a male heir, and then let Xie Kuo marry Xie Kuo.
Qintian supervised the auspicious time to be the beginning of autumn. It is only the beginning of spring, and there is still enough time to prepare, but taking into account the summer heat in the middle, in fact, it is the day when Xincheng came out of the pavilion when he came back from Qishan this year. In this way, the queen was afraid that she would be in a hurry, so she simply took advantage of the people under her to send up the new batch of jewelry, and gave her makeup first.
Send to Xuanqing Palace from left to right, and Concubine Youmin picks up things for her niece.
After arranging this matter, she didn't want to think too much about the annoying things. Instead, she asked someone to take a pile of portraits in front of her, and muttered, "You said, among these girls, who is more agreeable to Bing'er?"
[Note] Diancui inlaid jewels with five phoenix tins, the description comes from the appreciation of the collection of the Forbidden City.
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