Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Phoenix position

All the ceremonies after Liberation are established, and are presided over by the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Naturally, Ruyi didn't need to worry about the red tape, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, as if she was back in the time of getting married, where others arranged everything, and she just had to wait and put on her wedding dress in peace of mind.It's the same now, just like a puppet, waiting for each piece of clothing to be measured, watching the phoenix crown being made and delivered to the eyes.The emperor naturally put his heart into it. Even though there was the canonization ceremony of Empress Xiaoxian as an old example, the emperor still ordered everything to be carefully crafted.The silk and satin are carefully cut, and the phoenix coronet and xiapei are densely cast. If you look at it too much, everything will become a random thing in the bright galaxy, not worth mentioning.

Song Xin was naturally overjoyed, dragging her injured leg to help in the palace.At this time, Ruyi realized the benefits of the new maid.That court lady is Rong Pei. Rong Pei had a long face, slender eyebrows and eyes swept over her, she was cold and expressionless, and she was dressed in a plain court lady's dress with slanted breasts, wrapping her thin and straight waist tightly and neatly.Rong Pei was born under the Five Banners, because she was blindsided when she was there, now she is unmoved by being held up by others, and she doesn't get close to anyone.She has a very sharp and courageous temperament, and she is also very shrewd in doing things. She has a bold and bold side, and she also knows how to keep silent at the right time.Facing a group of eunuchs who are accustomed to doing things in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, she is as meticulous as a hair, neither humble nor overbearing, and takes care of all kinds of trivial matters after the seal.As long as anyone who fishes in troubled waters is not careful, she reminds him once, and if there is a second time, he will slap him, and he will not be merciless.

Hailan saw her a few times, and she couldn't help laughing: "This girl has a strong temper, and she doesn't think of herself as a newcomer at all." Ruyi also smiled: "Rong Pei is a powerful character who can take care of things, she can let go. I can also relax." However, Hailan was also worried: "Rong Pei suddenly came into Yikun Palace, do you know the details?" Ruyi nodded: "Three Treasures have checked her details carefully, a lonely child, rootless, but also pure." After serving like this for a few days, even Ji Xin also praised: "Your Rong Pei serves on the empress, and the servants can go out with peace of mind."

From then on, Ruyi regarded Rong Pei as her confidant and valued her very much.And because of Ruyi's rescue that day, Rong Pei was also extraordinarily loyal. Except for Ruyi, no one else listened to him or recognized anyone else. However, not everyone is convinced by this time. Since Yonghuang's death, Luyun has been deeply concerned about the future of his parent and son Yongzhang, not only worshiping Buddha and chanting scriptures every day, but also gradually eating vegetarian food.If there is no major event, I will not go out much.But even if you are gentle and evasive like Luyun, when no one meets you by chance in private, you will sadly say: "Imperial Concubine, you are obviously from a noble family, but in detail, your family background is dilapidated, and you are not favored by the Queen Mother. How much better I am. In terms of beauty, you are not the most beautiful and the best in the palace, and the emperor is not a favorite of Jiaofang, not to mention that you have never even given birth to a princess, but in the end, it was you who became Queen, what is it for?"

Luyun's confusion is probably also the incomprehension that many people can't explain. Ruyi at that time was Fanghua in the prosperous age, wearing a gorgeous and pure tulip red brocade robe, such a pure red, only slightly embroidered with gold thread on the sleeves and neckline, sandwiching jade-white double epiphyllum patterns, and the corner of the robe was long. Long ground brushed on the upper of the shoes embellished with clouds and pearls, glowing with a light gold and silver color, as gorgeous as the sun.Only in this way can she bear such a warm and pure color well-deservedly, and force the bright red color to dim a bit with indifference.

"What is it for?" Ruyi smiled self-deprecatingly, "I am originally from a successful family, but I am also from a defeated family. I don't have the most dazzling beauty, I don't have deep love, and my virtuous name is not as good as Empress Xiaoxian. As for the child, I It’s really not as good as your sons and daughters, having more children and more blessings. I only have one life, one breath, and everything is my own. But it’s because I have nothing that I can be a fearless queen.” Yi stared deeply at Lu Yun's slightly slack face, which was gradually eroded by the years, and the confidence and depression that went deep into the bone marrow after the empress Xiaoxian's death, like a layer of gray The net covered her tightly like a shadow, and she couldn't help but feel a bit sad, "Also, if I were me, I would never ask like you, why is it that who is the queen?"

Luyun stared at Ruyi for a long time, leaving behind a pair of gloomy eyes, and lowered her sad face: "All these years, I don't ask for anything other than that my child can grow up safely and happily. For this, I can bear no matter how many grievances Finally, wait and wait, those people died before me, a useless person. Then I became delusional and listened to Jin Yuyan's flattery, thinking that I also had the capital to fight for the queen's position, at least I could To fight for my children's status as a descendant, and to fight for a future where they will no longer be bullied by others. However, I am not as good as you after all. Therefore, if you want to blame me for competing with you for the second place, I can only You can just do it yourself.”

Ruyi didn't understand Luyun's pain, and because of this understanding, she felt a little compassion.Ruyi looked at her peacefully, and looked at her softly: "Everything you do is for the future of your child, and you don't intend to harm me. Because I have no children, I will not favor any prince, let alone fight with you." You care about old things." Lu Yun's eyes lit up, her heart was touched gently, and she wept, "Really?" Ruyi looked at her calmly, and said calmly: "Naturally. It's not for anything else, just because Yonghuang is a child we both raised, and moreover, when we were in the hidden mansion, besides Hailan, you were the closest to me .”

Lvyun faced the wind and shed tears of emotion.The successive blows by Yonghuang and Yongzhang have already made Lvyun's favor no longer what it used to be, and even the palace people can't avoid it.The world is so hot and cold, but it's just relying on the experience of previous years to survive.And she, apart from her noble status, has long been unable to retain anything, and even the fading years have never cared for her.Compared with Jin Yuyan at the same age, Luyun's aging is too obvious, and Yuyan, at least under the makeup, still retains the elegance and beauty of the past.

After Luyun left, Hailan found Ruyi's trace in Changchun Palace. Everything in the Changchun Palace was arranged as when Empress Xiaoxian was there, but the Yiren had already gone, and the spring and the blue sky had already faded away. Ruyi stood quietly in the Nuan Pavilion, as if it was yesterday. Hailan approached slowly: "I don't want my sister to be here." Ruyi smiled faintly: "The emperor often comes to Changchun Palace to sit and feel grateful for Empress Xiaoxian. Today, I also come to visit my old friend's hometown." Hailan snorted lightly: "The emperor is deeply affectionate, so there is no need for my sister to be like this."

Ruyi shook her head slightly: "No! Only now did I realize how ignorant I was when I was entangled with Empress Xiaoxian! We spent the best years of our lives hating and killing each other, and we refused to let go for a moment. But in the end, who has been fulfilled?" Hailan lowered her eyes: "Left and right, she is sorry for my sister." "I'm sorry for her too!" Ruyi opened her eyes instantly, "It was me who killed her beloved child! As long as I close my eyes, I will be afraid and regret it!" Hailan pondered for a moment, and then Fang asked: "So today, my sister will ignore all the fights for the post in the past, and just let the pure noble concubine go so easily?" Ruyi concentrating for a moment, then slowly said: "In the past, Concubine Chun competed for the post because of her love for her son, but also because she was implicated by Empress Xiaoxian's dying recommendation, and Jin Yuyan's instigation." Hailan frowned slightly: "But she does have that kind of heart after all." Ruyi smiled calmly, and said: "I understand what you mean. But, I am about to be in the middle palace, and many things need to be ruthless, but they also need to be more lenient, otherwise the pressure will be too tight , is also useless, pure noble concubine ranks second only to me among the concubines, and I have subdued her, and I have also subdued some of the people below, not for anything else, but because I have dragged Yonghuang down. I have never forgotten Yonghuang's death In my arms." Hailan pursed her lips and smiled, and stayed by Ruyi's side: "Sister says whatever, I just think, sister is becoming more and more like a queen." Ruyi raised her slender willow-leaf eyebrows, and her long eyelashes were like the wings of a jackdaw, covering her eyes with a light blue smoke. Silk White Jade Epiphyllum's sleeve, softly said: "Being more and more like a queen? Hailan, you know who I think of most these days?" Hailan stood behind her, wearing a newly made moon-white long gown with gold threads and dark flowers, and the outside was green and jasper-colored and silver-threaded and plain soft-smoky Robija, and a plain white embroidered magnolia fan was waving once in a while. , a pair of eyes half-open: "Sister, do you think of the former Queen Ulanara?" Ruyi looked around Changchun Palace, and said quietly: "On this day, I will be able to live up to Amma, who is dying in peace, and my aunt who is painstaking. It's just that Empress Xiaoxian is what I think of most." She saw Hailan He didn't care, and continued, "These days I've been thinking, as the middle palace, Empress Xiaoxian is impeccable on the surface, why the emperor always treats her as if she is not at ease, and seems to be a little wary. Once you become a regular wife, you will never be truly happy. Facing your husband and the person next to your pillow, you are like walking on eggshells." Hailan said: "Everyone has his own destiny, what does sister do to worry about others?" Ruyi bit her lips, but still couldn't resist the words that were on the tip of her tongue: "Hailan, I've been thinking that if Empress Xiaoxian is just a concubine and not a regular wife, she never had the right to stand side by side with the emperor and govern the country. Will the emperor treat her like other women, with more tenderness and love? Will—" Hailan interjected: "Could it be that my sister's aunt will get better results?" She said softly, "Even a cold-hearted person like me would panic after listening to what my sister said. Could it be that my sister thinks that she is about to be in the middle palace, which will arouse the suspicion of the emperor? Sister, you are too happy to think so wildly. Of course, the emperor has always been conceited, and he does not want to move down the throne, let alone allow anyone to disobey , but...it’s not like this.” Ruyi forced a smile: "Maybe I'm really overthinking." The bright sun was shining down on the shining glazed green tiles, casting a layer of light gray shadow on half of her face, tenderness and tenderness. Heart trembling, the separation of light and darkness is like the separation of heaven and earth, but they overlap in the endless place, distinct and blurred.She just felt an indescribable coldness slowly growing in her heart. Even surrounded by the warm summer sun, that bleak chill still spread from the depths of her body, bit by bit with the flow of blood. Infiltrate. On the second day of August in the fifteenth year of Qianlong, the emperor formally issued an imperial edict, appointing the senior scholar Fu Heng as the chief envoy, and the senior scholar Shi Yizhi as the deputy envoy, holding the festival and the book of treasures, and enshrining the imperial concubine Ulanara Ruyi as the queen. The book is grand and eloquent: The only thing I can do is to rely on the merits of Kun Cheng Jianshun, external governance and constant capital for internal work, and the transformation of the family state into Sloan.However, the long-term emptiness of Zhonghuo is suitable for Hongyi's actions.The imperial concubine, Nala, has a beautiful and famous family, Zhongxiang Shide.As early as from Qiandi, he wrote Fang type with chapters.Jinxi was honored, and he was blessed while Kexian was inside.Today, I read it for three years and the deadline is due, and I will follow the edict of mercy in ceremony.Respectfully honored by the Empress Dowager's order, Jin Baolier, the golden book, is the empress.The benevolence of catching katydids and trees will be blessed forever.The moral education of Ju Yi in the Qin Cocoon Pavilion, respecting the front emblem of Shaoxing.There is light in the stars.Hongxiu nourishes to Qinzai. In the early morning of the day after Li Li, the weather was not too hot, the emperor held his hands and smiled: "I chose the second day of August, which is the day you married into the Qiandi. August is also my Longevity Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival Reunion is the same month. I hope to see you day and night, and reunite every year." Ruyi dressed in the queen's court clothes, and went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to pay respects to the queen mother before the empress ceremony.At that time the Empress Dowager had already changed into her court clothes and a golden crown, and when she saw her coming, she just accepted the gift silently. Ruyi bowed her head three times, and said sincerely: "Whether the Queen's mother wants her son to become a queen or not, but the son can have today, after all, thanks to the queen's mother for her guidance and promotion." The queen mother caressed the golden dragon makeup on the skirt, her eyes were calm and peaceful: "Although you are not the most favorite candidate for the empress of the Ai family, it is you who can reach this position after all." Ruyi bowed her head respectfully: "Thank you, Queen Mother, for your compliment." The queen mother shook her head peacefully: "It's not a compliment, it's because you have the blood of Ulanara on your body. No one can match that kind of blood in your bones." Never really beat your aunt." Ruyi was slightly surprised. In her impression, the Queen Mother has always been extremely sophisticated and thoughtful.And my aunt, the winner and loser, has already become a wisp of smoke, forgotten by the world. Ruyi was silent for a while, and said: "Mother Huang, my son has been unclear about his consciousness, please tell me clearly." The queen mother glanced at her and said lightly: "You tell me." Ruyi looked directly at the Empress Dowager, and there were too many puzzles and doubts in her eyes: "Back then, the aunt of the minister was in the middle palace, and she was the sister of Empress Xiaoxian Xian, and the relatives of Empress Xiao Gongren, the holy ancestor. His subordinates suffered a crushing defeat and ended up in a miserable death in the cold palace?" The Empress Dowager smiled slightly, with an unfathomable chill in her eyes: "Today is your happy day, why do you have to ask such an unlucky question?" Ruyi's smile is quiet, like a mandarin duck tile standing still under the magnificent sunlight, but the beauty makes people calm down: "If you ask about bad luck, you hope that your future will not be bad, but please ask me Mother is perfect." The Empress Dowager looked at the floating gold outside the palace, narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she was immersed in the long past, and said faintly: "You have committed evil, you cannot live." Ruyi pondered for a while, and bit her snow-white teeth lightly: "Who in the palace does not commit crimes, why can't Aunt alone live?" The Empress Dowager looked at Ruyi, and took a closer look for a moment: "When you said this, you had the air of your aunt not to lose the world. It's a pity..." The Empress Dowager shook her head, and said slowly, "Your aunt just cares too much. You care too much about your offspring, you care too much about your successor, and you care more about your heart. In fact, the empress is a sacred place enshrined, and everything is fleeting. As long as you don’t make mistakes and don’t be harmed by others, you will eventually have a lifetime of prosperity and peace.” Ruyi hesitated for a moment: "Then it's wrong to care about heirs, heirs, and the king's heart? Or, the Queen Mother doesn't care?" The queen mother smiled calmly: "There are always people who don't care, and there are always people who care more. Those who care more, if they reveal what they care about, it is tantamount to telling others where their fatal wound is. And, Aijia can say it again, Aijia has never defeated your aunt, and there is only one person who can defeat your aunt, the queen of the year, and that is the first emperor, the Lord of Wancheng at that time." Ruyi had heard about the past, and raised her bright eyes to look at the queen mother: "Yes. But in the past, the harem was chaotic, and my aunt's position was not secure." The Empress Dowager's voice was calm in her old age, just like the smoldering drops of water falling heavily on the smooth stone steps under the eaves of the madam after a cold autumn rain, arousing a dull echo: "You are wrong. Throughout the dynasties, Even if there is a monopoly on favoring concubines, if the position of empress is unstable, it is only unstable. Only the emperor can ever shake the position of the empress. Success is also the emperor, and defeat is also the emperor." Ruyi understood it clearly, raised her eyes and smiled: "So my son's whole body is tied to the emperor, and has nothing to do with others. My son just needs to be the emperor's wife." The queen mother also laughed and sighed: "You can say this, so you can sit in the back seat. But you have to understand that you are not only the emperor's wife and ally, but also his courtier and slave. Even if you are the queen, it is the same The queen mother stared at her for a moment, then smiled brightly, "From now on, you are the queen above thousands of people, but the Ulanara queen of the Qing Dynasty rarely died well." The Queen Mother's words seemed to be a curse, but they were also true.Taizu Nurhachi's great concubine Ulanarashi Abahai was buried by Emperor Taizong Huang Taiji, and because Lord Shunzhi disliked his son Dorgon, Abahai was expelled from Nurhachi's Taimiao after his death and pursued all titles. The end was extremely bleak.As for my two aunts, how could they not be miserable, each of them died childless, what will happen to me, my future? She didn't have time to think about it, and she didn't have time to allow her to think about it.The sound of joyful rites and music has already sounded, welcoming her to become the mistress of this dynasty, and together with the man who rules the world, she will become a figure standing side by side in the vast sky. Ruyi kowtowed and left slowly.The moment she walked out of the Compassionate Ning Palace, she turned her head and looked back, the sun was shining like gold, and the plaque of the Compassionate Ning Palace seemed to be waving like shining golden powder.Perhaps one day, she will become the master of the Compassionate Palace like the Queen Mother, and Ju Yangshen Palace will be the best destination for her as a queen. When the register was established, Qin Tianjian reported that the auspicious time had come, and bells and drums rang at the Meridian Gate.The emperor descended to the Empress of the Taihe Palace.The guard of Luanyi praised "Singing the Whip", and the Danbi Big Band also played the music of "The Chapter of Qingping".The whip falling on the white marble platform in the palace was particularly crisp and powerful, as if the entire Forbidden City was filled with this shocking and dizzying echo. Ruyi was standing outside the gate of Yikun Palace, the weather was hot, and if she moved slightly, she would sweat profusely and her clothes would be wet.Rong Pei and Tong Xin have been waiting by her side, carefully fitting her clothes, sweating out, and maintaining a correct appearance.In fact, compared to the imperial concubine's uniform, the queen's uniform is much thicker, wearing it on the body, like heavy golden shackles, trapping the whole body.However, this dress is the yearning of many women in the harem. Once put on, it will be the top of ten thousand people.The bright white sunlight made her slightly dizzy, and countless golden halos forced her eyes, illuminating her gorgeous and solemn clothes like clouds, making people dare not look at her closely, and even the exquisitely embroidered flying phoenix on her body was eager to try. , Teng Yun wants to fly. At the moment when she finally walked side by side with her man, Ruyi suddenly thought of the person from the past, who was also her successor, her aunt, how was she feeling at that moment?Are you like yourself, with a little bit of peace in the excitement and the joy of finally achieving your wish, and you are full of emotions. On the side of the Yikun Palace is the Changchun Palace where Empress Xiaoxian used to live. Compared with the bustling Yikun Palace, which attracts everyone's attention, the Changchun Palace, which was used for the emperor's mourning, looks particularly deserted and desolate.Perhaps, even Empress Xiaoxian never thought that the last person to enter the middle palace would be her, Ulanara Ruyi. The sun was so bright and dazzling that Ruyi could see in his slightly squinted eyes that the principal and deputy envoys were coming, and the inner eunuch held the festival, the book, and the treasure one by one and entered the palace through the middle gate, and put the festival on the middle case. He Baowen was placed in the east case, and then the court lady introduced Ruyi to stand on the north side of the place of worship, and presented it with a booklet.At this point, the canonization of the queen is completed. The next day, accompanied by princes and ministers of civil and military affairs, the emperor went to the empress dowager's palace to salute.After the ceremony, the Palace of Imperial Harmony.The king, civil and military officials are invited to go to the table to celebrate.And Ruyi also had to go to the Empress Dowager's Palace to salute, and then to the emperor to salute after the ceremony.Afterwards, the imperial concubine brought all the concubines, the princess, Fujin and the wives to Yikun Palace to salute. On that day, Ruyi met Princess Hejing who was watching the ceremony in Guining. After a few years of separation, the princess turned into a glamorous woman. A trace of fortitude.She raised her beautiful eyes to look at Ruyi, her eyes scanned her body without any scruples, and finally said solemnly: "I didn't expect that you became the queen. When I knew Huang Ama ordered me to come back to watch the ceremony, I I can't believe it, I always feel that whether it is a pure noble concubine or a Jia concubine, it will never be your turn." Her smile was a little weird, a little contemptuous, "Why? Are you worthy?" Ruyi looked back at her quietly: "There are only things in the world that can't be done, and there are few unexpected things, not to mention whether they are worthy or not. Today, the palace and the princess have finally become mothers and daughters in terms of status." He Jing raised his head proudly: "My mother-in-law is the concubine, and I am the eldest princess, and you are just the heir. When you start a private successor family, you have to be a concubine when you see the tablet of the first wife, so, no matter what, you can't Standing shoulder to shoulder with my queen mother." Ruyi smiled kindly, and quietly hid the blue-faced Rong Pei behind her back: "Empress Xiaoxian uses the word 'Xian' as her posthumous posthumous posthumous title. This Palace believes that no matter what, I will never get a 'Xian'." The word is a posthumous title. Neither the virtues can be compared with Empress Xiaoxian, nor the family background can be compared. This palace can only make up for it by sitting in this back seat for a long time and fulfilling the responsibilities of empress." He Jing's face suddenly changed, but hearing the sound of congratulations from all around her, she didn't dare to say anything wrong: "It's a pity...my empress mother passed away early, and my younger brother has no luck to stay in this world. You are such a poor family and you are in the back seat." She bit her lip heavily, held her cold and poisonous gaze, and suddenly sneered, "If you want to enjoy the overwhelming wealth, you must also be able to endure the greatness of the future." Misfortune. Let me see, how long will you be proud?" Ruyi looked at her young face carefully, she really looked like the Empress Xiaoxian back then.She unconsciously sighed, and said in a gentle tone: "Princess, Empress Xiaoxian insisted on marrying you to Mongolia in order to preserve your honor and avoid disasters in the palace. In this case, why don't you calm down and take care of yourself?" You must guard your marriage. You must know that now you are the princess of Mongolia, and your words and deeds are tied to the glory of Mongolia's tranquility and the Fucha clan, remember, remember!" As soon as Ruyi finished speaking, a courtesan urged her to go to the emperor's side, and only He Jingdai stood there, speechless in a daze. The sunlight was very fine and pale golden. Ruyi seemed to have traveled a long way and finally came to the emperor's side.The emperor looked at her, smiled, and stretched out his hand to her, leading her to his side. Standing beside the emperor, Ruyi felt that she was looking down on the thousands of people, watching the cheers like mountains, and the sound of congratulations was overwhelming.She has a vague illusion, as if floating in the vast clouds, and the person who will accompany her for life is by her side, but it is as unreal as a cloud that is inseparable. However, in the end it was him who brought himself here, so he didn't have to crowd around the crowd and look up.A tear flashed from the corner of Ruyi's eyes, and the emperor noticed it in time, gently held her hand, and said in a low voice, "Don't be afraid, I'm here." Ruyi nodded gently, raised her face slightly, felt the softness of the sunlight on her face, and smiled slightly.