Chapter 275 Jia Yun meets Queen Yin for the first time
afternoon.
Jia Yun rode to the palace on horseback. After entering the palace, he walked outside the Qianqing Gate, which is the dividing line between the outer court and the inner court of the palace. Jia Yun is very familiar with this place. He has been to Qianqing Palace many times, and he has done so before. The first-class imperial guard. However, today, when Jia Yun came here, he had a different mood, because today he would enter the harem for the first time.
"I have met the prince."
Xia Shouzhong, who was waiting outside the Qianqing Gate in advance, saw Jia Yun coming and greeted him with a smile, his expression and tone were a little respectful. Now Jia Yun has made him, the eunuch of the Sixth Palace, willing to treat him with respect. .
Xia Shouzhong is the eunuch of the Sixth Palace. The so-called eunuch of the Sixth Palace is the eunuch in charge of the harem. "Sixth Palace" refers to the East Sixth Palace and the West Sixth Palace. Obviously, this position is not simple. Among all the eunuchs in the palace, Xia Shouzhong's His status and power are among the best, but he is inferior to Qiu Shi'an, the eunuch in charge of the palace next to Emperor Tianzhi.
When she was granted the title of imperial concubine in Yuanchun, it was Xia Shouzhong who went to Rongguo Mansion to deliver the imperial edict.
This time, Xia Shouzhong was also responsible for Jia Yun's visit to the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and Qing Wan in the harem.
"I've met Eunuch Xia."
Jia Yun responded to Xia Shouzhong's greeting with a smile. Jia Yun would not neglect this eunuch of the Sixth Palace easily. Let alone him, even Xia Yi would show some respect in front of Xia Shouzhong. Jia Yun If you offend Xia Shouzhong, you will inevitably get into trouble. For example, if you enter the harem, you will face difficulties; for example, Xia Shouzhong gives him eye drops in front of the queen, the emperor's concubine, and the concubine...
There are clocks in the world of Red Mansions. In the original novel, Jia Baoyu has a gold watch.
At this moment, Xia Shouzhong took out a walnut-sized gold watch from his arms, took a look at it, and smiled at Jia Yun: "The emperor said that Prince Shen Shishi would start visiting, and Shen Shi would leave at three quarters. Although there is still a little time left before the visit. At the beginning of the Shen Dynasty, taking advantage of this little time, I will take the prince to wait outside Ningshou Palace, so that the prince can have more time to meet the empress dowager, empress and concubine Duan. I know that today is still the prince. When meeting Concubine Duan for the first time, mother and son must have a lot to say, and this time cannot be wasted."
Jia Yun's time to visit the harem this time is strictly limited. The whole journey is only three-quarters of an hour. It starts at Shenshi and leaves at three-quarters of Shenshi, that is, it starts at three o'clock in the afternoon and leaves at three forty-five. The whole journey here includes Time for entering and exiting the harem. Today, Jia Yun has to visit the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and Qingwan. The Empress Dowager lives in the Ningshou Palace area on Palace East Road. It can be said that this time is tight.
Xia Shouzhong's words now have a meaning to please Jia Yun, which means that before Shen Shishi, he should take Jia Yun to Ningshou Palace area first, so that he can save some time for Jia Yun to visit.
Jia Yun smiled knowingly: "Thank you so much, Eunuch Xia."
Immediately, Xia Shouzhong took Jia Yun and walked towards the Ningshou Palace area on East Road. Behind them were dozens of eunuchs. The main task of these eunuchs was actually to guard Jia Yun.
On the way, Jia Yun approached Xia Shouzhong, smiled and said softly: "I have to worry about Eunuch Xia today. I don't know when Eunuch Xia will be free. I would like to treat Eunuch Xia as a host in the palace."
Xia Shouzhong smiled knowingly: "The affairs in the palace are busy. Except for the day of rest, I usually have no time until night. If the prince really wants to ask me to be my host, he can wait for my day of rest, or at night."
Jia Yun smiled and said: "In that case, it is better to choose a day than to hit the sun. I will set up this host in the palace tonight and ask Eunuch Xia to come over."
He had just returned to Beijing today. It was inevitable that he had some things to be busy with, and it was inevitable that some people would come to visit Wujun Prince Daoxi. Even so, he decisively chose to invite Xia Shouzhong as his host tonight, and showed his love for Xia Shouzhong in front of Xia Shouzhong.
Although Jia Yun didn't want to become a real friend with someone like Xia Shouzhong, she still wanted to create some intimacy with him.
Later in the original work, an eunuch Xia sent a young eunuch to the Rongguo Mansion to extort two hundred taels of silver. This was not the first time. Before this, this eunuch Xia had already extorted 1,200 taels of silver from the Rongguo Mansion.
The eunuch Xia here should refer to Xia Shouzhong.
Later in the original work, in addition to Xia Shouzhong, other eunuchs blackmailed the Rongguo Mansion, which made Wang Xifeng depressed. Jia Lian smiled and said: "When did this evil start?"
It can be seen that Xia Shouzhong is bold and greedy.
Jia Yun doesn't mind spending some money to build a close relationship with Xia Shouzhong. Of course, if this Xia Shouzhong dares to blackmail him greedily in the future, then he will no longer be polite to Xia Shouzhong.
In fact, if Jia Yun had not made great military exploits in the south of the Yangtze River, been awarded the title of Prince Zhongwu, and was allowed by Emperor Tianzhi to enter the harem to visit the empress dowager, the empress, Duan Fei Qingwan, Xia Shouzhong would not have shown any respect to Jia Yun Gu today.
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At this time, Jia Yun and Xia Shouzhong arrived at the Ningshou Palace area together, and it was still a little while before they arrived at Shen Shishi. The two waited outside the palace area for a while before Xia Shouzhong entered the palace area to report back.
After the Emperor learned that Jia Yun was coming, he asked Xia Shouzhong to bring Jia Yun to him first. After meeting him, he praised Jia Yun's performance in rebelling against Jiangnan. Then Jia Yun came to the Empress Dowager.
Emperor Kangxing had a total of three queens. The first two queens died in Kunning Palace. Now the empress dowager is the third queen of Emperor Kangxing. Although she is only the third queen, she is considered the third queen.
The most noble among the queens, because she became the empress dowager, and also because she was the biological mother of Emperor Tianzhi!
Obviously, the Empress Dowager is also old. Although her health is not as bad as that of the Supreme Emperor, it is not very good either, so she does not take care of things much.
Jia Yun had met the Empress Dowager once before, and the meeting at that time was very short. He could clearly feel that the Empress Dowager didn't care much about him, the sixth grandson of the Emperor who had appeared halfway. The reason was that the Empress Dowager's favorite grandson was
Xia Hao, she originally liked Xia Xu, but Jia Yun suddenly replaced Xia Xu. Although the Queen Mother knew that Xia Xu deserved his punishment, it was still difficult for her to feel affection for Jia Yun, the new grandson of the emperor who had not been taken care of by her since childhood.
Today, Jia Yun met the Empress Dowager for the second time. The situation was similar to the first time. The Empress Dowager still didn't have much affection for him, and the meeting was still very short. Even for Jia Yun's great achievements in rebelling against Jiangnan, the Empress Dowager did not even praise him.
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Jia Yun is inevitably depressed about this, but naturally this depression will not show up and is hidden deep in her heart.
After meeting the Supreme Emperor and the Empress Dowager, Jia Yun returned to the Qianqing Gate under the leadership of Xia Shouzhong and the guard of dozens of eunuchs.
There is a door on the east side of Qianqing Gate, called Neizuo Gate, which leads to the East Sixth Palace.
Before entering the inner left gate, Xia Shouzhong said to Jia Yun solemnly: "My lord, you often go to the palace, and you have also served as a first-class guard in the inner court. Naturally, you know the rules of the inner court very well. It's just that. , today is your first time entering the harem, don’t blame me for talking too much, I still need to remind you about the rules."
Jia Yun smiled and said: "Eunuch Xia may give you orders, but I will be patient."
Xia Shouzhong nodded and immediately told Jia Yun some rules.
After being told the rules, Xia Shouzhong led Jia Yun into the inner left gate and walked along a road to the East Sixth Palace. At this time, dozens of following eunuchs were already on strict guard, and some eunuchs stepped forward to clear the way. To prevent Jia Yun from seeing the female relatives outside Zhongcui Palace, some eunuchs surrounded Jia Yun tightly. Even Xia Shouzhong was particularly wary of Jia Yun.
Such a formation made Jia Yun feel like a prisoner being escorted. Dozens of eunuchs were the officers and soldiers escorting him, and Xia Shouzhong was the officer leading the officers and soldiers.
Jia Yun was not depressed because of this, thinking that this kind of thing was reasonable. He just couldn't help but feel that being a prince also had its troubles. One of the troubles was that it was not easy to enter the palace to visit his biological mother.
After walking along the road inside the inner left gate for a while, another gate appeared. After passing this gate, they entered the harem area. Under the escort of Xia Shouzhong and the eunuchs, Jia Yun passed through this gate, and then passed through it one after another. He built two palaces, namely Jingren Palace and Chengqian Palace. These two palaces are one of the Six Eastern Palaces. Each palace is occupied by the concubines of Emperor Tianzhi, and there are several people living in each palace. There are also many concubines and palace maids living there.
Because everyone in Jingren Palace and Chengqian Palace had learned about Jia Yun's arrival in advance, and the eunuchs were now taking strict precautions, Jia Yun had also been told by Xia Shouzhong that she needed to lower her head when walking here. He raised his head and looked around. So when Jia Yun passed by Jingren Palace and Chengqian Palace, not even a single maid could be seen, let alone concubines.
After passing Jingren Palace and Chengqian Palace, the next palace is the Zhongcui Palace located in the northernmost part of the East Sixth Palace, which is the residence of the current queen.
At this time, Jia Yun came to the Zhongcui Gate of Zhongcui Palace. Xia Shouzhong said to Jia Yun: "Your Majesty, please wait here. Don't move or look around. I'll go in first and report to the Queen."
Jia Yun smiled and said, "Thank you, Eunuch Xia."
Xia Shouzhong walked into Zhongcui Gate, while Jia Yun was waiting outside, being strictly guarded by the eunuchs. Some of the eunuchs stared at him like a magnifying glass. He did not move, or even look around, let alone move at this time. , even if he just looked around, he would be caught by the eunuch. Although he was inevitably a little curious, he would not be so stupid that he would break the rules and anger Emperor Tianzhi because of this curiosity.
After a while, Xia Shouzhong came out: "Your Majesty, the Queen asked me to take you in."
Jia Yun smiled and nodded, then followed Xia Shouzhong into Zhongcui Gate.
Zhongcui Palace is located in a second courtyard. In addition to the Zhongcui Palace, this second courtyard also has an apse and some side halls. Logically speaking, such a second courtyard usually has to accommodate several concubines. However,
Since this place is owned by Queen Yin, only Queen Yin lives here and no other concubines live here.
The first thing Jia Yun came to was the front yard. There was a main hall in the front yard. This main hall was Zhongcui Palace, and Queen Yin lived in this palace.
There were several maids guarding outside the palace. When they saw Xia Shouzhong leading Jia Yun, these maids couldn't help but peek at Jia Yun. They were all peeking, and none of them dared to look directly.
Jia Yun followed Xia Shouzhong into the palace and came to the bright room. She saw a middle-aged beauty who looked a little like an old lady but still had charm sitting on a throne with a screen. She was obviously Queen Yin.
There were many palace maids standing in the palace. Some of these palace maids were beautiful, some were of average appearance, but none of them were ugly. The clothes they wore were naturally unusual and looked gorgeous. When Jia Yun walked into the palace, these palace maids also took a peek.
It’s Jia Yun.
Jia Yun has admired Queen Yin for a long time. As early as when he was studying Jing's martial arts, he knew about the relationship between Jing Zhanyao and Queen Yin, and about Jing Zhanyao's brother Jing Zhanrong.
, the first wife he married was the sister of Queen Yin. At first, Jia Yun secretly thought in her heart, wondering if she would have the chance to meet Queen Yin in this life. Today, she actually did.
"My son, please pay homage to your mother!" Jia Yun bowed respectfully to Queen Yin, who was sitting on the throne on the ground screen in front of her.
"Ping Shen." Queen Yin said with a smile.
Jia Yun stood up, but did not raise her head, her head was still lowered.
"Raise your head." Queen Yin smiled.
Only then did Jia Yun raise her head and see clearly the noble lady in front of her.
At this moment, Queen Yin had two thoughts in her mind. The first thought was that the new sixth prince looked really heroic, heroic and majestic. The second thought was that Jia Yun and Qingwan had similar looks.
Empress Yin did not speak out these two thoughts, but said: "I heard that you made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion in Jiangnan, and for this reason, you were granted the title of Prince Zhongwu by the emperor. I am very happy and congratulated."
Jia Yun hurriedly became humble, and the humble words he spoke were similar to the humble words he had spoken in front of Emperor Tianzhi before. The general meaning was that he had only made a great contribution to the end of the world, and what he was happy about was that he had not let down Tianzhi.
Emperor Zhi's entrustment to him did not disappoint Emperor Tianzhi, and did not cause the Qing Dynasty to be severely damaged. Jia Yun did not forget to say: "This matter is not only a great blessing to my father, but also a great blessing to my mother.
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Queen Yin asked: "What does this matter have to do with me? Why is it thanks to me?"
Jia Yun smiled slightly: "My father is the emperor of the day, and he has great blessings all over the world, and my mother, as the empress who honors the world, also has great blessings. The great blessings of my father and my mother are all related to the luck of our Qing Dynasty. This time Jiangnan will be able to
The suppression of the rebellion is due to the strong luck of our Qing Dynasty. This luck is related to the great fortune of the mother, so naturally the mother's contribution is also due."
Queen Yin laughed when she heard this: "Shi'er, you are quite eloquent."
Jia Yun smiled slightly: "My son hopes to please his mother. Only when his mother is happy will my son be happy."
Queen Yin nodded, and then asked some questions about Jia Yun's rebellion against Jiangnan, and then praised her a few words, and then asked about what happened before Jia Yun was recognized as the prince by Emperor Tianzhi...