"How can the three princesses of the Hesheli family have the temperament to be the housewives of the Niu Hulu clan? Isn't the emperor just sitting idle and doing some random things?"

Concubine Wen sat on the embroidery stool, clenched her hands into fists, bit her lower lip, and complained angrily and dissatisfied in a low voice to Aunt Du standing beside her.

"Now she is still a young girl in her early ten years. When she reaches haircut, she is old enough to marry Faka. Isn't Faka already in his early twenties! How can such two people be a good match? Ben

I will never believe that little Hershey didn’t know about this in advance!”

Xiao Niu Hulu was really angry and aggrieved by this sudden marriage grant. Unable to control her emotions, she directly punched the wooden railing in front of her with her right fist twice to vent her anger.

Little Yin'er, who was sleeping inside, was waiting to see E Niang spin the rattle for him. Who knew that the rattle was gone, and he heard E Niang's sudden increase in volume. The little baby, who is very sensitive to adults' emotions, was frightened.

, as soon as he closed his eyes, he started to cry at the top of his lungs.

When Concubine Wen heard her son's cry, she hurriedly stood up, bent down and stretched out her arms to take her son out of the crib through the wooden railing. She held little Yiner in her arms and patted his back to comfort him.

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The tenth brother is a very easy child to coax. At this moment, his mother was holding him in his arms and coaxing him. He gradually stopped crying, but Concubine Wen's face was still as gloomy as if it could drip water.

Looking at the angry look on her mother-in-law's face, Mammy Du felt deeply that their master's words were not unreasonable.

Young Master Faka's two sisters are from the same mother. One is a successor with a noble status and a mother who respects the world. The other is a concubine who raises a healthy emperor's brother. Even though the Hesheli family is the parent family of the prince,

But as one of the five founding ministers of the country, the Niu Hulu clan has a much better background than the Hesheli clan!

At present, Young Master Faka has begun to learn how to handle family affairs from the elders of the clan. Even if he is worthy of being matched with a royal family, he is betrothed to a commoner who is not valued by the Hesheli family. This is

It sounds like they are a little too wronged by their young master. If the emperor had betrothed the sister of Empress Yuan to Master Faka, I am afraid that my wife would feel better. But now that the imperial edict has been issued, it is a done deal.

I can only think of the good.

Aunt Du racked her brains and thought for a long time. After the tenth brother was coaxed to sleep by Concubine Wen, she spoke softly:

"Madam, please calm down. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Didn't you think that Master Faka's ears were a little soft before? You are afraid that he will be tightly controlled by the future Fujin and neglect the old lady. From now on

After thinking about it, I think that at least the three sisters of the Hesheli family are said to be gentle. If you have such a person as your sister-in-law, then you don't have to worry about the worries you had before."

In the process of comforting her son, Concubine Wen's rationality gradually returned. When she heard the wet nurse's words, she frowned and thought deeply for a while, then she put her mouth to the wet nurse's ear and whispered:

"Mommy, go check and see if little Heshelius had any involvement in the marriage?"

"Empress, what do you mean?"

Aunt Du heard that Concubine Wen suddenly changed the topic to Concubine Jing. She didn't understand the reason for a moment, so she couldn't help but asked quietly in confusion.

Concubine Wen carefully put her sleeping son back into the crib, covered his soft belly with a thin brocade quilt, and tugged a sneer from the corner of her mouth.

"No matter how nice little Hesheli is to the prince, she is still his aunt in the next room. Now the two sisters of the Queen are almost old enough to participate in the draft. This year's battle in the south is eighth

It's been almost three years. Wu Sangui has been dead for three years. I believe that the war between the three feudal lords will be completely settled soon. The last general election was in the tenth year of Kangxi's reign, and the general election has been suspended for so many years.

Now, why are you recovering soon?"

"It's hard for me not to believe that Concubine Jing is worried that if the emperor chooses the younger sisters of Empress Yuan to enter the palace, someone will compete with her in the harem to seize family resources. Moreover, she has raised the young prince for so long.

I definitely don’t want His Highness the Crown Prince to have the opportunity to get close to his biological aunt again, so I simply put forward the idea of ​​granting marriage to the two little girls to the Emperor in advance.”

When Mammy Du heard this, her eyes widened, wondering if her mother-in-law was thinking too much. From her observation of Concubine Jing, she didn't see how deep-minded this person was.

"Mommy, do you think you don't believe it?"

Concubine Wen saw the shocked look on her wet nurse's face and laughed sarcastically:

"Mommy, think about the rumors that Ke Jing heard near the Yongshou Palace. Until now, we haven't found out who the person behind the scenes is. Now that girl Ke Jing opens her mouth to see the empress, and shuts her mouth.

She almost regarded her little Hesheli as her direct aunt. Little Hesheli picked up a favored Princess Gu Lun for nothing. She made the biggest profit from this matter, and the Empress Yuan was running the harem.

In the past ten years, she has been in charge of palace affairs for such a long time. The power of the Hesheli family in the harem is not small at all. Don't be fooled by the carelessness shown by the little Hesheli family. If she is really

If you want to do something behind the scenes, it’s much easier than others.”

"Your Majesty, I know this. I'm going to check it out now."

After listening to her mother-in-law's complete analysis, Aunt Du couldn't help but frown tightly. She leaned towards Concubine Wen, then turned around, opened the bead curtain in the inner room with her hand, and walked out in a hurry.

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After the confidant wet nurse left, Concubine Wen lowered her head again, stretched out her slender fingers to gently touch her son's little hand, her eyes were heavy and she didn't know what she was thinking...

If Concubine Jing had a good ear and heard the seemingly logical inferences made by Concubine Wen and her servant, she would definitely shout "Little Niu", "Hulu, you really think too highly of her."

Not to mention participating in the Kangxi marriage, when Liang Jiugong handed the imperial edict to her in both hands in the afternoon, she didn't bother to read it at all, and hurriedly took her son and nephew to the inner room to change clothes.

She had to wait until Xiao Si returned to the palace at the beginning of Youshi to find out from her son that the marriage of her two cousins ​​had been blocked by Kangxi. This was not much earlier than Xiao Niu Hulu's.

At four o'clock in the morning, the heavy rain outside gradually turned into light rain, and the hall of the main hall of Chuxiu Palace was brightly lit.

Xiaosi drank a large bowl of hot ginger soup to dispel cold, sat on his mother's knees, put his arms around the concubine's neck, and muttered softly, recounting in a low voice what he had done at Hesheli Mansion in the afternoon.

What you see and hear.

"Mother, you didn't even see it when you weren't there. Eunuch Liang just finished reading the marriage decree written by Khan Amma to his two aunts. The prince brother and Guo Luomafa couldn't wake up no matter how they screamed."

His eyes suddenly opened. At that time, the prince brother and I were very happy, thinking that he was getting better. We never expected that not long after, when the eldest grandpa took the prince brother and Guo Luo

After Mafa whispered for a while, he suddenly vomited out a lot of blood and passed away. No one could wake him up anymore."

When Qingyan heard her son's words, she could recall the scene in her mind, which must have been similar to when Mafa died. Her eye circles turned red, and she patted her son's back to comfort her.

Xiao Si sniffed and pressed his little face tightly into his mother's arms. This was the first time he had witnessed the death of a person with his own eyes. It was a huge shock to him. Even though he had been back in the palace for more than an hour, he still felt

He felt that as soon as he closed his eyes, he could still hear the cries filling the room and the white flags filling the house.

"I'm actually fine. The main reason is that the prince's brother cried very sadly. He was still crying on the carriage back to the palace, and his voice was hoarse from crying."

Xiaosi blinked his eyes to force the water out of Danfeng's eyes, his voice was muffled.

Bai Lu, who was standing next to the mother and son, couldn't help but raise her hand and press the corners of her eyes when she heard Xiao Si's words.

She was planning to go outside to see if the maids had boiled the hot water, and asked Si Age to take a hot bath early to force the cold out of her body. Who knew that she almost came to the door just as she reached the main hall?

He Zhuer bumped into He Zhuer who was running over in a panic.

"He Zhu'er, what's wrong with you?"

When Bai Lu saw He Zhuer's miserable appearance without even holding an umbrella, she couldn't help but shout in surprise.

Concubine Jing and Brother Si, who were sitting in the hall, heard Bai Lu's words and turned their attention to the door.

Immediately after the mother and son, they saw He Zhuer, who was soaked by the rain from top to bottom, crossed the threshold and ran in quickly. Then he knelt down on the ground and shouted anxiously with a cry:

"My Majesty, your Majesty, please quickly follow this servant to Yuqing Palace to have a look. His Highness the Crown Prince suddenly developed a high fever at night and started talking nonsense."

"What?"

Qingyan and Xiaosi were shocked when they heard this.

Xiaosi quickly slipped off his mother's lap, and Qingyan immediately stood up from the chair, walked to He Zhuer in a few steps, stretched out her hand to pull him up, and asked eagerly:

"Please tell me clearly. Xiaosi is fine. How come Baocheng has a high fever? Didn't you give him ginger soup when he came back?"

He Zhu'er cried and said: "Mother, it's all my fault that the servants didn't take good care of Your Highness. His Highness couldn't eat anything when he came back. He accidentally got caught in the rain in the afternoon. Doctor Zhang checked His Highness's pulse and said that His Highness is

The grief in my heart was too much, and the wind and cold entered my body. I boiled the medicine and fed it. But now more than two quarters of an hour after the medicine was taken, His Highness's body temperature is getting higher and higher. The emperor's government affairs have not been finished yet.

He is losing his temper in Yuqing Palace right now, please hurry up and follow me there to have a look."

"Okay, let's go to Yuqing Palace quickly now."

Traditional Chinese medicine takes effect slowly, but high fever is not a trivial matter. If the body temperature cannot be lowered, it is possible to burn out the brain.

She couldn't wait any longer, grabbed the oil paper umbrella on the table and planned to leave the main hall.

When Xiaosi saw Concubine Jing's movements, she quickly took steps to catch up and shouted:

"Mother, I also want to visit the prince brother."

"Xiaosi, you can't go there. The wind and cold from Prince Edward are contagious. If one of you also falls ill, I don't have the energy to take care of you two at the same time."

Qingyan turned around and waved rejection to her son.

Seeing this, Bai Lu hurriedly tried to persuade her: "Brother Si, the empress is right, you are still young. Why don't I take you to take a hot bath first? Maybe after you finish bathing, His Highness the Prince's fever will subside.

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Xiao Si saw his E Niang's serious face, obviously she would never agree with his past behavior, so he had no choice but to nod his head, and stood under the eaves outside the main hall with Aunt Bai Lu, watching as E Niang and He Zhu'er supported each other.

He took the umbrella and walked quickly into the night. It wasn't until the two of them walked out of the Chuxiu Palace that Xiao Si nodded and agreed to follow Bai Lu to the West Side Hall to take a hot bath.

When Qingyan followed He Zhuer to Yuqing Palace in the south despite the autumn rain, she just entered the front yard and saw Liang Jiugong and a group of guards with swords being pressed on a long bench by strong eunuchs, soaked in the rain.

Hitting the board with a bang.

"What are you doing?"

As Qingyan walked towards the hall, she turned to He Zhuer and asked in confusion.

He Zhuer explained in a low voice with red eyes:

"Your Majesty, the Emperor got a high fever after seeing His Highness the Crown Prince return to the palace. He was angry that those of us who followed His Highness out of the palace did not take good care of the Crown Prince. Each of us was rewarded with 30 pieces of gold. The slaves' 30 pieces will be given to us after His Highness recovers.

, go to the Punishment Department to get it yourself."

When Qingyan heard the explanation, she couldn't help but pursed her lips, glanced in the direction of those who were being tortured in the rain, and then said to He Zhuer:
To be continued...