At the beginning of noon, the imperial concubine finished her busy work at the Princess Academy. She just took Bai out of the North Fifth Academy and saw that the fine snow falling from the sky had gradually accumulated a thick layer on the palace road. Her hands were so cold that she didn’t know when.

The eunuchs, who were red and covered in frostbite, were cleaning the snow on the palace roads with big brooms in their hands.

The palace road is paved with bluestone slabs, and people come and go during the day. If the snow on it is not shoveled clean, it is easy for someone to slip and fall.

When the palace people slipped, they could just pat their butts and complain about "bad luck" before getting up, but what if they fell down and fell down?

Therefore, even though the snowflakes in the sky were flying tightly and the snow on the ground could not be swept away at all, the palace people still hurriedly cleared the snow.

Qingyan was wearing a thick orange-red cloak inlaid with soft white fox fur. She still felt that the cold wind was blowing against her, which made her unable to open her eyes, let alone the palace ladies who were only wearing ordinary winter robes.

She sniffed, turned her head and whispered to Bai Lu beside her:

"Lu, when you have nothing to do in the afternoon, take the time to go to the Imperial Hospital in the south and ask Doctor Zhang to prepare some medicine packages to prevent wind and cold and give them to the people in the dining room. Let them cook a few big pots every day for the palace people.

Share some drinks, I think it will be quite cold this winter."

"Okay, Master, this slave has remembered."

Bai Lu, who was walking beside her, smiled and nodded, understanding the master's intention. It would be even more troublesome if the palace people were sick and then infected the master while serving.

The two masters and servants supported each other and stepped carefully on the slightly slippery palace road, walking non-stop to the west. As soon as they reached the entrance of Chuxiu Palace, they heard a familiar little milky voice coming from behind.

"Empress Huang!"

Qingyan and Bai Lu followed the sound and looked back, and saw little Yiner wrapped in a golden cloak and being held in Zhang Tianxi's arms.

Knowing that Xiao Yiner was out of school from Nansan No. 3 Enlightenment School, Qingyan hurriedly smiled and waved to the two of them.

"Xiao Shi, are you cold?"

The road was slippery in the snow. When Zhang Tianxi walked to the imperial concubine with his tenth brother in his arms, Qingyan easily took the little breast dumpling into her arms, touched Xiao Yiner's hand and felt the warmth, laughing.

asked.

"It's not cold. Eunuch Zhang has taken care of me very well."

Wrapped in a cloak like a fat golden rice dumpling, little Yoonge revealed only a pair of bright black eyes, grinning in a sweet voice.

"As long as it's not cold, let's go back to the main hall for dinner. Little Thirteen and Little Fourteen must be running around in the hall."

Qingyan hugged Xiao Shi, crossed the threshold of the palace and walked straight to the main hall.

Bai Lu and Zhang Tianxi turned around and went to the small kitchen to pass the food around.

When the first and second children entered the warm hall, they saw Kangxi sitting cross-legged on the soft couch by the window, holding a thick red-covered book in his hand, frowning slightly, as if he had encountered something difficult.

It was like a kid, wandering in a daze.

The twins, wearing open cotton trousers and diapers, sat face to face on the wool carpet under the soft couch with their short legs spread apart.

The two little brothers placed their toys all over the floor like they were setting up a stall selling vegetables. Tsarist matryoshka dolls that were about the same height as them were taken out layer by layer by the twins and surrounded by their little bodies.

In a circle, there is not even a place to set foot within a radius of two meters.

When Qingyan saw this, she couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth slightly, and she bent down and put Xiao Shi in her arms on the ground.

The little maids standing at the door of the hall hurriedly stretched out their arms to help the imperial concubine and the tenth prince take off their cloaks, and gently patted the fine snow on their clothes with their hands.

Hearing the noise coming from the door, Kangxi, who was freeing his mind, and the twins, who were having a great time, both turned their heads and looked south.

Seeing E Niang and Brother Shi coming back, Little Thirteen and Little Fourteen's big eyes lit up. Little Thirteen put the blocks in his hands on the carpet, shouted "Uh, Uh" and pressed them with his little hands.

He landed on the ground, smiled and waddled towards the door like a little duck.

The fourteenth child casually threw away the blocks in his hand, got up from the carpet, and screamed "Cool, cool", followed his brother, and ran towards the door with one step at a time.

Kangxi hung his two long legs under the soft couch, and was about to bend down to pick up the dragon boots placed on the footrest to put them on, when he was shocked to find that the naughty twins had stuffed their blocks in without him noticing.

In his own boots, the bright yellow dragon boots were bulging.

Liang Jiugong, who was standing next to the soft couch, saw the emperor glaring at him, and hurriedly bent down to take out the blocks from the dragon boots one by one, and then put the boots on Kangxi's feet.

The actions of the twin brothers were so blatant. When the fourteenth brother was stuffing his blocks into the dragon boots, he directly raised his short arms and shook the blocks in his little hands towards the emperor. The emperor didn't even notice.

Say a word, the Zajia thought that the emperor saw it and acquiesced to the twins' actions! The emperor didn't even see it, wuwuwu, the Zajia felt aggrieved!

No matter how the confidant eunuch beside me is doing it in my heart.

Kangxi put the red-sealed booklet in his hand into his arms, raised his legs and walked towards the door.

Qingyan walked up to Kangxi with her three children, leaned over to him with a smile and said:

"Why did the Emperor come here without saying a word?"

"Yan'er, I just came from Madam Huang. She told me something in the morning. I'm a little unsure about it. I want to hear your opinion."

Kangxi touched little Yiner's head and explained to Qingyan, then he picked up the back collar of a little milk baby and turned around and walked to the huanghuali wood dining table in the side hall.

The twins, who were already accustomed to being carried around by their Khan Ama, kicked up their short legs in the air. When they found that they could not reach the ground, they swayed back and forth on a swing. The next moment, their Khan Ama,

One table at a time, all stuffed into the toddler dining table and unable to move.

When Qingyan heard this, she couldn't help but blinked in confusion. For a moment, she couldn't figure out what difficulties they would face when they just returned to the palace.

At this moment, Bai Lu and Zhang Tianxi also walked into the dining hall with the palace attendants who were carrying the meal.

Qingyan didn't want to go hungry and listen to Kangxi's chatter, so she took Xiao Shi to the mahogany washbasin shelf by the wall and washed her hands with warm water and Western soap with her hands crossed.

Then he also placed Xiao Ten on his toddler dining table.

After the palace maids wiped their chubby little hands clean with wet handkerchiefs, the twins, like the tenth brother beside them, wore the same light blue rice bags around their necks, and their nannies fed them bite by bite.

Glutinous rice.

Little Yin'er, who was also sitting at the children's dining table, held a small silver spoon in his left hand and small chopsticks in his right hand. He used the special small tableware to make Huhu live happily, and ate his nutritious meal deliciously without raising his head.

After washing his hands, Kangxi sat face to face with the imperial concubine and began to use chopsticks to eat.

About half an hour later, the waiters removed the leftovers and cleared the table. The twins, who had eaten and drank enough, were the first to lean back on the chairs, tilted their furry little heads, and yawned.

Xiao Yiner, who had been in class all morning, also looked sleepy.

Qingyan waved her hand to the palace people to take the three brothers to the inner room to sleep.

She and Kangxi were still sitting on the carved chairs facing each other, drinking digestion tea in their hands.

The imperial concubine lowered her head and took a few sips of tea. When she saw Kangxi across from him looking dazed again, she was really curious and couldn't help but ask:

"Your Majesty, what do you want to tell me?"

Kangxi put down the tea for digestion in his hand, raised his hand to wipe his face deeply, and waved away the palace people gathered in the side hall.

When only he and Qingyan were left in the side hall, Kangxi took out the thick red-covered book from his arms, handed it to the imperial concubine across the dining table, and said:

"Yan'er, you can see for yourself. After the morning court, when I took Liu Yushi and Li Zhuguan to pay respects to the Queen Mother, she gave it to me."

When Qingyan heard this, she was a little confused again.

The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics.

Kangxi would definitely not take the initiative to take officials to see the Empress Dowager. Since the imperial censor and the living official followed Kangxi to Cining Palace, it must have been the Empress Dowager's request.

But then again, since Kangxi took over the throne, the Empress Dowager has not seen courtiers for many years, so why does she suddenly want to see the censor and the living official?

It has to be said that Qingyan's curiosity was peaked by Kangxi's words. She quickly put the blue and white porcelain tea cup in her hand on the table, reached out and took the red-sealed booklet, opened the cover and read the content on the first page. She was surprised.

The ground's eyes widened.

"Your Majesty, why did Madam Huang divide all her dowry and the contents of her private treasury between Baocheng and Fulana?"

To put it another way, it is like the old people in future generations distributing inheritance to the younger generations in advance. It feels a bit unlucky no matter what.

In the harem of Emperor Taizong of Shengjing at that time, there were three aunts and nephews of Horqin Borzigit.

Empress Zhezhe (Empress Xiaoduanwen) of the middle palace is the biological aunt of Concubine Chen Hailanzhu and Concubine Zhuang Bumubutai.

Queen Zhezhe only had three princesses who were married to Mongolia, and the eighth prince born to Concubine Chen died early.

When the two died, their dowry and property were handed over to their niece/sister Zhuang Fei Bumu Butai, who had the ninth elder brother Fulin.

When the Qing army entered the country later, the Manchus gained great wealth.

The Empress Dowager has gone through four dynasties, including Nurhaci, Huang Taiji, Fulin, and Xuan Ye, and has been running the business for a lifetime. You can imagine how much stuff she has in her private treasury. I am afraid that even Kangxi's private treasury is not as wealthy as the Empress Dowager.

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Distributing such a large amount of wealth to great-grandsons and great-granddaughters, even if these juniors only get a small share, the property they get can fill up their small treasury.

Kangxi sighed, touched the short black stubble on his upper lip with his hand, looked at the glass window on the north wall, and said quietly;

"Mother Huang told me that she wanted to take advantage of the fact that her arms and legs can still move, and her mind is clear, to separate this thing early, so that she won't have to kick her legs in the future, and we will deal with the private treasury she left behind.

Difficult."

"Not only Baoqing, Baocheng, Fulana and the others have it, but the second brother, Chang Ning, and Longxi's children also all have something to share."

While listening to Kangxi's words, Qingyan lowered her head and continued to read back.

"Baocheng and Kejing were both direct children, so they had the most things to share, followed by the twins. Madam Huang said that they were the first twins in the royal family and the youngest children, so they were given the share.

There are a lot of things.”

Kangxi stretched out his right hand to pick up the digestion tea on the table, lowered his head and took a sip.

Qingyan saw that there were indeed many unique treasures. Baocheng and Kejing didn't give them to them. They were all dragged away by the Empress Dowager to the twins' small treasury. She also understood that the two brothers probably still took advantage of them.

of blessing.

"Then there are Xiao Si and Xiao Ten. One of them has a jade certificate in your name, and the other is the son of a noble concubine. He is of noble birth. The two brothers share a lot of property."

"Following the five of them are Baoqing and Fulana, and then Yinzhi, Mo Yaqi, Xiaowu, Xiaoliu and others are divided according to their positions. By the way, Xiaotwelve compares

What's special is that Queen Mother said that he was raised in her Cining Palace after all, so she gave Yinzhen the same amount of property as his eldest brother and eldest sister."

"Most of the things written in the first half of the book are reserved for the princes and princesses in the palace, and the things written in the back are left by the Queen Mother to my nephews and nieces. They are all based on their status as concubines in the palace.

To divide.”

"Mother Huang is really impartial. She noticed everyone without missing a beat."
To be continued...