Chapter 243: A loving mother

Changchun Garden, Shouxuan Palace, and West Warm Pavilion.

Located in the middle of Yuanzi Road, it is the residence of the Queen Mother Borjijit in Changchun Garden. Borjijit is the daughter of Korqin Belecherji, the niece of the deposed queen of Shunzhi, and the granddaughter of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. After her aunt was deposed, she came to the capital from the grassland at the age of fourteen. She first hired as a concubine and made her the queen the next month.

Rather than being the queen, Borjigit was a living arrangement that balanced the relationship between the court and Mongolia. It did not attract the eyes of the emperor's husband, nor did it give birth to a child or a daughter.

Shunzhi died, Kangxi ascended the throne, honored his mother as the empress dowager, and lived in Ciren Palace. Borjigit was only 21 years old, and since then he began his long career as an empress dowager, which has been 51 years since then.

Chanting scriptures and worshiping Buddha is the most commonly used method of spending time by the empress dowager, but today's Shouxuan Palace is a bit lively. Liu Jia and Guarjia, the concubines of the fifth prince Heng Prince Yinqi, brought the eldest prince and the second prince to pay tribute to the empress dowager.

The fifth prince Yinqi was born by Concubine Yi. He was the same mother as the ninth prince. He was raised by the queen mother since childhood and had a strong relationship with his grandparents and grandchildren.

Among all the older princes, the fifth prince only studied Mandarin when he was young and did not understand Sinology. When he grew up, he learned mediocrely, which was incomparable to all brothers. Perhaps because of this, he did not have the intention of fighting for the throne and the crown prince. Like the seventh prince and the twelfth prince, he was always low-key and rarely involved in those power-minded matters.

However, in terms of treatment, the fifth prince was always no less than other princes. When he was first granted a prince in the 37th year of Kangxi, he was named Dorobel. In the 48th year of Kangxi, when he was second granted a prince, he was promoted to Prince Heshuo.

Liu Jia is the first concubine of the fifth prince. The mother of the eldest prince and the eldest prince of the prince. She is the granddaughter-in-law personally selected by the queen mother. She is gentle and gentle in nature and is very pleased by the queen mother. Although Guarjia and the fifth prince are a few years later, they are the most favored. They have given birth to four sons and one daughter. Although they only stand behind two young princes, their status in the prince mother is becoming increasingly stable.

The Big Princess is fifteenth and the Second Princess are fourteenth, both of whom are as old as flowers, and the Empress Dowager likes it very much. The Second Princess is still a little more reserved. His biological mother is a concubine, but the Big Princess often followed his mother to pay tribute to his ancestors since childhood. He is more close to his great-grandmother than respectful and chirping. Speaking of family matters, it is just how Ama cares about his ancestors, what food he has sought to offer, how diligent his brother is, how naughty his younger brother is.

The Empress Dowager likes to listen, and holds the big princess' hand and lets her sit down on the edge of the kang. Looking at the big princess' white and clean face, the Empress Dowager turned to Liu Jia and said, "I know what you think, as a mother, and be content. Ai's family loves her so much!"

Liu Jia quickly thanked her, and the big princess was still in chaos. Seeing that her sister and Guarjia were both smiling at her, she turned around and felt embarrassed. She lowered her head and said, "Old ancestor, it's not for your great-granddaughter! She is thinking about getting involved in your welfare and pointing out a good wife to my brother!"

After hearing this, the empress dowager glanced at Liu Jia and said, "What? Hongsheng fell in love with whose daughter, because he was afraid that others would not be able to choose?" Although he said gentle, he looked unhappy.

Before the election of the showgirl, even if it was the emperor's grandson, it would be unruly to interact in private. Liu Jia heard the queen mother ask this and hurriedly said, "Old ancestor, our eldest prince's character is the same as the prince. Now he is thinking about learning errands with his uncles and uncles all day long. How can he have such thoughts? It's seventeenth, and the next year is eighteen, and it is my concubine who is thinking about it. After all, he is the eldest son of the prince. It is his duty to grow up as soon as possible and give birth to the young prince!"

The Empress Dowager smiled and said, "This is reasonable. It's seventeenth, it's time to get engaged. When the Ai family pointed you to your grandfather, your grandfather was only sixteenth, and at 18th, there was Hongsheng!" At this point, he pinched his fingers and calculated, and said with a little emotion: "It's been eighteen years, just for nothing. The Ai family will worry about you again, pay attention to finding a daughter of good character to be a wife for Hongsheng."

Liu Jia thanked her again, and Guarjia felt a little uncomfortable. The second prince she gave birth to was thirteen years old, the fourth prince was eight years old, and the fourth prince was not yet very young. The second prince was good at riding and shooting equipment, and was no less than his brother. But he also knew that as long as the queen mother was there, the position of prince would not be considered.

Liu Jia went to the garden to ask the empress dowager to marry his son, and never failed to use this to stabilize his son's status. After all, in terms of origin, she is not as prominent as the Guarja; now, there is no Guarja, and the only thing she can rely on is the empress dowager's different attitude.

As my mothers were talking, a little eunuch said back and forth, saying that Mrs. Jueluo from the gentle Duke's Mansion brought her granddaughter to pay tribute to the Queen Mother.

Although the old lady's ancestor was not the legitimate branch of the gentle Duke's Mansion, she herself was the "Qingjun" from the Duke's Mansion. Her biological mother was a noble Mongolian daughter. Like the queen mother, she also came from the Korchin tribe. When it comes to relatives, she was considered the queen mother's cousin.

The empress dowager was old and was happy to see her granddaughter and great-granddaughter, but she was better off talking about nostalgia and lively to the old man. She heard that Mrs. Jueluo was coming, so she hurriedly asked someone to lead them in.

This old lady is no other person, but the mother of Gali. The one who came to the palace with her was her granddaughter Dong Ejinghui.

Regardless of whether Li Ding is really sick or false, since he had a previous move to break off the engagement, then Mrs. Jueluo would not have demoted herself and sent her granddaughter to the door, so that others could take her.

In his early years, he took his granddaughter to his son in Jiangnan to serve as a place. Mrs. Jueluo was afraid that it would be inconvenient to travel back and forth during the talent show, so she asked for grace to be exempted from the election. Now, although the matter of getting married and retiring has not been spread to the capital, it is not easy to find a family with a good match.

Although he was the granddaughter of the gentle Duke's Mansion, his grandfather was not a legitimate branch and his parents were not early. It turned out that although he could rely on his uncle Gali, Gali was busy suing Zhang Boxing, so how could he have time to worry about his niece's marriage?

Dong Ejinghui was seventeen years old the next year, and it took a year or two to get married. How could she have a baby if she delayed it? Therefore, Mrs. Luo was a little anxious and thought that it was just October's talent show and that she would point the marriage to the royal family.

Prince Beile, the old lady, didn't even think about it. She was not qualified to be a legitimate wife. If she was a side room, she would be able to make a fuss. However, Duke Zhenguo, Duke Jiao, or General Zhenguo, General Jiao Guo, and General Jiao Guo, and the title of the Granddaughter is not high or low. If she begs the Queen Mother to marry, she will probably allow her granddaughter to live in Ontario.

The old lady is a Buddhist and she is most disdainful of these powerful relationships. However, for the sake of her granddaughter's lifelong affairs, she still comes to Changchun Garden to meet the queen mother.

When Liu Jia and Guarjia saw that there was a foreign guest coming to the Empress Dowager's harem, they smiled and stood up to say goodbye. Naturally, they were inevitably auspicious words.

When they went out, Mrs. Jueluo happened to be bringing her granddaughter to come in. The big princess and the second princess saw the new girl lowered their eyebrows and looked very well-behaved. They couldn't help but take a few more glances and felt a little closer.

Liu Jia met Mrs. Jueluo at the Empress Dowager in her early years, so she recognized that she was very moved when she saw that the girl was dressed in a good manner. She thought that if her son married a lady from the Dong E family, she would be very decent. However, she could not make any decisions on her own, so she would always ask the fifth prince what she meant before making a decision.

In the western warm room, after Mrs. Jueluo entered the house, she wanted to give a great gift to the empress dowager. The empress dowager was not willing to accept it, so she hurriedly asked someone to support her and said angrily: "I haven't seen you for a few days, so you have to tell these rules. Why don't you sit down and talk quickly!" As she said that, she asked Mrs. Jueluo to sit on the kang.

Mrs. Jueluo has a slightly rigid personality. Although the empress dowager treats her kindness, she is unwilling to surpass her status. After her granddaughter pays her a greeting to the empress dowager, she sits on a chair on the ground.

After a few family matters, Mrs. Jueluo had not yet expressed the purpose of this time, she heard a sound of whips outside.

The emperor came to the Empress Dowager's harem to greet him. Mrs. Jueluo wanted to avoid it, but it was too late, so she stood up and retreated to the side with her granddaughter to wait.

Kangxi entered the warm room and greeted him again as usual, which was nothing more than "how much food did the emperor's mother eat, what was her appetite in the past two days" and so on. Although the emperor went to the Empress Dowager's harem to pay tribute every three or five days, and the emperor asked this question in this way, but it was rare that Kangxi asked very seriously every time, and the empress dowager also answered.

After paying homage, Kangxi noticed that Mrs. Jueluo was also there. When he first entered the door, Mrs. Jueluo saluted with other palace maids. Although Kangxi glanced at the corner of his eyes, because she lowered her head, she only thought that she was an ordinary relative of the foreign relatives.

I remembered that the court officials were arguing over the past few days about Gali and Zhang Boxing's case. Among them, Gali's charge was "greed". The Minister of Revenue Mu Helun, who was being tried, speculated about the thoughts of Mr. Kangxi, and thought that the emperor must have been towards the official, so he gave a conclusion that "the various documents that Zhang Boxing had participated in were false after being examined and found out. Zhang Boxing was afraid of being unable to go abroad, and instead falsely accused Zhang Yuanlong of theft without being investigated and concluded, dragging many people to death, unable to severely punish the thief, delaying the murder case, and also participated in the report, and if he had the position of a minister, he should be dismissed as the title of the title."

Kangxi was amused and laughed. Although he valued the experience of Kali, he did not believe in his ethics. Zhang Boxing was not the case. He personally assigned him, a well-known honest official. He sent several groups of people to the south of the Yangtze River, but failed to find out the evidence of Kali's greed. In the past two years, Li Xu and Sun Wen had also ordered Li Xu and Sun Wen to investigate one after another, but he did not benefit much.

Now, when she met her stepmother, Kangxi saw that her beard was half white and her face was warm, she asked, "I heard that the old lady had lived in Jiangnan for two years before, but I know why did Gali become dirty with Zhang Boxing for the sake of this?"

Mrs. Jueluo pondered for a moment and said, "If it were the affairs of the previous yamen, the old woman would not know. But since she arrived in Jiangnan, her life seemed to be getting better and better day by day. She had delicacies and delicacies, jade liquid and nectar, and her life became more and more luxurious. Even the tents hanging on the bed were woven by golden threads. The old woman believed in Buddhism and was not concerned about daily life and diet. In order to respect the old woman, she raised three hundred nuns in the mansion! "

After hearing what Mrs. Jueluo said, Kangxi changed his color suddenly. Three hundred nuns! Even the emperor's emperor did not use such a big show to show his filial piety. Besides, why hasn't the slightest news spread to him for such a thing? Do you really think that he, the emperor, can deceive him at will?

Kangxi did not stay much, and went out after talking to the empress dowager for a few more words. The rest of Mrs. Jueluo was a little confused. Although Gali was not her biological child, she was still filial to her over the years. She just responded to the situation, and every sentence was true, without any false words. She was not a fool, nor did she speak nonsense when she was confused and unconscious, but also thought about it carefully.

"There is no better mother to know his son." Mrs. Jueluo's greed is very clear over the years and has persuaded him many times, but he still does his own way. If it is because of his reasons that Zhang Boxing, who was praised by the people of Jiangnan, was dismissed from office, would be too unfair. Moreover, if this continues, his greed will grow more and more, and he may cause some trouble in the future. It would be better to take advantage of the fact that there is no major incident in front of him, quit his official career, or learn a lesson, and dare not be greedy anymore.

Although he stayed in the empress dowager for a while, Mrs. Jueluo did not mention her granddaughter again. Before the charge of Kali was confirmed, if she betrothed her granddaughter in a confused manner and then the other party repents to her snobbery, even if she did not break off the engagement, she would be afraid that Jinghui would not have a good life.

Dong E Mansion is located in Rongshi Hutong southeast of Xicheng, and is a five-entrance yard.

After returning to the mansion, Mrs. Jueluo went to the inner courtyard Buddhist temple and knelt in front of the Buddha and prayed silently. Even if she didn't want Zhang Boxing to be innocent, she wouldn't want Kali to cause trouble for life.

The old lady's face was solemn and prayed to the Buddha very devoutly, but she didn't feel any regret in her heart. If she was allowed to speak cleverly and speak nonsense, she would not be able to overcome this hurdle even if she could not get through it.

Dong E Jinghui was relieved. Although she had told her grandmother several times that she had no intention of getting married, she had always been used to being too arrogant. The old lady only thought that her granddaughter was uneasy and sad because of the resignation, and she became more and more anxious to find a good family for her granddaughter.

Sitting in front of the dressing table, Dong Ejinghui lifted the dressing box, took out a Mongolian knife, and rubbed it gently twice. He remembered the letter to his cousin's cousin's wife two months ago and replied to the news that the second master of the Cao family died of illness mentioned in the letter, sighed, and put the Mongolian knife back.
Chapter completed!