Qingyan was also surprised by what the Empress Dowager said, "How much does this person look down on the Tong family?" The sentence "The good girl raised by the Tong family cannot be afforded by the royal family" is completely to prevent the future daughter of the Tong family from entering the palace again.
The possibility is fundamentally eliminated.
She glanced at Concubine Tong who had fainted in her hands again. In addition to being full of disgust for her, she no longer even showed indifference to her. She threw Concubine Tong heavily onto Nanny Tong with a "pop", and she was at the bottom.
Aunt Tong was also knocked unconscious by the force of Concubine Tong's pressure. She closed her eyes and fainted.
Kangxi, who was standing aside, saw the master and servant, bloody and bruised, fainting on the bluestone floor in agony. He couldn't help but feel a sense of frustration and melancholy from the bottom of his heart. "Some people, some feelings, what happened after this is...
There was absolutely no way he could go back. He let out a long sigh, then raised his arms and waved his hands slightly irritably.
The people of Chengqian Palace who were kneeling on the ground also climbed up shivering from the bluestone floor with great eyesight, and then quickly lifted up Concubine Tong and Nanny Tong who had fainted on the ground, and then they were as cautious as quails.
He bowed and left.
Seeing the bright red blood stains left on the palace road, Kangxi pursed his thin lips and finally said softly to Liang Jiugong who was standing beside him:
"You go to Dr. Zhang and go to the main hall of Chengqian Palace to see them both. After Grandma Tong's injury is better, she will be sent to the Imperial Manor to keep her company with Grandma Sui. In addition, go get some better things.
Apply the analgesic ointment carefully on Xiao Liu’s body, so as not to leave any traces of bruises that will not go away in the future.”
"Yes, I will go right away."
When Liang Jiugong heard this, he hurriedly bowed down respectfully, then immediately turned around and hurried along the palace road to the imperial hospital in the southeast direction.
Hearing this, the Empress Dowager glanced at Kangxi, and did not say anything more. After all, although Concubine Tong was wrong, she was far from guilty of death.
They were all beaten until their orifices were bleeding. If Concubine Tong really died for this, then the Hesheli family and the Tong family would have a big feud. The prince's mother's family and the emperor's mother and son became enemies, and the previous dynasty was unstable...
About two-quarters of an hour later, the sky became completely dark.
Although the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner was still held as usual, most people lost interest because of Concubine Tong's incident. After enjoying the song and dance performance, appreciating the bright moon and eating some mooncakes, they took their palace mates and left.
At midnight, the cold and bright moonlight stretched the silhouettes of a group of people walking on the cobblestone path of the Imperial Garden into elongated shapes.
Because Xiaoqi and Xiaoba were young, they drooled and fell asleep halfway through the palace banquet. Tana and An Bin also used this as an excuse to leave the banquet early.
Qingyan waited until the three giants and the young prince had all left, then she took her son's hand and walked slowly to her palace.
From the corner of her eye, she noticed that Xiao Si had been drooping and looking depressed since the dinner was over. Qingyan couldn't help but shook his arm in confusion and asked:
"Xiao Si, what are you worried about? Do you need help from me?"
When Xiao Si heard the voice of Concubine Jing, he hesitated but stopped, raised his head and whispered to Concubine Jing:
"Mother, I also want to stay with Mama Huang for a while."
After Qingyan heard what he said, she couldn't help but be a little stunned. After thinking for a moment, she knelt down and looked at her son levelly, and asked speculatively:
"Are you worried about Xiaoliu?"
"Hmm, yes."
When Xiao Si heard that the imperial concubine had guessed what he was thinking, he raised his hands and put his head in his hands while gesticulating and frowning:
"Mother, you actually came a little late today and didn't see with your own eyes the way Xiao Liu raised his arms to protect his head. He was timid and young. Although he didn't speak much at the dinner, I could feel it.
He must have been frightened today."
"It's definitely a good thing that he can leave Chengqian Palace early, but I think it's too sudden for Wukuma to ask Xiao Liu to move to Shoukang Palace tonight, and Xiao Liu's mother doesn't want to
Living with him, I think he would probably be too scared to sleep at night."
Xiao Si seemed to have encountered a problem and said in a tangled manner.
Qingyan couldn't help but sigh when she heard this. Then she pinched the soft flesh on her son's cheek, stood up and said:
"Is this a big deal for you? I'm going to go to Shoukang Palace with you right now. Your Queen Mother likes you quite a lot, but in the final analysis, it depends on you whether she is willing to take you in for a while or not.
It’s your own ability.”
When Xiao Si heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. Then he nodded, confidently patted his chest and said:
"Mom, don't worry. I have the sweetest mouth. I will definitely coax the Queen Mother into confusion. She will be reluctant to let me back when the time comes. Don't think about me and won't be able to sleep until the time comes.
Xiaoliu is familiar with Shoukang Palace, I will rush back to accompany you immediately."
When Qingyan heard Xiao Si praising herself for having a "sweet mouth", she couldn't help but burst out laughing. She stroked her son's curly hair in a funny way, and then the mother and son walked west, laughing and talking.
After the people from Chuxiu Palace had gone away, Wu Yashi, who was holding a broom in her hand, slowly walked out from behind a rockery. She first waited quietly for a short while where Xiao Si had just stood.
, and then limped back to Jingqi Pavilion to the east.
Near the end of the Xu period, the bright moon hung high in the night sky, and the entire Forbidden City fell silent.
In an inner room in the backyard of Chuxiu Palace, dim candlelight swayed on the lotus candlestick beside the bed.
Tong Guiren, who missed the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner due to the cold, has been lying on the bed in a daze since taking the medicine. At this time, as if trapped in a nightmare, he kept mumbling weakly and vaguely, "
Xiaoliu, I am not an aunt, I am a mother."
Sitting on the embroidery stool next to the bed, the eldest palace maid Shuang'er, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, was wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief. When she heard her mistress talking in her sleep, she just stood up from the embroidery stool and was about to step forward to take a look.
Look, just after hearing the scream of "ah", I saw Tong Guiren sitting up straight from the bed with sweat on his face.
"My lord, my lord, are you okay?"
After a moment of shock, Shuang'er saw Tong Guiren's face bursting with tears, and hurriedly stepped forward, patted her back and asked softly soothingly.
The young master of her family has never had a full night's sleep since she gave birth to her sixth elder brother during the Lantern Festival last year. During the confinement period, she cried and worried almost all day long because of the sixth elder brother's condition.
The emperor could not tolerate the sixth elder brother. Because he did not have a good confinement period, his body became much weaker after the birth.
Even if she wanted to go to the front yard to see her sixth brother more, even without Concubine Tong's obstruction, most of the time she would be powerless. She would be sick every three days because she cried too much, and her eyesight also declined a lot.
, the eyesight becomes difficult to use at a young age.
As the eldest maid who has been serving Tong Guiren since she was a child, Shuang'er has seen all this and feels very sorry for her mistress. She has had countless thoughts in her heart about how unworthy it is for her mistress to have the sixth brother.
, now she wants to beat herself to death when she thinks of her little master's trust in her.
Tong Guiren held the thin brocade quilt on his body tightly with his hands, shook his head to disperse the nightmare, then swallowed his saliva and gradually calmed down his mind. He just turned around and was about to let Shuang'er
He gave her some water to moisten her throat. When she saw the red and swollen eyes of her confidant, she couldn't help but shook her head and laughed hoarsely:
"Shuang'er, why are you doing this? I've already said that I don't regret giving birth to Xiaoliu, so you shouldn't be sad because I'm hurt anymore."
When Shuang'er heard this, he couldn't hold back his tears anymore. He hurriedly lifted his steps and left the bed, and then with a "plop", he knelt heavily on the ground, stretched out his hands and "papapapa" with tears in his eyes.
Got two slaps on the face.
When Tong Guiren saw her action, he immediately rushed to the door. He coughed twice to hold back the itching in his throat and asked in surprise:
"Shuang'er, what are you doing? Get up quickly."
"My little master and slave are guilty."
Shuang'er burst into tears in annoyance and said: "Little Master, it's all my fault that I'm blind and deaf, and not meticulous in my work. Every time I went to the front yard to visit Brother Six on your behalf, I couldn't find anything wrong with him. If I were the slave,
I don’t have any complaints against my sixth elder brother in my heart. If I pay more attention to him, I won’t let Concubine Tong continue to abuse our sixth elder brother secretly without fear.”
"What? What did you say? Xiaoliu was abused by the elder sister?"
Hearing this, Tong Guiren was completely dumbfounded. After a heart-wrenching cough, he hurriedly prepared to get out of bed. However, because the cold had not healed yet and his body was too weak, he rolled away from the bed as soon as he bent down.
Come down.
Shuang'er was also busy crying, kneeling forward and helping her to sit up, biting her lower lip and said:
"My little master, your hearing has never been a problem. Before, when you were lying in bed, you often said that you heard the sixth elder brother crying in the main hall. At that time, I foolishly thought that you missed the sixth elder brother too much, so you
I had an auditory hallucination. Today, the fourth elder brother, the prince, and the eldest elder brother unexpectedly discovered that Concubine Tong had secretly been pinching our little master's flanks to vent her anger!"
"Xiao Liu, I want to see Xiao Liu."
Tong Guiren was completely stunned at this moment and couldn't listen to anything. Thinking of the nightmare she had just had, Xiao Liu lay quietly in the small coffin with a pale face. Her eyes turned blood red in an instant, and her heart was filled with tears.
To save Xiao Liu's life, a surge of strength suddenly surged in her body. She stretched out her hand to push Shuang'er away, stumbled up from the ground, picked up the feather duster in the big vase and stumbled to the ground.
The feet ran out of the inner room.
"Little Master! Sixth Brother is no longer in Chengqian Palace."
Shuang'er saw Tong Guiren looking like he was going crazy, and his heart jumped suddenly. He quickly raised his sleeves to wipe his tears, got up and ran out.
The maids guarding the entrance to the main hall in the front yard, under the illumination of the palace lanterns on the eaves above their heads, saw Tong Guiren with messy black hair soaked in sweat, wearing goose-yellow pajamas, with bare feet, and carrying a menacing
The feather duster ran towards them, his eyelids twitched, and as soon as he stretched out his hand to stop them, Tong Guiren, who seemed to be in a state of madness, slapped the duster on the head fiercely, and then they both fell to the ground in pain.
The palace people standing in the hall heard the commotion and were about to go out to take a look, when they saw Tong Guiren crossing the threshold and rushing in, shouting "Xiao Liu" in a hoarse voice, and hitting everything he saw.