Kangxi felt a severe headache when he thought of the incompatible situation between him and the little Hesheli family. This time, he was really in a dilemma!
He raised his arm and rubbed his forehead with his fingertips for a while. When he felt that the pain on his forehead was gone, he put down his hand. He frowned slightly and said to Doctor Zhang who was standing on the ground:
"Master, please go down first. Starting from tomorrow, you will go to Chuxiu Palace every day to ask for a safe pulse for the imperial concubine, and help her take good care of the pregnancy. I will leave the emperor's concubine's belly to you."
"Yes, we ministers obey the order."
After listening to Kangxi's words, Dr. Zhang instantly felt as if a huge mountain was pressing on his shoulders. It was so heavy that he wanted to kneel on the ground and cry.
He is self-aware. Even if his medical skills are pretty good, he would not be able to enter the delivery room if he were not a midwife. And various emergencies may occur when the imperial concubine gives birth. He is a human and not a god, so why not
There is no way to guarantee that the birth of the imperial concubine will go smoothly!
Alas, the emperor was really unsure when he entrusted himself with such a high-risk job.
Doctor Zhang was worried, and he bowed to Kangxi respectfully, then bowed gently and left.
After Doctor Zhang left, Kangxi still didn't feel sleepy at all.
He closed his eyes and leaned on the head of the bed, turning the jade ring on his finger with a slight irritation, making a "click, click" sound.
On the side of the bed is a gilt copper candlestick in the shape of a crane with wings and neck raised. On the candlestick is a bright candle covered with a glass lampshade.
The flickering candlelight illuminated Kangxi's face in a dark and unclear manner. Liang Jiugong, who was guarding the door of the inner room, also knew that the emperor was deeply upset.
He also breathed shallowly, not daring to make any extra noise. Faint sighs followed by helpless sighs came from the dragon bed...
The next day was a sunny day with a bright sun.
At the end of Mao Shi, it’s early morning.
After a good night's sleep, Qingyan's eyelids moved as she slept deeply, and then she slowly opened her eyes, her mind gradually clearing up, and her dreams from last night began to become blurry.
She reached out and reached into the thin brocade quilt covering her body, and gently stroked her slightly pregnant belly.
Reminding me of a vaguely remembered dream sequence, two faceless baby dolls wearing crotchless pants, holding pacifiers and short hands and feet, were crawling around on the ground, babbling and communicating sweetly with little baby sounds.
Although Qingyan couldn't understand what they were saying, she could feel their liveliness, health and happiness.
This was enough for her. She had a good night's dream, which was a good sign, and Qingyan's worries were reduced a lot.
When she sat up from the bed and looked down at her belly, she couldn't help but have a soft smile on her lips. She felt that the two babies in her belly were still very well-behaved.
He retched himself to show their presence, and he didn't even feel the slightest bit happy. I was afraid he would have to wait until his belly got bigger to realize that he was pregnant!
Bai Lu, who was sitting outside, heard the movement in the inner room and realized that her mother-in-law had woken up. She hurriedly greeted a few maids and walked into the inner room carrying silver basins and toiletries.
After washing up, Qingyan refused the maid to put makeup on her, and simply asked the maid to comb her hair before walking out of the inner room without a face.
Xiao Si, who was sitting at the dining table in the side hall, peeling tea eggs, saw the imperial concubine approaching from the corner of his eye, and immediately turned around happily and shouted:
"Mom, come and have a meal quickly. I'll peel off all the eggshells."
"Ah! Xiaosi is really capable!"
Qingyan didn't expect that Xiaosi would come to her main hall so early because it was a rare day off and she couldn't get a good sleep.
"Mother, please sit down quickly."
Xiaosi stood up from the chair and helped the imperial concubine sit on the carved chair like a fragile glass doll. He also pushed all the tea eggs that he had peeled off and put in the small saucer to Qingyan's side.
"Mom, hurry up and eat, and I'll peel it off myself."
Qingyan looked at her son's cautious movements towards her, and couldn't help but feel dumbfounded. She was pregnant and not disabled, so why did she need Xiaosi to be like this? But after all, it was her son's heart, so Qingyan did not refuse, but enjoyed it happily.
With today's meal, Xiao Si put all the shrimp dumplings, siomai and xiaolongbao that he put on his plate.
About two-quarters of an hour later, mother and son finished their breakfast.
Qingyan took the tea from the maid and was gargling her mouth when she heard Xiao Si sitting opposite say: "Mother, I want to go to the North Fifth Institute with you later."
When the imperial concubine heard this, she spat out the tea in her mouth. While wiping the corners of her mouth with a clean handkerchief, she looked at Xiao Si in puzzlement and asked, "Why?"
Xiao Si did not answer this immediately, but quickly rinsed and wiped his mouth before standing up from the chair, with his hands behind his back like a little adult, and said with confidence:
"Because I'm only five years and two months old now, and I'm far from the age where I need to be guarded by men and women. Even if I go to the North Fifth School, I won't bump into the beautiful sisters who go to school there."
"But E Niang is in a critical moment now. There are so many people in the college, and they don't know that E Niang has a baby in her belly. What should I do if I accidentally bump into E Niang's belly?
If you are idle, it is better to go over there and take good care of yourself."
Standing in front of the dinner table, Bai Lu saw Brother Si wearing a melon-skin hat. After saying these words very seriously, she couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Qingyan couldn't help laughing when she heard her son's words. She knew Xiaosi and knew that he was stubborn, so she could only nod her head and agreed to take him to the academy to learn more.
At 5:00 a.m., mother and son packed up and took Bai Lu out together.
When the group of three people passed through the Royal Garden and arrived at the Princess Academy, Xiao Si had just raised his legs and stepped over the threshold to walk in when he heard bursts of morning reading coming from the classroom on one side of the corridor.
He couldn't help but blinked his red phoenix eyes, raised his head slightly and said to the imperial concubine beside him:
"Mom, I didn't expect these beautiful sisters and sisters to be quite diligent in their studies."
"That's for sure. It's more difficult for girls to study now than for boys. Now it's hard to have the opportunity to study. Every little girl here is very hardworking. Don't underestimate these sisters.
, sisters, they are as smart as you, and some of them may even work harder than your prince."
"There is a beautiful sister who is two or three years older than you and almost as old as your prince brother. She can speak Mandarin, Mongolian and Chinese at a young age."
Qingyan thought of the round-faced, almond-eyed little girl from Gualjia's family and couldn't help but stretched out her hand to rub the melon-skin cap on her son's head and said with emotion.
After hearing this, Xiao Si nodded thoughtfully.
After a while, the three people walked to the dean's study.
Qingyan pointed to the slide, cradle, carousel, swings and other toys in the front yard, and said to Xiao Si:
"Xiaosi, I don't need you to accompany me here. You can play in the middle of the yard for a while while the little girls are reading in the morning. After all, it is a rare holiday."
"Mom, please hurry up and do your work. Don't worry about me. I want to play and I can do it myself."
Xiaosi waved his hand and rejected the imperial concubine's proposal. He first sat down on the chair in front of the desk, then reached out and picked up the big pillow on the soft couch on one side, and stuffed it between his forehead and the chair.
In the middle of the back, Qingyan could lean comfortably. After arranging the imperial concubine, Xiaosi moved a chair and placed it at the door of the study room, guarding it like a little doorkeeper.
Bai Lu saw that her fourth brother had finished all her work, so she had no choice but to go to the waiter next door to make some scented tea for her master and fourth brother.
Qingyan was quite interested in seeing Xiaosi sitting at the door, and she didn't try to persuade him anymore. She used an ink stick to rub a little ink in the inkstone, and then picked up a wolf-hair brush from the pen holder and dipped it in some ink.
, opened the blank folder on the table, and began to carefully sort out the important things of the college in the second half of the year, planning to clearly indicate the priorities, so that after the semester started in September, when she became too heavy and could not come to the college, Sister An and
Aunt Su Ma can also handle things one by one according to what she wrote.
Today is the first time Little Si Tou comes back to Beiwu Institute. If he says he is not excited, he would be lying.
He really didn't expect that the atmosphere here would be even better than the Enlightenment Study Room in their South Third School, and he also coveted the large toys in the front yard.
Xiaosi cast his eyes on the carousel in the east corner and was so envious. His mother said that this thing was prepared for the equestrian lessons for the little girls who were in the enlightenment class.
The little girls first learn the correct postures for getting on and off the horse on the wooden horse. After they are not afraid of riding, they can wait until they are older and advance to the "advanced class" before they can follow Concubine An to the martial arts arena and learn to ride a real pony.
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Xiaosi stared at the lifelike carved wooden horse without blinking an eye. He was now five years old, except for that time when he left the palace and went to the palace, he briefly brushed against the prince's brother's pony at the Xihua Gate.
Komagai, he's grown so long that he hasn't even touched a horse's butt!
He really wanted to go ride the merry-go-round, but he also heard from his fourth sister that E Niang was very popular in the college. After class, girls of all sizes liked to go to the dean’s study to look for her.
His mother-in-law spoke.
Forget it in normal times, now his mother has to compress her time to deal with college affairs in the second half of the year, and she doesn't have that much time to chat with the little girls.
Just as Xiaosi was thinking this, the morning reading bell rang, and he saw the classroom door open, and dozens of little girls came out and ran in his direction.
Xiaosi's eyelids twitched, and his face instantly changed into an expressionless and cold face that did not allow strangers to approach him.
Most of the little girls went to find their favorite toys to play with. The remaining few students usually came to Dean Jing in small groups when nothing happened. Today, they ran to the study room as usual.
At the door, they saw a strange little boy blocking the door with a cold face. The little girls didn't understand what was going on, so they had to turn around and leave three times at a time to play elsewhere.
After a while, Fulana, Mo Yaqi, Yilmu, and Ke Jing all ran over after class. Seeing Xiao Si guarding here, the four sisters also remembered Dean Jing's pregnancy and began to help.
Xiao Si calmly took the little girls who came to see Dean Jing and took them somewhere else to play.
Unbeknownst to Qingyan, several children had teamed up to trick her students away, because no students came to disturb her during class today, and Qingyan couldn't wait to get everything done quickly.
The arrangements were made, so she was highly focused and efficient at work this morning.
Days like this passed for seven or eight days in a row, and Xiao Si went to "work" with his mother every day.
In a blink of an eye, it was the tenth day of July. Xiaosi's holiday was over. He had to carry the new schoolbag made for him by the palace maid and go to the minister's study room to study. The courtiers living outside the palace also heard the emperor's story one after another.
News of the imperial concubine's pregnancy.
Qingyan tried her best to compress her time, and finally used this short half-month to arrange everything in the college for the second half of the year, and began to prepare for the final exam.
During this period, Kangxi and the young prince also listened to Dr. Zhang running to the Qianqing Palace every day in the evening to tell them about the pulse condition he diagnosed for the imperial concubine that day. Knowing that Qingyan's fetal image was always stable, both father and son felt comfortable.
Take a breath.
The days flew by, and it was late July in the blink of an eye. The Princess Academy was on summer vacation, and Qingyan's belly was completely pregnant. The belly was obviously larger than others, which clearly proved that the imperial concubine was definitely pregnant with twins.
!Qingyan also began to nestle in Chuxiu Palace, and followed the doctor's instructions to have a good pregnancy.
By the end of July, the weather was extremely hot.
At the beginning of noon, Kangxi was sitting in the imperial study room, holding a red pen and quickly reviewing the book, preparing to finish his government affairs and go to Chuxiu Palace for dinner.
At this time, Liang Jiugong took the opportunity to add ice to the ice basin next to the imperial case and said to Kangxi:
"Your Majesty, Lord Suo'etu is waiting outside the door. He said he has something important to report to you."
When Kangxi heard this, his hand holding the brush paused, and he was a little puzzled. It was almost dinner time, why did Suo'etu come over at this time?
He finished approving the last fold in his hand and said to Liang Jiugong beside him without raising his head:
"Let him in."
Liang Jiugong nodded and hurriedly walked down the three steps.
Kangxi finished approving the memorials and put them on the memorials piled high on one side. He was rubbing his sore neck with his hands when he saw Suo'etu, sweating profusely, following Liang Jiugong in a hurry.
Come in.
Before Kangxi could speak, Suo'etu's eyes turned red and he fell to his knees heavily on the ground.
Kangxi saw Suo'etu's collapse, as if the sky was about to fall, and his heart skipped a beat. He just opened his mouth and before he could even make a sound, he saw his father-in-law kneeling on the ground and shouted with tears.
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"Your Majesty, I have something important to report to you. Someone outside the palace wants to harm the Imperial Concubine, His Highness the Crown Prince and Fourth Brother!"
"What?"
When Kangxi heard this, he stood up from his armchair in shock. Even Liang Jiugong, who was standing next to Suo'etu, opened his eyes wide.
"Sou'etu, what do you mean?"
Kangxi frowned and asked urgently.
Suo'etu also quickly moved forward and cupped his hands, choking and saying:
"Your Majesty, for some reason, rumors have spread all over the capital in the past few days, saying that the Imperial Concubine is pregnant with two disaster stars. The disaster stars are unknown, and they are born to suppress their mother. The only way is to give birth to the two disaster stars in their swaddling clothes.
You personally go to the Temple of Heaven to worship the genius with piety so that God can take away these two disaster stars, so as to bless the people of the Qing Dynasty to live a happy life, otherwise a great disaster will occur in the Qing Dynasty!"
When Kangxi heard this, his pupils shrank instantly, and he was so angry that he stretched out his hand and patted the imperial case and shouted loudly:
"Fart, what nonsense are these! Wei Zhu! Wei Zhu!"
Wei Zhu, who was waiting outside, heard the emperor's anxious voice calling him from inside the study, and quickly turned around and walked in quickly.
When Kangxi saw Wei Zhu, he stretched out his arms like an angry lion, brushed off all the things on the imperial desk, and roared at Wei Zhu:
"Wei Zhu, now take the secret guards out of the palace to investigate for me! Take a good look at how the people arrange the imperial concubines!"
"The slave obeys the order."
When Wei Zhu heard this, he was stunned for a moment, glanced at Suo Xiang who was kneeling on the ground, and hurriedly bowed and left.
Liang Jiugong's heart was beating wildly, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva in fear. These words sounded so true, so desperate! He even dared to say that the child in the belly of the imperial concubine was a disaster. So, what was the imperial concubine?
Disaster Star’s direct biological mother! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Fourth Elder Brother are Disaster Star’s biological brothers, and the Emperor is Disaster Star’s biological mother! Oh my god! This is really life-threatening!
On the afternoon of July in the late summer and early autumn, because of Suo'etu's words, everything inside and outside the palace was completely in chaos.
Kangxi was worried that the imperial concubine would be so angry after hearing this, that she strictly blocked the news from entering the Chuxiu Palace in the north.
In the Yongshou Palace, when Xiao Niu Hulu heard this outrageous rumor, she immediately overturned the tea cup in her hand in panic. The tea was mixed with tea leaves and covered her flag dress. She didn't care and quickly reached out to grab it.
The wet nurse's sleeves in front of her spoke in panic:
"Mommy, how could this happen?"
"We obviously didn't spread this kind of news!"
Grandma Du was also a little dumbfounded, completely confused about the current situation.
She and their master were not stupid, they were carrying out a fair and honest conspiracy. They had already considered in advance that if the rumors spread and the emperor really discovered the little tricks they did behind the scenes, there would be no way to deal with them.
Because the rumor they asked their informants to spread outside the palace was: "The imperial concubine is pregnant with two lucky stars, and she will be able to bless the Qing Dynasty after she is born safely!"
They themselves planned to let the common people know the news, thus forcing the imperial concubine to have no way out. She did not want to give birth but had to take into account the wishes of the common people and enter the delivery room honestly.
The first child plus twins with a very low success rate, coupled with the emperor's weird destiny of suppressing his wife, there is a high probability that the Nine Emperor Princesses will have an accident during childbirth. This is their purpose!
It’s unbelievable that the content of the current rumors is completely contrary to what they spread!