"Empress Huang, you don't have to send the three of us off. We will go back soon with the palace guests."
At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was so dark that no one could be seen. The eldest princess Fulana, wearing a silver-red flag uniform, stood outside the gate of Chuxiu Palace with her second sister Mo Yaqi and her younger sister Yilmu.
, Seeing the imperial concubine cross the mahogany threshold with her feet, looking like she was about to send the three sisters away, she couldn't help laughing or crying and quickly stretched out her arms to stop her.
"Yes, Queen Mother, the eldest sister is right, we have several palace people behind us. Besides, what can happen in the palace? You see, after passing the Imperial Garden, you will reach Zhongcui.
Palace and Jingyang Palace."
Wearing a goose-yellow flag dress, the lively and pretty second princess Mo Yaqi also stretched out her arm and pointed eastward with a smiling face.
Although the shy and introverted princess Yilmu did not speak, she waved her hands and refused to the emperor. Qingyan saw the movements of the three sisters and had no choice but to stop thinking about sending them off for a while, and smiled a little embarrassedly.
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"Anyway, I would like to thank you three sisters for coming over to help the Queen. I didn't expect that this year there will be so many people in the clan who want to study in the academy. I originally thought that it would be over after one day's work, but who knows?
I feel sorry for you for delaying my stay so late."
"Mother Huang, look what you said, we will be the teaching assistants of the masters next year, and we have to get acquainted with the new students in the college. Although there are many things today, we are very busy and happy. Mother Huang knows that you
He is teaching us how to deal with things, and he will definitely be happy and grinning from ear to ear."
Flora winked playfully at the imperial concubine and said with a smile.
"Mumu feels the same way."
Ilmu, who was standing next to the second princess, also said shyly in a soft voice.
"Okay, okay, don't talk anymore. After the busy days of school are over, Huang'e Niang will invite you three to have a good meal in Chuxiu Palace. It's really not too early now, and it rains again during the day.
After a heavy rain, the palace roads must be slippery and tight. You all should walk slower. When you return to the palace, remember to drink a bowl of warm ginger soup before going to bed. Don't accidentally catch the cold."
Qingyan reached out and patted a little girl on the shoulder, smiled and warned them warmly.
The sisters nodded lightly, then leaned over slightly to salute, and then led the palace guests carrying ram's horn palace lanterns, chatting and laughing all the way east.
Qingyan squinted her eyes and watched as the little girl walked to the corner of the palace road. Fulana waved goodbye to her two sisters and led several palace people to go south. Mo Yaqi and Yilmu continued east side by side.
Walk.
After the princess's figure was completely submerged in the night, she withdrew her sight, turned around and looked west a few times. After finding that there was still no one coming, she couldn't help but secretly murmured in her heart: Could it be that the twins are staying in Ci tonight?
Ning Gongli, not coming back?
Bai Lu, who was standing behind the imperial concubine, also followed Qingyan's line of sight and looked west, then asked softly:
"Master, would you like me to go and take a look at Cining Palace now?"
"Forget it, most of the old people go to bed early and sleep lightly. I think the Queen Mother has already gone to bed. Xiao Ten and Xiao Fourteen don't know how to be born, and the nannies are following them. They really need to sleep.
Just stay there."
"Ha~ It's getting late, Lu, let's close the door and wash up and rest."
Qingyan opened her mouth and yawned. After replying to Bai Lu, she raised her legs and stepped over the threshold into the front yard.
Bai Lu looked westward twice without giving up, then raised her legs and walked into Chuxiu Palace, but she was thinking in her heart that Aunt An and Aunt Wu are both meticulous people. If the twins really don't come back,
Someone should be sent to tell the master.
Thinking of this, she turned her head and whispered to the two little eunuchs standing under the eaves guarding the door:
"Don't lock the door yet. Wait until the end of Haishi, if the tenth or fourteenth brother hasn't come back yet, then you can lock it again."
"Yes, Sister Bai Lu, the slaves have remembered it."
The two young eunuchs hurriedly bent down and agreed obediently, and Bai Lu also walked quickly towards the main hall.
After Qingyan finished taking a shower and dried her hair, about half an hour passed.
She put on autumn-colored pajamas, with her silky black hair draped behind her head. She walked into the inner room and glanced at the chiming clock placed on the huanghuali wood table. She found that the hour hand had already pointed to "nine", and it was a quarter of Hai hour.
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She sat on the bed and yawned again and again. She really couldn't stand it anymore. She was about to blow out the candles on the candlestick next to the bed and put down the bed curtain to sleep. Suddenly, a familiar little milking sound sounded outside the door.
She was so excited that she quickly got out of bed, put on her indoor slippers and walked out.
Reaching out to push aside the crystal curtain, you could see Kangxi wearing black uniforms holding his two little brothers in his arms. The autumn night was very cold, and the twins were wrapped in cloaks, only two fleshy white tender balls were exposed.
Face.
Little Fourteen was already fast asleep, with glistening drool hanging from the corner of his mouth. Little Ten still looked like he was holding on, his big eyes were wide open, and his long and thick eyelashes were flapping like butterfly wings.
After seeing this, she hurriedly stepped forward to take the twins from Kangxi's arms, and asked Kangxi in a low voice:
"Your Majesty, I thought that Xiao Shi and Xiao Fourteen would not come back tonight."
Kangxi raised his hand and touched Xiao Shi's face. After watching Xiao Shi close his big eyes and sleep, he also lowered his voice to the imperial concubine:
"Yan'er, please take Ten and Fourteen to the next door to sleep first. I will tell you something later."
"OK."
Qingyan saw that Kangxi's mood was obviously not very high. Although she didn't know what happened, she still nodded and took Bailu and the nannies to bring warm water to clean the twins.
After Kangxi saw the mother and son leaving, he turned the jade ring on his hand and followed Liang Jiugong to the clean room to take a bath.
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Late at night, after midnight, the twins were covered with small quilts, arranged in the shape of a "big" character, and lay on the cradle bed, soundly sleeping. However, Aniang, who was separated by a wall from them, was no longer sleepy.
Qingyan, who really couldn't sleep, simply opened her eyes and recalled what Kangxi told her about what happened in Cining Palace after taking a bath. He was planning to go to Mount Wutai to visit his Khan Ama Shunzhi in a few days, but Tai
The Empress Dowager was far beyond his expectation. She was unwilling to see her son again. The knot between mother and son would probably be difficult to untie in this life.
She tilted her head to the right and looked at Kangxi who was lying outside with his eyes closed, but his breathing rate was obviously wrong, so she knew that he was not asleep yet.
From the perspective of a bystander, she could understand both Kangxi's thoughts and the Empress Dowager's thoughts.
As Kangxi's son, he had never seen Khan Amma since he was eight years old. Even though he knew that this man was partial, it was precisely because he had never enjoyed the warmth of father and son since he was a child.
Even now, he is still looking forward to getting it, so when the time is right, he will make up his mind to visit Shunzhi.
The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. Perhaps in Kangxi's eyes, Queen Mother and Khan's grandmother could ease the relationship, and for him it was a happy family reunion.
But Qingyan is also a mother-in-law. She asked herself, if she were to put herself in the position of the Empress Dowager, she would never be able to be like her. She could just talk about the political relations between the parties and the complicated government affairs.
It gave her a severe headache and she wanted to run away. However, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the old lady assisted the two young emperors and stabilized the rear area. She must be said to be amazing.
She had worked hard all her life and suffered so much for the Qing Dynasty and Horqin, but her only son never really understood her for a moment. He was treated coldly by her husband in the first half of his life, and he struggled to clean up his son's mess in the second half of his life.
Now I see that my grandson, whom I have managed to raise since childhood, has grown into a man. Even though his son is still alive, in the heart of this old lady who has been strong all her life, she must have died long ago.
I remembered that whenever she took the twins to play in Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager would be like an ordinary amiable great-grandmother, coaxing the twins to play with toys. Now thinking about it, she probably also played with her two little great-grandchildren.
On the body, I recall the appearance of taking care of Xiao Fulin when I was young. Kangxi's wish to let his Khan Ama and Huang Ma Ma settle down their feud can only be said to be a bit wishful thinking. The mother and son were really in trouble and couldn't reconcile it.
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Qingyan sighed silently in her heart, and then fell asleep without knowing when...
The next day, the fifth school in the North School started. Dean Jing and his female masters were busy for several days. It was not until the seventh day of September that the chores of the college were finally completed. The new semester was on the right track. Kangxi would also "September"
On the 11th, the news spread to all the palaces that they would take the prince and the princess out of the palace to Wutai Mountain to pray for the Qing Dynasty.
The eighth day of September was the college's rest day. After Qingyan had eaten, she arranged for the palace guests to pack things they needed to use when leaving the palace.
Wutai Mountain is far away in Shanxi Province. It is not convenient to travel far away in this era, let alone a "family trip". All the miscellaneous things needed for food, clothing, housing and transportation must be prepared and packed in the carriage.
The twins were crawling around and playing on the carpet in the hall, watching E Niang and Aunt Bai Lu leading the maids in and out of the inner room, bringing soft bedding, thick winter robes, tea sets, toiletries and other things.
Pack them all up and put them in mahogany boxes.
Xiao Shi, who was wearing sapphire blue clothes, crawled up to E Niang's legs and stretched out her little hand to tug at the hem of the imperial concubine's cheongsam. After Qingyan felt it, she hurriedly lowered her head to look at the ground and saw Xiao Shi.
Lying next to him, he quickly bent down and picked up Xiao Shi, pretending to be angry and patted his fleshy little butt with his hand and said:
"Xiao Shi, didn't I say that you and your brother can only crawl on that carpet and not here? Everyone is busy. What if I accidentally step on you two?"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Xiao Shi blinked his big eyes in E Niang's arms, then turned sideways and pointed at the double-decker stroller at the base of the wall and said eagerly in a baby voice.
"What do you mean?"
Qingyan looked at the stroller and her son in confusion, not quite understanding what Xiao Shi meant.
Bai Lu, who was standing next to her, also stopped what he was doing and looked at Brother Ten with an incomprehensible expression.
Sitting there with a wooden pacifier in his mouth, Little Fourteen raised his furry little head to look at his brother who was being held by his mother, and then looked back at the stroller. The next moment, he was on his hands and knees.
He quickly climbed to the side of the stroller, stretched out his right hand to grab the wooden carvings on one side, and dragged the stroller to E Niang's side while crawling.
Before Qingyan could speak, Xiao Shisi suddenly raised the double-decker stroller high into the air. His small hands lifted the stroller, which was more than four times bigger than his little body, as if lifting weights.
He made a shooting gesture and threw the stroller into the opened mahogany box.
Qingyan's eyes twitched, and she hurriedly took out a hand to hold the stroller, stopping Xiao Shisi's movements.
"ah?"
The stroller was held down by E Niang and could not move. Xiao Shisi raised his head and looked at the imperial concubine in confusion.
"Master, do the two little brothers want us to stuff their cars into the box and take them away?"
Bai Lu asked, holding back her smile.
"Isn't that right? They really know how to think."
"Little Fourteen, please let go. We are going out of the palace in a big carriage, not in a small carriage to hang out in the imperial garden like we usually do."
"ah!"
Xiao Si was still confused and didn't understand the difference between the two. The two brothers were already used to having a car whenever they went out.
Bai Lu looked at the concubine Huang's face with a myocardial infarction. She quickly walked around the concubine and leaned down to carefully open the little fourteen's hand that was holding the stroller. She smiled at the concubine Huang and said:
"Master, we have a lot of luggage anyway, so it doesn't matter if we have one more item or one less item. Since the little brothers are used to riding in strollers, they can take them with them if they want. Then we can push them everywhere.
Look, it’s not a problem to hold her all the time.”
"Okay, okay, then you can find an empty box and stuff their car into it."
Qingyan said helplessly as she held her forehead against a headache.
Chuxiu Palace was busy with matters related to leaving the palace, and the other palaces were no less accommodating.
When the empresses in each palace discovered that the emperor only had the imperial concubine in the harem and did not plan to bring other concubines, Concubine Niu Hulu, Concubine Hui, and Concubine Rong were so angry that they broke a table full of teapots and cups.
Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong are fine. Even if they don't go, the eldest brother Yinzhi, the second princess Mo Yaqi and the brother Yinzhi are all considered eldest children. As long as they give good instructions before leaving the palace and the confidants and palace people take good care of them,
If you take care of her, nothing big will happen, but little Niu Hulu is in trouble.
When she learned from the eldest palace maid that Concubine Yi, Concubine An and Concubine Xuan, who lived in Yikun Palace at the back, had prepared gifts early in the morning and ran to Chuxiu Palace, asking the imperial concubine to take care of the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince.
After the elder brother, the ninth elder brother and the eleventh elder brother, everyone was extremely irritable.
Because Xiao Shi is now only two years old, which is the age when things are easy to get into trouble. Even if there is nanny Liu taking care of her, it is always uneasy to go out without a master to watch, but
Asking her to go to the little Hesheli family to subdue her, the little Niu Hulu family felt that it was really more uncomfortable than killing her!
With her hands folded in front of her, Hulu walked around the hall of Yongshou Palace. She struggled in her heart for a long time. Finally, she decided to entrust her son to the empress dowager, so she opened her mouth to her eldest maid.
He ordered:
"Go to the inner room and bring over the small wooden box on the table, and follow me to Shoukang Palace in the west."
After hearing what she said, the eldest palace maid couldn't help but raise her eyelids and glance at Concubine Niu Hulu's gloomy face, which seemed to be dripping with water. She hesitated and then whispered:
"Your Majesty, I feel that the Queen Mother has limited energy and cannot take care of our tenth brother."
"What?"
When Xiao Niu Hulu, who was about to turn around, heard this, his brows instantly wrinkled and he asked with a puzzled look on his face.
The eldest maid mustered up her courage and spoke again:
"Master, I heard that the emperor arranged the four princesses in the carriage of the Queen Mother. Think about it, the Queen Mother will definitely have to take care of the fifth and sixth elder brothers who are raised under her knees. The ones who live next to the Queen Mother
The twelfth elder brother must also be taken care of by the Empress Dowager. There are seven children, and the empress dowager is getting older. The tenth elder brother is at the time when he is lively and active. I am afraid that the empress dowager will not be able to take care of him."
"What's more, you don't have any friendship with the Empress Dowager." The eldest maid said the first part of the sentence and silently swallowed the second half of the sentence.
Xiao Niu Hulu frowned even more when she heard this. She had not expected this.
At this time, Brother Ten, who was hiding behind the bead curtain in the inner room and eavesdropped on all the conversations between the master and the servant, took advantage of the nanny Liu's unpreparedness, pushed open the bead curtain, and quickly moved his two short legs upside down.
He ran into the hall, stretched out his two small hands and pulled the sleeves of Xiao Niu Hulu, and shouted with a crying voice:
"E Niang, I don't want to stay with Madam Huang Ma. I want to sit with Ninth Brother in Huang E Niang's carriage and play with Little Ten and Little Fourteen."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Shi said "Wow" and closed his eyes and cried loudly.
Aunt Liu, who was running out behind her, felt a "thump" in her heart when she saw this, and secretly said something bad, the imperial concubine is upset at the moment, isn't the tenth brother just adding fuel to the fire by saying this now?
The thought had just passed through Nanny Liu's mind, and the next moment, Xiao Niu Hulu was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and her fur suddenly exploded. She bent down and picked up Xiao Shi by the armpits, and pressed
He spanked his buttocks on the carved chair nearby, cursing as he spanked:
"You idiot, you are so stupid, forget it, all you have is a crying heart and heart all day long, you can't even compare to a cripple or a handicapped person!"
When Xiao Shi's butt hurt, he cried even harder.
The eldest palace maid and Aunt Liu hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, and Aunt Liu anxiously advised:
"My dear, my dear, please stop fighting. Brother Ten is still young and ignorant."
Xiao Niu Hulu pushed Nanny Liu's blocking body aside with all her strength. The gilt nail polish she wore on her hand just drew a long, bright red trace of blood on Mrs. Liu's right cheek.
Blood instantly covered half of his face.
After the eldest maid saw Liu's miserable state, she immediately covered her mouth with her hand in horror and her eyes widened.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
After Xiao Shi saw the terrifying appearance of Grandma Liu, he struggled desperately. Xiao Niu Hulu was also shocked by this sudden accident. The strength of his hand relaxed, and the twisting Xiao Shi "bang" suddenly
He slumped on the back of the chair, tilted his furry little head, and closed his eyes.
"ah!"
The eldest palace maid, who had not yet recovered from the fright, was frightened again. She couldn't hold it back and immediately screamed.
"Xiao Shi!"
"Tenth brother!"
Concubine Niu Hulu and Aunt Liu also shrank their pupils and shouted loudly.
The palace people who were standing outside the hall hurried in when they heard the commotion. They were all stunned when they saw Brother Ten who was unconscious, bruises on his forehead revealing bloody wounds, and Aunt Liu with half of her face covered in blood.
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"Go to Tai Hospital quickly and find Dr. Zhang!"
Aunt Liu grabbed the little eunuch closest to her and shouted loudly with tears in her eyes.
The little eunuch was so yelled at by Mrs. Liu that his whole body trembled. After he came to his senses, he turned around and ran out. He stumbled heavily on the threshold and fell to the ground. He had no time to dust off his robe and continued to stumble towards the palace gate.