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.
.
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."
Qingyan flipped through the pages and saw that the concubine Xiao Gege, who was just one month old under the knee of Prince Gong Chang Ning, had the property of her grandmother Ukuma in her name. She closed the red-sealed book and said with some emotion.
Kangxi nodded and said:
"Mother Huang said that the girl will be treated as a dowry, and the boy will be treated as he wants. In the future, he will be able to open a house, marry a wife and have children, so that he can have more money."
"That's the truth."
"Is it possible that the Emperor is distressed by this matter? Because he is a grandson and does not receive the care of the Queen Mother, so he is jealous of the children?"
Qingyan joked with a smile.
Kangxi glanced at his imperial concubine with a smile and sighed:
"I'm not that stingy. As long as she is happy with Mama Huang's things, she can do with them how she likes."
"Alas, what worries me is that this morning, in front of Liu Yushi and Li Zhuguan, Huang Mama said that after a hundred years, her golden coffin would not have to be transported all the way to Shengjing and Hanma.
She asked me to bury her directly near the Qingdong Tomb of Khan Amma."
"Mother Huang said that Emperor Taizong has been sleeping in the Zhaoling Mausoleum in Shengjing for a long time, so there is no need to disturb his peace by going there."
"I am mainly worried about this matter, so I want to hear your opinion."
When Qingyan heard this, she finally understood Kangxi's worries.
It is a rule for emperors and empresses to be buried together. If Kangxi ignored the etiquette, it would definitely be bad, and he would probably be criticized by the ministers of the previous dynasty.
But if he ignores the wishes of the Empress Dowager and insists on letting her return to Shengjing with his Hanma Dharma Emperor Taiji to be buried together, then it would be unfilial to his grandmother.
Being in a dilemma, no wonder he looked like he was wandering in a daze.
Qingyan pursed her lips and thought seriously. The love between Huang Taiji and Chen Fei Hai Lanzhu was written in the history books. The Empress Dowager devoted her whole life to the Qing Dynasty and Horqin. In the words of later generations, this person was a
A very enterprising heroine. A woman with such a mentality wouldn't want to live in the same tomb with these two people after her death, right?
Historically, the Empress Dowager was not buried in Shengjing. Kangxi deliberately dismantled several houses that the Empress Dowager loved in the Cining Palace intact and built a "temporary enshrinement hall" near Shunzhi's mausoleum to enshrine the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager's golden coffin was kept there for thirty-seven years. It is estimated that Kangxi himself did not know what to do with the golden coffin of his Queen Mother.
Until Kangxi's death, Yongzheng had just ascended the throne and ordered his mother's coffin to be buried on the spot. As a result, the mausoleum of the later Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was located outside the mausoleum of Emperor Shunzhi, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty.
Qingyan knew that this matter was all due to the popular science of the fourth master's party partner in her previous life. It was only because Yongzheng also handled this matter, so she mentioned it to herself when talking about Yongzheng's other matters.
"Yan'er, what are you thinking about?"
Kangxi saw that just after he said this, his imperial concubine was just like him, her eyes were vacant and dazed, so he raised his hand and waved it in front of her.
"Um, it's okay. I was just too surprised to hear the news."
Qingyan laughed awkwardly, and when she saw that Kangxi was waiting for her to provide him with reliable ideas quickly, she bit her lower lip with her teeth, frowned slightly and said:
"I do understand Madam Huang's thoughts."
"What's the matter? Is it possible that a hundred years from now you will follow Madam Huang's example and be unwilling to be buried with me?"
Kangxi's thinking was obviously too divergent, his thick eyebrows were furrowed tightly, and his phoenix eyes were staring at Qingyan who was sitting opposite.
"Are you kidding me, Your Majesty? I am the imperial concubine, how can I be buried with you?"
Qingyan waved her hands and smiled, but looking at Kangxi's increasingly serious expression, she couldn't help but touch her nose with a guilty conscience and couldn't laugh anymore.
It was true that she was the imperial concubine, but after Kangxi died, she would definitely be "promoted" to become the empress dowager. Then when she closed her eyes, she would definitely be buried with Kangxi.
But when I think about the history, Kangxi canonized three queens successively. After Yongzheng ascended the throne, Wu Ya, the Holy Mother Empress Dowager, was naturally buried with Kangxi.
It seems that Concubine Eniangmin, the thirteenth elder brother of Prince Yi, who died young, was later posthumously made the imperial concubine of the Holy Patriarch by Yongzheng, and was stuffed in Kangxi's tomb.
Qingyan was very sure about the former, but whether the latter was right or not, she really couldn't remember clearly after two lifetimes, but she knew one thing, whether it was Emperor Kangxi in history or Kangxi in this world, in the future
It’s right that the tombs are very “crowded”!
Only a descendant of her would be crazy to think of living in it!
No matter how good the golden nanmu coffin is, it can't prevent insects and ants from biting the corpse inside. If Sun Dianying, a tomb robber, comes out in the future of this world, she doesn't want to wait until she dies and her corpse will still be there.
Even if the tomb is not robbed, if it is discovered by archaeological experts of later generations and put on display in a museum, a small sign will be erected next to it with the words "In such and such a month in a certain year, according to research, this woman was the imperial concubine of Emperor Kangxi, the sage of the Qing Dynasty."
", just thinking about it makes me feel goosebumps all over my body, and my toes are about to dig through the ground.
It would be better to burn it with fire, as was the old custom in Manchuria.
Why?
Burn it on fire, scatter the ashes into the sea with the wind, and float away along the waves. How free and heroic that is!
Qingyan, who was dragging her cheek with her right hand and thinking deeply, suddenly her eyes lit up, and in just a short while she figured out what to do with her body in the future.
She quickly put down her right arm, looked at Kangxi raising his eyebrows and waited for her to speak, and said with a smile:
"It is naturally a dream for me to be buried with the emperor."
That’s weird! I want to be buried at sea!
When Kangxi heard this, the expression on his face finally softened, and he lowered his head to drink the remaining sips of tea in the cup.
Qingyan was sensitively aware that it would be dangerous to discuss this topic any further. She changed the topic to the Empress Dowager again, looked at Kangxi and said warmly:
"The emperor's concubine feels that since the emperor chose to tell this matter in front of the imperial censor and the daily minister, it is also to keep the history books in a file, so that future generations will not know the situation and use this matter to criticize you."
"I understand Madam Huang's painstaking efforts, but this..."
Kangxi nodded and held his head against the pain, obviously not knowing what to say next.
Qingyan rubbed the edge of the table with her hand and said softly:
"Your Majesty, it can be said that Madam Huang has devoted her whole life to you and the late Emperor. Compared with Sheng Jing, she may hope to stay in Guan for a long time and look after the juniors she cares about. Moreover, she
Since I mentioned this to you face to face, it must be her wish that she has thought about for a long time."
"Rules and etiquette are dead, but people's hearts are alive. Can you bear to let Madam Huang down?"
Kangxi turned the jade ring on his hand and frowned in deep thought.
Qingyan looked at his silent expression and wasn't sure what he was thinking, so she added another sentence:
"Concubine, I dare to say something ugly. A hundred years from now, or even a hundred years from now, we will be buried in the customs. Do you have the heart to let Madam Huang stay so far away from us?"
Qingyan pursed her lips and said no more.
Just at this time, the twins' crying came from the inner room.
Qingyan stood up from the carved chair and planned to go see the three little pods on their lunch break, leaving Kangxi alone in the side hall to think about it.
…
The fine snow outside did not stop falling in the afternoon, but also turned into heavy falling snow.
Wait until night falls and the temperature gets lower.
The heavy goose-feather snow was mixed with small, round hailstones as big as an adult's thumbnail, which hit the glazed roofs and glass windows of the walls, making crackling sounds.
At four o'clock in the morning, it was so dark that even the shadows of people could not be seen.
In the Royal Beast Garden, in an eunuch's ear room with a dim butter lamp near the cat and dog room, a heart-stopping cough could be heard through the door.
"Cough cough cough cough."
The incessant coughing sound is as if it is coughing out the lungs of a person. Once it starts, it cannot stop.
The strong eunuch who slept in the first place on the Datong bunk couldn't listen anymore. He turned his head and looked at his colleagues beside him, who were covering their ears and frowning, trying to endure it.
As soon as he was erect, he turned over and sat up, and cursed angrily at the little eunuch sitting at the table in the center of the room:
"I asked you, kid, why don't you let everyone sleep? We have been busy outside all day. Now we finally relax and want to go to bed quickly, but we still have to listen to you coughing here, right?"
"Ahem, I'm sorry, cough, everyone."
"My throat is really itchy and I can't stand it."
The coughing little eunuch hurriedly offered his hands to the eunuchs on the Datong bunk and apologized.
His cheeks were flushed, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead, revealing a hint of illness, but because the surrounding light was so dark, no one else crowded on the Datong bunk could notice it.
"Oh! What bad luck!"
The strong eunuch looked at the little eunuch who looked pitiful like a weakling. He frowned and cursed, then flopped back into his bed.
The little eunuch forced himself to hold his breath and wanted to stop coughing, but his throat was really itchy and unbearable. Even though he covered his mouth, a muffled coughing sound could still be heard.
After burning the incense, the door to the wing room was suddenly opened from the outside.
A little eunuch who was about the same height as the coughing little eunuch held a medicine bowl in his hand and walked over the threshold from outside with snowflakes all over his body.
Seeing the little eunuch sitting at the table with his right hand clenched into a fist and putting it to his mouth, desperately trying to hold back his cough, he hurriedly turned around and closed the door to block the raging cold wind, snowflakes and small hail outside, holding the small eunuch
The medicine bowl walked to the square table in a few steps, and said in a low voice to the little eunuch:
"Xiao Xiazi, please drink this cold-repelling decoction quickly."
"Xiao Dongzi, cough, where did you get the medicine?"
Xiaoxiazi coughed and looked at Xiaodongzi with wide eyes in surprise and asked.
"Don't worry, it doesn't cost any money. During the day, the imperial concubine specially ordered Dr. Zhang to prepare many medicinal packages for the palace people. In the imperial kitchen, there were several large pots set up under the eaves of the corridor, and they were frying all the time.
Medicinal soup.”
"I went to drink a bowl when I passed by there. I felt that my body was quite warm after drinking it, so I brought a bowl back to you."
"Ahem, thank you very much, Xiaodongzi."
When the little eunuch heard this, he looked up at the visitor gratefully. He took the warm medicine bowl with trembling cold hands, raised his neck and drank all the bitter medicine down his throat into his stomach in one breath.
The other eunuchs lying on the Datong bunk heard the conversation between the two people and sat up straight. They looked expectantly at the little eunuch standing by the table and asked:
"Xiao Dongzi, are you telling the truth? Is this cold-repelling soup still available tomorrow?"
"Yes, yes. I specifically asked the masters who cooked the medicine. They said that this winter they would be boiling medicine in a big pot under the eaves. In the afternoon, Aunt Bailu, who was next to the imperial concubine, ran to deliver a message to them, saying that it was
It's too cold this winter, so I'll make some soup for everyone to prepare against the cold."
"Oh, the imperial concubine is such a good person."
The older eunuchs sitting on the Datong bunk against the wall knew how rare this was for them, so they laughed and said.
The eyes of the sturdy eunuch who spoke first also showed joy. Seeing that Xiao Xiazi drank the decoction and her coughing sound became quieter as expected, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked:
"Xiaoxiazi, Xiaodongzi, if I remember correctly, you two and the little father-in-law Su Peisheng who is following the fourth elder brother now are the same group of young eunuchs who came into the palace after purification, right?"
Xiaoxiazi and Xiaodongzi both nodded when they heard this.
"Ahem, the two of us were living in the same house as Xiao Suzi in the House of Internal Affairs at that time, but he got better luck later. Later, Eunuch Zhang from Chuxiu Palace came to the House of Internal Affairs to choose a personal eunuch for the fourth elder brother, and he
He was chosen by Eunuch Zhang."
Xiao Natsuko replied with a slightly hoarse voice.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, then you are really the same person but have different fates."
When the strong eunuch heard this, he couldn't help but pursed his lips, shook his head and commented.
"Xiao Xia Zi, Xiao Xia Zi, have you found the calico cat?"
At this moment, the door to the wing room was knocked open again from the outside with a "bang" sound.
The eunuchs in the room saw the eunuch in charge coming in despite the wind and snow. The coughing Xiao Xiazi stood up from the stool, and the older eunuchs also hurriedly got out of the Datong shop.
"Boss, that cat owner, I've been looking for him all day and I still can't find him."
Xiao Xiazi was a little frustrated, coughing and whispering:
"It looked a little strange two days ago and was in a bad mood. I was just thinking about finding a veterinarian to come and take a look at the cat owner. Unexpectedly, I just opened the cage door to feed it yesterday morning, and it suddenly
The ground gave me a few claw marks on the back of my hand, and it ran away in a few jumps. By the time I chased it out, it had lost sight of its shadow."
The eunuch in charge saw that the child, who was only in his early ten years old, was coughing like this. His whole body was shaking when he coughed. He couldn't bear it anymore. He put his hands behind his back and sighed:
"Cat owners are all spiritual. Some know that they are going to die and are not willing to die in front of the people who serve them. Under normal circumstances, they will quietly find a remote corner to wait for themselves to die."
The palace servants who can be assigned to work in the Royal Beast Garden basically love small animals and have good hearts.
The eunuch in charge pursed his lips, frowned and thought for a while, then continued:
"Forget it, forget it, it's snowing so hard outside, you'd better recuperate first. When the snow clears and your cough becomes lighter, you can go out and search carefully, focusing on the Imperial Garden, where there are many trees and rockeries.
There are many, so cat owners can hide easily. If the calico cat is really gone, and you are so anxious to bring the body back with a piece of white cloth and bury it in the soil, don’t accidentally scare the owners. Then our entire cat
Everyone in the dog house is just waiting for bad luck."
"Okay, thank you, boss, I remember."
Xiao Xiazi coughed twice more and nodded hurriedly.
Xiaodongzi also followed his words and said:
"Boss, don't worry. When the snow clears, I will help Xiao Xiazi go out to find the cat owner."
Xiaodongzi patted Xiaoxiazi's back with her hand to calm him down, and assured the eunuch in charge.
"Okay, then you should go to bed early."
"By the way, from today onwards, the cold-repelling soup will be continuously supplied under the eaves of the imperial dining room. You can all take advantage of your shift time to have a bowl. Those dog owners and cat owners should also take good care of them. Don't
Sick of the cold."
"Got it."
The eunuchs in the ear room all nodded obediently.
The eunuch in charge thought for a while and finished all the explanations he had to explain, then turned around and closed the door and went out.
It snowed heavily all night.
By the next morning, the entire Forbidden City was covered in silver.
One night passed, and Xiao Xiazi not only did not relieve her symptoms, but became so hot that she lay at the end of Datongbu unable to get up.
Xiao Dongzi had no choice but to run to the imperial kitchen several times a day to get Xiao Xiazi's cold-repelling soup.
After he finished what he was doing, he deliberately ran along the palace road to the imperial garden in the north while it was still dark, meowing like a cat, looking for the lost calico cat, but he came from nearby
At dusk, I couldn't see the cat owner until it was dark, so I had to shrink my neck and return without success.
A few days later, it was the first day off at Princess Academy.
When she was at the inn in Mount Wutai, Qingyan promised Xiao Shi that when she returned to the palace, she would ask Chef Bai to make snacks that were more delicious than beef jerky for Xiao Yiner.
It was rare to have some free time on a rest day, so after finishing her meal at noon, she ordered Bai Lu to take out all the chocolates that Kangxi had sent to her palace.
Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba, who knew from Xiao Yiner's mouth that today Emperor Eniang's palace would be making delicious snacks, followed Xiao Yiner back to Chuxiu Palace to have a meal after school.
Xiao Jiu suffered from cold and had asked the masters at Nansan School for two days of sick leave. He was unable to see Brother Jiu for two days, and Xiao Shi was not in good spirits.
"Come on, Xiao Shi, have a taste."
Qingyan used a small silver knife to cut off pieces of chocolate about the size of a fingernail from a large piece of chocolate. After passing a piece to Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba, she looked at Xiao Yiner sitting on the carved chair next to her.
Drooping his furry little head, he smiled and stuffed a piece into his little mouth.
The twins, who were standing next to the imperial concubine with her legs in their arms, saw that the three little brothers were all eating. The two little babies hurriedly pulled their mother's arms, indicating that they wanted to eat too.
Qingyan had no choice but to cut the chocolate into two pieces and feed a small piece to each of the twins' little mouths.
Little Thirteen and Little Fourteen originally thought this was a delicious black snack, but they never imagined that the chocolate would give them a painful taste as soon as they took it into their mouths. The two brothers frowned and spat it out with a "puff puff" sound.
chocolate.
Xiao Qi reluctantly swallowed the chocolate and asked with some uncertainty:
"Empress Huang, these black things are so bitter. Can you really make delicious snacks with them?"
Xiaoba, who was standing next to him, swallowed the chocolate and thought about it carefully, then gave the opposite evaluation in a sweet voice:
"Brother Qi, I think this chocolate is pretty good."
Everyone has different tastes. Qingyan also cut herself a small piece of chocolate with a silver knife and found that the taste was indeed quite authentic.
If it is processed twice and made into chocolate milk bars, chocolate milk tea, and chocolate steamed cakes, the taste will probably become sweeter, making it suitable for small milk dumplings.
Seeing that both Xiao Yinyou and Xiao Yinsu had spoken, while Xiao Yiner still hung his head and remained silent, Qingyan knelt down in confusion and said warmly:
"Xiao Shi, your ninth brother is just sick. He will be able to play with you after he recovers. Don't be sad."
Xiao Yiner raised his head when he heard the sound.
Qingyan found that Xiao Shi's face looked normal when he had just eaten. Why did he become so red now?
Her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly reached out her right hand and placed her palm on Xiao Yiner's forehead and felt it carefully, and found that Xiao Shi's body temperature was indeed a bit high.
She subconsciously wanted to activate the powers in her body, but Xiao Shi seemed to be in pain, shook his head uncomfortably, and said in a soft voice:
"Mother Huang, it seems like there are bugs crawling into my collar. I feel itchy in my neck."
Where do the bugs come from in the middle of winter?
Qingyan had a bad premonition after hearing this, and hurriedly reached out to unbutton Xiao Shi's collar.
She took off all of Xiao Yiner's collar, and after clearly seeing the two red bumps emerging from the back of his neck, Qingyan's pupils shrank, and she was about to ask the palace maid to call the imperial doctor to take a look at the red bumps.
Is it smallpox?
As if there was a tiger chasing behind her, the palace maid Mang Zhong opened the cotton curtain in a panic, crossed the threshold and ran into the hall. When she saw the imperial concubine, she shouted anxiously:
"My dear, my dear, it's not good, it's not good, Brother Ninth's disease is not cold, he has pox! The Eleventh Brother in Yikun Palace was also infected by Brother Ninth."
"Besides, the Queen Mother just sent someone to the Imperial Hospital to ask for Dr. Zhang, saying that the fifth and sixth elder brothers also seem to have acne."
When the imperial concubine heard this, she couldn't help but tremble as she grabbed Xiao Shi's hand at the collar. Her heart felt as if it had hit rock bottom, and she understood that Xiao Shi must also be suffering from smallpox.
It seems that Xiao Jiu was the first to be infected with the smallpox virus. When he was enlightened in Nansan Institute, he also infected Xiao Wu, Xiao Liu and Xiao Ten. After returning to Yikun Palace, Xiao Eleven was infected again.
Infected.
All five brothers were infected, so how could Xiaoqi and Xiaoba, who were also initiated at Nansan Institute, be spared?
Qingyan's heart was beating loudly, and she was so panicked that she wanted to burst out of her mouth.
Xiao Qi, Xiao Ba and Xiao Ten also turned pale with fright.
The twins, who were holding E Niang's legs, didn't know what smallpox was. They looked at E Niang and their three brothers in confusion, and were about to speak.
There was a loud "bang" sound. As soon as she walked into the inner room to get toys for Brother Ten and wanted to make her little master happy, she tripped over the carved chair and fell heavily to the ground.