Manager Liang, who looked anxious, was following closely behind their Khan Ama.
Seeing the movements of the master and servant, Yinti's eyes widened instantly. How could there be anything he didn't understand?
The rustling noise coming from behind the screen just now was not a mouse! It was Khan Amma who was eavesdropping on their corner!
After realizing this, Yinti regretted it to death. He shouted in horror like a tenor:
"Khan Amma, how could you eavesdrop on our conversation!"
"Why, you all had the guts to squat under the window and eavesdrop on my corner when you were on Mount Wutai. Why can't I listen to the content of your conversation? Furthermore, did I eavesdrop? Qianqing Palace is obviously my palace, and everyone here I can come to this corner whenever I want!"
"You little bastards still dare to arrange this for me secretly on my territory! You also dare to talk about the love history of you Onkumafa and Khanmafa. I think you are really itchy. It’s time for me to take matters into my own hands and relax your muscles!”
Kangxi, who was about to go crazy, also acted like a tenor, and shamelessly rationalized his "eavesdropping" and shouted back angrily.
When he rushed to the bed with a feather duster, he saw his eldest son hurriedly lifting the brocade quilt on his body and crawling to the end of the bed in a hurry.
He immediately judged Yinti's destination and understood that the eldest son wanted to crawl along the end of the bed to the inside of the bed and hide behind the fourth son.
Kangxi almost laughed out loud at his eldest son's stupid behavior. The bed was such a big place. Could it be that Yinzhen thought that as long as he huddled up and hid behind Yinzhen, he would not be able to use the feather duster in his hand. Up his ass?
The tenor blasted their ears twice in a row. Yinreng and Yinzhen were also shocked by this sudden accident. Seeing the feather duster in his mother's hand, Yinreng secretly thought something bad and sat up hurriedly. , Just when he was about to step forward to stop him, Khan Ama took advantage of something in his hand to "act violently", but it was a pity that it was a step too late.
He and Yinzhen, who were sitting side by side, watched helplessly as their eldest brother's outstretched right arm had touched the thick mattress on the inside of the bed. They were about to see the dawn of victory, and they rolled his whole body into a ball and squeezed it into the inside of the bed. However, after all, the devil is one foot high and the road is ten feet high. I saw Khan Ama, who was good at riding and shooting in their daily life, taking a big step forward, leaping forward with his strong body, and stepping on the pedals with both feet. Go up, then hunch forward, kneeling firmly on the bed board, and a pair of iron arms firmly pinned their struggling eldest brother to the bed like a bastard.
The next moment, the muffled sound of the feather duster touching the buttocks and the cry like a pig being slaughtered almost simultaneously echoed in the inner room. What a misfortune for their eldest brother!
Yinren and Yinzhen felt the same pain in their buttocks and did not dare to take a look at their elder brother's buttocks.
"Yinti, you are so brave. You dare to pretend that I have true love, and you want to persuade your empress to select ugly girls for me to enter the palace. You are so capable, why don't you go to heaven!"
"Aw! Khan Ama, sir, no, my son doesn't dare anymore, aow!"
Yinti, who had not been spanked by his own mother for a long time, was slapped on the butt by a feather duster, and his upper body tilted up in pain, and his face was also hot. Without him, he was embarrassed, and he stood up after all. He was already a handsome young man nearly six feet tall. Being spanked like this by Khan Amma in front of his younger brothers really damaged the heroic image he displayed to the outside world.
Kangxi seemed to be furious and turned a deaf ear to his eldest son's howls. He beat and cursed:
"Before we left the palace for our long trip, your mother-in-law came to Qianqing Palace to look for me. I hope I can relent next year and let her arrange two good-looking personnel maids for you in Yanxi Palace. I see that you are interested in 'true love'." 'In view of our understanding, we should wait until you are fifteen, no, eighteen to talk about such beautiful things!"
Yin Ti was in pain and kept making "Ouch, Ouch" sounds. Hearing the "punishment" of their Khan Ama, his face turned a little green. He was not in a hurry to ask for help from the palace maid. It was clearly his mother who was anxious to hug her as soon as possible. Go to the big fat grandson!
"Khan Ama, please stop fighting. Brother was joking with us just now."
Yinzhen saw their eldest brother's face turning red. He didn't know that Yinzhen was blushing because of embarrassment, and mistakenly thought that Yinzhen had been beaten severely. He couldn't bear it, so he hurried forward and shouted to stop him.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing by the bed, knew that the emperor's men were sensible, so he calmly relit all the candles that had been blown out on the floor-standing gilded lotus candlestick, and the inner room became bright in an instant.
Looking at the chaotic scene in front of him, Yinreng couldn't help but hold his forehead with a headache. He always felt that he had forgotten something, but he couldn't remember anything.
His Royal Highness, whose head was in a state of dizziness, was about to lift off the brocade quilt covering his body and rush forward to rescue their eldest brother like Yinzhen. Unexpectedly, when he lowered his head, he saw two men lying on his left and right. The two little babies beside him had been awakened by the noise caused by their elder brother and Khan Amma, and their big, clear eyes were staring at him.
Yinreng: "!!!"
The twins who had been jumping on the bed for a long time before going to sleep, clamoring for their mothers, were finally coaxed to sleep by the palace staff with sweet milk. At this time, the two brothers were woken up in the middle of the night. After opening their big eyes, they saw them Still in the Palace of Qianqing, my brothers lied and couldn't see my mother after waking up!
The two brothers' mentality suddenly exploded. They wrinkled their light yellow eyebrows and pursed their mouths.
"Wow wow wow——"
"Uuuuuu——"
The loud cries of the two little babies, one behind the other, overlapped.
The double demonic sound shook his ears at the end of the bed. Kangxi was kneeling on the bed board and fighting with a feather duster. He tried every means to protect his buttocks with his hands to avoid being beaten. Yinzhen used both hands to start the fight with sincerity. , the three huddled father and son stiffened instantly, and all turned their heads to look in Yinreng's direction.
Liang Jiugong's eyelids twitched as he stood by the bed. He saw that Brother Fourteen was like the "little stone monkey" that burst out of the spiritual stone after waking up, with two short short legs that were extremely powerful. The child suddenly kicked off the brocade quilt covering him with a "bang". Xiao Shisi was very strong and kicked the brocade quilt flying to the end of the bed. By coincidence, it happened to be covered with the brocade quilt. On Kangxi's head.
A quilt flew towards him, and Kangxi, who was holding a feather duster in his hand, didn't react before his eyes were completely dark in an instant.
The three brothers Yinti, Yinreng, and Yinzhen also widened their eyes in unison.
Yinti, who was pinned down on the bed and spanked by their Khan Ama, even turned his head to look at his fourteenth brother with envy and gratitude.
I envy Xiao Fourteen's natural power and precision. If he leads the army to fight in the future, Xiao Fourteen will be so brave!
What Yinti was grateful for was that Xiaosi saved his butt that was about to be swollen by a big quilt.
This bright yellow thick quilt embroidered with auspicious patterns is large and wide. It was built by the five brothers together. Anyway, there are earth dragons and fine silver charcoal pots in the house. Even if one of them accidentally fell asleep in the middle of the night,
The quilt was kicked off, and I was wearing pajamas to protect me from the cold.
When Kangxi, with the help of Liang Jiugong, finally took off the big quilt covering his upper body, he happened to see his "stone monkey" little fourteen, his little body nimbly getting up from the bed, his two short legs
It's spread softly
The big bed with thick mattress swayed a few times, and he was wearing a loose red pajamas. He clenched the two small fists hanging by his sides, took a deep breath, and then closed his big eyes.
As soon as the younger brother cried, Xiao Shisan, as a fellow brother, also burst into tears.
The cries of the two little babies were very penetrating in the quiet snowy night. One after another, like a duo of loud cries, they spread through the wall to the outside, roaring off a layer of fine snow on the golden glazed tile roof.
, scared away the secret guards hiding on the eaves and beams outside the window, and frightened away the birds sleeping in the warm nests of tall trees.
Standing at the end of the bed, Eunuch Liang couldn't help but feel his head empty under the attack of the demonic sound.
Yin Reng, who was closest to the twins, felt that he had tinnitus for a moment, and the crying beside him continued. His Royal Highness, who was always graceful and calm, could not help but put on a mask of pain on his face, and at the same time stretched out his hands to comfort the lying
Xiao Yinxiang on his right, and Xiao Yinzhen standing on his left, grabbed the twins' chubby little hands, shook them up and down, and coaxed them warmly:
"Oh! Don't cry when you are thirteen or fourteen! You will see your aunt in a few days!"
Seeing the two little babies crying pitifully, like wild children that no one wanted, Kangxi felt a little sorry for the two twin boys who were still inseparable from his mother, and glared at the heartless big one.
The son conveniently threw the feather duster in his hand onto the soft couch not far away. Then he got off the bed on both knees and stepped on his feet to comfort the little sons who had started rolling on the bed and crying.
Yinzhen, who was squatting at the end of the bed, saw their Khan Ama leaving, and hurriedly stretched out his hands to turn his butt up to the sky. His elder brother who was lying on the bed helped him turn over. Yinzhen had just changed his body with the help of his fourth brother.
As soon as his buttocks, which had been slapped with a feather duster more than a dozen times, touched the bed board, he turned to face the sky. He was so painful that he wanted to burst into tears. He imitated Yinzhen's example, quickly got up, and squatted at the end of the bed.
My butt hurt so much that my eldest brother, whose childhood had become more and more perfect, suffered an unnecessary disaster. He touched the bridge of his straight nose with his hand without tears, and slapped his mouth several times, feeling extremely regretful.
, If he had known that their Khan Ama had not slept, he would have waited until dawn and then looked for an opportunity to tell his brothers about the big loophole in "true love" he had come up with!
The younger brother's position as crown prince was abolished, and the title of prince was given to the younger son born of his true love.
Well... Fortunately, Kangxi didn't have the ability to listen to people's voices, otherwise the eldest brother would have felt the painful "father's love like a mountain" again.
Kangxi walked to the bedside on foot and leaned over to pick up Xiao Shisan, who was sleeping outside the bed. His right hand happened to slide over Xiao Yinxiang's diaper-clad butt, and he felt the warmth coming from his hand.
, the wet feeling, the middle-aged emperor who had not raised a child with his own hands for a long time was extremely puzzled. Like lifting a cauldron, he pinched Xiao Yinxiang's armpit and faced the little San Gaogao, who was crying loudly at the top of his tender voice.
He raised it up and asked in confusion:
"Strange, where is the hot water coming from?"
Yinreng, who was holding Xiao Shishi's little body in his arms and comforting him, heard their Khan Ama's words. He turned around and saw Xiao Shisan being lifted high by the emperor. Suddenly, Xiao Yinxiang's body was hanging in the air, and now he was kicking
He had two short legs and was crying with his eyes closed. The back of the sapphire blue crotchless pants he wore on his lower body was mostly wet.
Even though the imperial concubine and her dexterous court ladies had already made a "Qing Dynasty version of diapers" out of plant ash and cotton, its water absorption and water storage capacity were far inferior to those of later brand diapers.
Yinreng sharply saw that there were several round light yellow water droplets on the "diaper" inside Xiao Shisan's open crotch pants. They were so surprised that Ama was touching Xiao Shisan's short legs with a silly look on her face, muttering to herself.
:
"Why is there hot water in the middle of the night?"
Thinking of the big bowl of sweet milk with a lot of honey that the two brothers drank into their bellies before falling asleep, His Highness the Prince turned away his face unbearably.
At this time, Xiao Shisi was standing on the bed with two short arms around the prince's brother's neck. The delicate features on his round face were wrinkled, his two short legs were pinched together uncomfortably, and his big red eyes were facing each other.
The prince's brother beside him shouted in a low voice with a choked voice:
"It's too papery. I can't hold it back."
Yinreng immediately understood what the Fourteenth Brother meant, and pretended to be calm and called Liang Jiugong, who was standing at the end of the bed. He moved to the bedside, handed the choking Little Fourteenth in his arms to Manager Liang, and said:
"Eunuch Liang, Xiaosi is so depressed that he can't help but take him to the cleansing room to pee and let the water flow."
"Uh, yes, I'll go right away."
Hearing the word "hush", Kangxi and Liang Jiugong, the master and servant, froze, and they all understood what the "hot water" on the thirteenth brother's short legs was.
Seeing the emperor's embarrassment again, Eunuch Liang hurriedly stretched out his arms to pick up the fourteenth brother in order to secure his head. As if there was a big tiger chasing behind him, he turned around and ran towards the clean room.
Kangxi's head was empty, and he mechanically changed the direction of the little son who was holding up his hands, so that Xiao Yinxiang turned his back to him and cried. He lowered his head to look at Xiao Shisan's little buttocks and saw the big puddle of urine.
As he was getting wet, his body became even stiffer, and at the same time, his precious son's awkward voice of explanation also sounded next to him:
"Well, Khan Ama, please call the palace servants to come in and clean up the bed and clean Xiao Shisan. The two brothers drank too much milk at night, and Xiao Shisan had to pee the diaper he wore in his crotchless pants.
It’s so thorough.”
"Peeed through the diaper?"
Kangxi followed Yinreng's voice and repeated it blankly, widening his slender eyes in confusion, and murmured: "...So the 'hot water' I touched just now is actually Xiao Shisan's urine. ?”
Yinreng closed his Ruifeng eyes helplessly and nodded.
Yinzhen, who was squatting at the end of the bed, had a look of astonishment on his face. He also widened his phoenix eyes that resembled those of his ex-father. He wanted to laugh but didn't dare to. He lowered his head and muttered silently in his heart: "Han... Ama touched Xiao Shi." San’s urine?!”
Yin Ti, who was squatting next to him, was like a quail that fell into a melon field. His mind was filled with the dark history of his Khan Ama. His round lychee eyes were round and round, and his heart was ecstatically screaming like a duck. : “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The chaotic sound coming from Qianqing Palace in the second half of the night was simply unspeakable. In short, the secret guards hiding on the beams outside the window only heard the continuous howling of ghosts and wolves coming from inside. Everyone was stunned by the noise, and their eyes were filled with mosquito coils. Circle, so dizzy.
The bed of the five brothers was soaked in urine by a boy. Kangxi was also tired from his sons' commotion, so he had to take the five brothers to sleep on his own dragon bed.
There was no room for six people to sleep on the dragon bed, so the father and son, who were very sleepy, had to sleep horizontally in a large bunk bed. The four adults and two children slept together, dazed and confused, and their minds became more and more confused. Finally, they slowly fell asleep. After they fell asleep, Qianqing Palace, which had been crying for most of the night, became completely quiet as they fell asleep.
The howling north wind outside the window gradually blew away the darkness of the night, and the heavy snowfall slowly turned into scattered light snow.
At the beginning of Mao Shi, the sky seemed to be covered with a layer of opaque black cloth.
Qingliang Temple in Mount Wutai, hundreds of kilometers away from the capital, has not snowed for several days. The stars in the sky are like diamonds inlaid on black cloth, shining brightly one by one.
Two old monks, wearing tawny winter robes and vermilion cassocks, with a combined age of over 120, were standing side by side at the back gate of the temple, raising their heads and squinting at the abnormal horoscopes in the past two days.
The howls of wolves continued in the mountains, and the howling cold wind picked up the cassocks worn by the two of them. The cassocks were blown by the cold wind like flags.
The two of them stood here for two consecutive nights, their noses and ears turned red by the cold night wind.
Xing Chi couldn't help but sniff his red nose, his eyes were so cold that he wanted to shed tears. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the stars for a while, then turned to look at his senior brother Xing Sen.
The white beard on the chin of the old monk Xingsen was blown wildly by the cold wind. He seemed to be transformed into a stargazing stone, looking up at the stars in the night sky with an extremely serious expression and counting with his right hand. something.
Xing Chi is more than a round younger than Xing Sen, and he is a monk on the way, and his ability in observing stars at night is really only half-baked. Seeing the expression on his senior brother's face, he was sometimes surprised and sometimes regretful. My curiosity was pushed to its peak, and I didn't dare to disturb him.
About half an hour later, when the stars in the night sky gradually began to dim, Xingsen sighed and retracted his gaze from the night sky to the vegetable patch not far away that was already covered with hoarfrost.
Seeing that his senior brother had finally made some move, Xing Chi hurriedly coughed twice, rubbed his almost frozen ears with the palms of his hands, and spoke with a large cloud of white water vapor in his mouth:
"Brother, you said that the royal horoscope has changed in the past two days, and something big is probably going to happen. Now I have been observing the horoscope for two consecutive nights, but what clues have I discovered?"
Hearing his junior brother's question, Xing Sen pursed his lips, turned to look at Xing Chi, sighed deeply, with some compassion and worry in his tone, shook his head and whispered:
"The Sky Moon Star is a plague star that symbolizes infectious diseases. It shines in the direction of the imperial city for two days in a row. The Purple Micro Star and the Little Emperor Star are surrounded by a thick layer of clouds. Some of the stars are dim.
, I estimate that there is probably a plague in the Forbidden City."
"What?"
When Xing Chi heard this, he immediately opened his mouth in horror.
When he left the palace to become a monk, the smallpox epidemic broke out in the Forbidden City, but it almost killed him. At that time, most of the palace concubines and palace residents died.
"It is the winter month now, and we are already susceptible to wind and cold. What if a large-scale epidemic breaks out in the palace and spreads to the people!"
Xing Chi, who was a little confused by this unexpected news, could not help but anxiously clasping his hands together and walking back and forth on the bluestone floor at the entrance of the back mountain.
Xingsen looked up at the sky again, stroking the gray beard under his chin with his right hand, squinting his wrinkled eyes, and sighed quietly:
"There are really too many variables. One variable can create countless uncertainties. One variable creates two, and two creates three. The superposition of variables will disrupt everything that is established."
The old monk Xingchi, who didn't quite understand what the variables in his senior brother's words meant, pressed his lips together tightly, looked at Xingsen anxiously and asked:
"Senior brother, can you possibly see what huge changes will happen around Ziwei Star and Little Emperor Star after this plague?"
Xingsen clasped his hands together, made a Buddha name, and sighed softly:
"It's good, it's good, changes are everywhere. I saw that the light of Ziwei Star and Little Emperor Star became brighter and their positions were closer. I wonder what kind of huge changes happened in the palace to cause such a change.
With the big changes in the astrology, the relationship between the monarch and the prince has become closer. It is estimated that the things that junior brother is worried about in the future will probably not happen."
"really?"
Even though he knows that he shouldn't be happy at the moment, what Xing Chi is most worried about is that in the future, as his son and grandson get older, the relationship between the monarch and the prince will become unbalanced.
The excellent prince who had been cultivated for many years was abolished, causing turmoil in the country.
Now that he heard that something he had been worrying about for so long had unexpectedly turned around, even though the old monk Xing Chi had converted to Buddhism for half his life, he still couldn't help but feel a touch of relief in his eyes, but then he thought of that incident more than 20 years ago.
The death toll caused by the epidemic made him frown again.
Xingsen saw all the changes in his junior brother's expression, reached out and patted Xingchi on the shoulder, and sighed:
"Junior brother, you should know that in this world, every drink and every peck has a certain fate, and so does a person's life. Now the relationship between Ziweixing and Little Emperor Star is stable, and the starlight is better than before. Accordingly, you have to pay.
At some other cost, I saw that there were more than a dozen small stars that were originally king stars around Ziwei Star. Before their light could shine brightly, they all dimmed. If I expected it to be true, I'm afraid."
"Before the light shines brightly, everything becomes dim." This kind of saying sounds ominous. The king star not only symbolizes Xuan Ye's sons, but also represents the younger princes in the future clan who will inherit the royal titles from their fathers.
Xing Chi repeated these words silently in his mind. After speculating in his mind for a moment, he couldn't wait to ask:
"Senior brother, what are you afraid of?"
"Do you mean to say that many of my grandsons will die young this time?"
"No, no."
Xingsen frowned and said:
"The children who have been born in the royal family are naturally blessed by the dragon spirit and the national destiny. The national destiny of the Qing Dynasty is rising day by day. It will be a long time before the fortune of the dynasty declines. Although the epidemic has killed many people, it is far from causing the imperial family.
More than a dozen king stars were lost in the clan."
"Children who are born will be blessed by God. So, senior brother, are the strings of little stars in your mouth referring to the children who are still in their mother's womb?"
Xing Chi was even more confused after hearing this. He looked up at the sky again and found that faint skylight was gradually emerging from the mountains in the distance, and the starlight above his head was getting lighter and lighter.
"I can't tell whether the child is in the mother's womb or not, but when the emperor came to the temple before, I saw from his face that the emperor is a very good person for heirs. After this battle, it is very likely that the emperor will be a good person in the future.
Children will become extremely rare. I speculate that the dimmed dozens of small stars probably symbolize the little brothers of the future emperor. I think the chance of them being born in the future will become very slim..."
After Xingsen said this, he gently shook the sandalwood Buddha string in his hand, smoothed the corners of his red cassock that had been disturbed by the cold wind, and stopped talking.
Xing Chi, who was standing next to him, seemed to understand what he heard. He looked up at the sky and pursed his thin lips, wondering if it was possible that Xuan Ye would give birth to more than a dozen sons in the future, but because of this incident, those dozen
All my sons are gone???
You cannot lie about the secrets of heaven, and no matter how powerful a person is, it is impossible to guess everything about the future.
Even though Xing Chi didn't understand, he didn't ask his senior brother again.
The two brothers stood at the entrance of the back mountain again, looking up at the stars above their heads, one by one being hidden by the bright sky.
It was not until the distant morning bell of "dong dong dong" came from the attic of the temple that the vicissitudes of life and the Zen atmosphere were heard. The two brothers turned side by side and walked along the bluestone road back to their respective Zen rooms to wash up, have breakfast, and go to bed.
Morning class.
…
In the past dynasties, when a large-scale epidemic broke out, those in power would use limited medical resources on the most critical groups.
In the feudal dynasty, the Chuxiu Palace, which is completely closed at the moment, is home to the most skilled imperial physician, and all kinds of medicinal materials are also available.
The medical resources of Prince Chun's Palace outside the palace are second only to Chuxiu Palace.
It's a pity that the palaces near Xian'an Palace are inhabited by nobles of low status, such as Chang Yao and Zheng Yao. Those who are seriously ill are not even qualified to enter the house.
There are the most patients here but the least medical resources.
The sky is getting brighter, and the snowflakes in the sky have stopped falling. Under the eaves, under the eaves, in abandoned pavilions, and in the sheltered corners above your head, you can see faces that are burning red, bodies covered with rashes, and people holding torn cotton wool.
The humble palace people were huddled together in twos and threes, coughing incessantly.
The imperial guards, who had been vaccinated with pox or had pox since childhood and were immune to the terrible smallpox, were like sculptures, holding the sabers in their hands and looking at the infected palace people here.
They were ordered to maintain order here. On the one hand, they were to prevent the sick palace concubines from escaping and infecting other people in the Forbidden City with the smallpox virus. On the other hand, they were here to keep the palace concubines who had died in time to douse them with the virus.
The kerosene was dragged to the open space and cremated on the spot.
The young doctors, who were still young in qualifications and had just entered the profession and were not used to seeing life and death, looked at the painful cries of the palace people. Some of them could not bear the pain, biting their tongues and hitting the wall. The two of them helped each other and pinched each other.
There are many people who grab each other's neck and send them on their way at the same time.
These young doctors who used to prepare medicines for the noble masters according to the prescriptions in the imperial hospital, looked at the scene in front of them that was like a hell on earth, they felt uncomfortable in their hearts, their eyes were red from holding back, and there was white sweat on their mouths and noses.
The scarf left a deep mark under their eyes, which made them feel heartbroken and annoyed.
My heart aches because as a doctor, I cannot take up my responsibility to save lives and heal the wounded. I watch my patients die painfully before their eyes, or they end their own lives by suicide in order to seek relief at the end of their lives.
A relief.
They were upset that in the past, after they finished their errands, they had a lot of time to read medical books. Why did they waste their time in vain and failed to take advantage of their free time to read more medical books and ask more questions?
Senior doctors asked for advice to improve their medical skills.
If their medical skills were more sophisticated, would they be able to save more lives now? Could they also reduce the number of deaths?
But there were so many patients on hand that they were so busy that they didn't even have time to worry. They numbly and mechanically diagnosed their pulses and told them the severity of their symptoms and which isolation area they were staying in.
Boxes of medicinal materials were consumed at an extremely fast speed, and the eunuchs who were serving as doctors and eunuchs were stirring the bitter medicine soup in the pot with large iron spoons.
Pot after pot of dark soup was stirred down, and their arms were so numb that they had no strength at all. The firelight also made their faces black and red, and their foreheads were covered with fine beads of sweat.
Even so, these medical eunuchs did not dare to stop for a moment, because most of the people who were seriously ill were their colleagues, and their red eyes were full of grief.
The imperial guards poured barrels of kerosene on the corpse. When the corpse was burned, an unpleasant smell would come out. After the kerosene was sprinkled, thick black smoke would rise straight from the bluestone floor.
Against the gray and white gloomy sky.
The snow on the roof of the main hall of the Qianqing Palace was cleared away by the secret guards with big brooms. Kangxi, wearing a crescent white winter robe, climbed up the stairs to the roof of the Qianqing Palace, with his hands behind his back facing Xian'an Palace
Looking in the direction.
Liang Jiugong stood silently behind the emperor.
The five brothers were all locked up in a warm hall under the glazed tiles by their Khan Ama, and were not allowed to go anywhere.
The two masters and servants on the roof looked at the black smoke that was rising one after another from Xian'an Palace. The two stood motionless, and the cold wind howled and swept away the smoke piled on the branches, courtyard walls, and other roofs.
There was snow, and Kangxi's pair of slender phoenix eyes were blown red by the north wind.
The days were anxious and unbearable, one day, two days, three days...
About ten days later, until November 14, which was the day before the sixth death anniversary of Queen Xiaozhao and the eve of Princess Kejing's sixth birthday, there was no more frightening black smoke rising around Xian'an Palace.
.
After the smallpox attack, nearly half of the palace residents were infected, and the Forbidden City, which was almost paralyzed, slowly began to move again.
Those who were strong and survived this calamity had lifelong immunity against smallpox, while those who were weak and unlucky all perished. After the corpses were cremated, their ashes returned to dust early. Earth, this life is too bitter, so that they can be reincarnated into a wealthy family in the next life and spend their lives in peace.
Kangxi, who was sitting in the main hall of Qianqing Palace with his five sons, finally heard the news outside the palace from Wei Zhu after many days.
"Your Majesty, when the epidemic broke out in the palace, there were rumors outside the palace that cowpox was ineffective. Nowadays, the common people are in danger, and every household has closed its doors. The vaccination site at the yamen entrance has become extremely desolate. It is sparse and sparse every day. People who don’t come here to get vaccinated.”
Wei Zhu took out a blue-sealed folder from his arms and respectfully presented it to the emperor who was sitting on the armchair with both hands.
Kangxi was silent for a while, then reached out to take the zhezi from Wei Zhu's hand. He found that the total number of vaccination sites in the capital these days was less than a hundred people. He pursed his thin lips and put the zhezi aside on the red sandalwood. On the wooden square table, he held his forehead with a headache and said:
"The method of cowpox needs to be improved. When the epidemic is completely over, you can post a royal notice outside the palace and write down clearly the cause of the epidemic in the palace. Most of the people who died were not vaccinated with cowpox, and almost none of the people who were vaccinated died. Yes, cowpox needs to be promoted, and people have to get vaccinated."
"Yes, I remember."
Wei Zhu nodded hurriedly.
Yinzhen and Yinzhen sat on the armchair on the left side with a baby in their arms. Yinzhen sat side by side with his brothers. Hearing the rumors outside the palace, he understood that there must be Wu Yashi's handiwork behind it. He lowered his head in embarrassment.
"Has the death toll been calculated?"
Kangxi saw the look on his fourth son's face, and after a moment of tangle in his heart, the coldness in his eyes lit up, and he asked Wei Zhu softly.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing behind the imperial armchair, also raised his eyelids and glanced at Wei Zhu.
Wei Zhu bit down and took out a black-sealed booklet from her arms. She lowered her head and presented it to the emperor with slightly trembling hands.
When Kangxi saw the booklet, which was three times thicker than the blue-sealed booklet, a flash of sadness flashed in his eyes. He reached out to take the black-sealed booklet, and looked through the pages with deep eyes.
In the isolation point of Prince Chun's palace, five little brothers under the age of three died in the clan.
Four nobles were gone from the palace, five were promised, and eight were still there, almost all of them names he had never heard of.
The palace maids, eunuchs, and nuns died countless times. A rough calculation showed that one-sixth of the palace people in the Forbidden City were gone.
After quickly reading through the book in his hand, Kangxi closed his eyes in discomfort.
He threw the black-sealed booklet on the small square rosewood table with a click, rubbed his forehead with a headache, and ordered Liang Jiugong, who was standing behind him, without turning his head:
"Liang Jiugong, you will go to my private treasury later to get some treasures, leave the palace and send them to the palaces of the royal families of the children who died in infancy. This time it is a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster. Let the ashes of those children who died in infancy be cremated. Put it in a jade box and bury it in the ground."
"Yes, I understand."
Liang Jiugong hurriedly agreed in a low voice.
When Yinreng and Yinti heard this, they also understood that their little cousins must have died in infancy. After all, smallpox is an infectious disease with a very high fatality rate, and it would be a disaster for young children to encounter it.
When Yinzhen heard the word "man-made disaster", the color on his lips faded away, and his head was buried lower. Although children do not say anything wrong to their parents, at this moment, Yinzhen really felt sorry for the cruel Wu Yashi.
I felt disgusted, and when I thought of her blood flowing on my body, my face turned even paler, and I also became angry.
"Wei Zhu, take the brochure and go to the counselor's room later to find out the family situation of these dead palace residents. If there are still family members alive, go to the private treasury to get a batch of silver coins and give them to each person.
If it goes into the hands of their families, it should all be treated as pensions."
"yes."
"Also, go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs again, add titles to the concubines who died of illness, upgrade them to half a level, send the ashes to the imperial mausoleum for burial, and provide compensation to their families."
"Yes, I remember."
Yinzhen, who was sitting aside, heard that Khan Ama had assigned the pension task to his two confidants in a short time. He finally plucked up the courage and looked at Kangxi who was sitting on the main seat with his red phoenix eyes, and said in a trembling voice
:
"Khan Ama, I, I also want to contribute to those who have died of illness. Please take away all my small treasury and take out all the money in it to use it for pensions."
"Okay, I'm sure, Xiaosi, Wu Yashi is Wu Yashi, you are you, this matter has nothing to do with you, but Khan Ama is still very happy that you can make this decision."
Kangxi sighed, looked at his fourth son and said warmly.
Yinzhen looked at the tolerant look of their Khan Ama, and his eyes became wet.
"Khan Ama, I also have money in my little treasury, let's take it out together."
Yinreng, who was holding Little Thirteen in his arms, also spoke.
Yinti also nodded in agreement.
The twins widened their eyes in confusion, sucking their little fingers in their mouths, distressed, wondering whether they had a small treasury.
At this time, Ke Jing, who was dressed in orange with white fox fur, hurriedly crossed the threshold, opened the cotton curtain and ran into the hall, and said happily:
"Khan Ama, Khan Ama, the lockdown in Chuxiu Palace has been lifted. Empress Jing, Empress An, Xiaowu and Xiaoliu are all safe and sound. They have survived."
"Bang bang bang!"
Several sounds of armchairs falling to the ground were heard one after another.
When Ke Jing quickly walked around the screen and saw his Khan, his brother, and his brothers, he saw the six father and son standing on the carpet with their eyes shining brightly, and several well-made armchairs fell behind them.