Turning over to the next year, before the New Year celebrations were over in the first month, it snowed several times in succession.
Auspicious snow heralds a good year.
The snowflakes fell quickly and densely, falling from the sky in a free and easy manner, almost blinding people's eyes.
The thirty-third year of Kangxi’s reign was another triennial year of the Eight Banners Draft.
During the general election in the 30th year of Kangxi's reign, very few people entered the harem. At that time, the officials below were still guessing that when the general election was held 80% later, fewer and fewer people would enter the harem. After all, the young prince in the future,
The fortunes of the princesses and the emperor are at odds, and the emperor doesn’t want to have children anymore! The newlyweds will be treated as vases for nothing!
But no one expected that there would be no new members in the emperor’s harem this year!
No matter whether it was the Manchu Army Banner or the Han Army Banner, none of the girls who were drafted entered the Forbidden City. This surprised the officials of the previous dynasty and the concubines in the harem.
At the beginning of the cold spring, Kangxi sat in the warm imperial study room, holding a cinnabar pen in his hand, flipping through the draft roster, as well as the archives of graduates from the Princess Academy and the training camp for prospective princes, and gave some of the appropriate age to the clan.
The nephews and nieces pulled the red rope of Yue Lao and completed the holy marriage.
The Eight Banners general election ended in a hurry, so fast that people couldn't help but gasp.
Some officials and concubines who are not bright-minded are secretly guessing that the quality of this year's draft girls is so poor that none of them can impress the emperor and be willing to accept them as concubines in the harem?
But Nalan Mingzhu, who was thoughtful and thoughtful, could not help but vaguely guess the Sacred Heart from the draft results. Could it be that the emperor intended to abdicate early one day in the future and let the prince ascend the throne? That is why he deliberately reduced the number of his concubines?
As soon as this ridiculous idea passed through Nalan Mingzhu's mind, he shook his head in a hurry and didn't dare to think about it anymore. Even if the emperor becomes the Supreme Emperor, people still have to enter the harem. There is a 80% chance that this show is really the best choice.
If a girl is not good-looking, she must not be in the emperor's eyes.
Although Nalan Mingzhu thought so, he still took the time to call his second son Nalan Kuixu to his side and told him in detail that he must be a good companion to His Highness. It would be great to become His Highness's confidant.
Nalan Kuexu didn't know why his Ama suddenly told him this, so he nodded in agreement with a confused look on his face.
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Princess Qinghu, the eldest princess Chunxi and the first princess Ke Jing, who got married the year before last, have all given birth to beautiful daughters safely.
This year, Princess Duanjing, who was born only three days after His Highness the Crown Prince, will also have her wedding to Ergar Zang in the capital, and she will have to move to Monan Mongolia.
In the spring of March, the imperial garden in the palace is in full bloom. Peach blossoms, pear blossoms, magnolias, etc. are in full bloom, and weeping willows are also spreading their buds in the warm breeze.
The third princess quietly spent the Longevity Festival in the Forbidden City and celebrated the birthday of her Khan Amma. She wore a phoenix crown and red makeup, with red eyes in Jingyang Palace, and met her adoptive mother, concubine Wang Jia, and her biological mother.
Zhaojia, a nobleman from Bugui, hugged Yiyi and said goodbye, wearing a
Wearing a fiery red wedding dress, like the eldest sister and the first sister in front, she got into the wedding car, took the dowry prepared for her by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, took the three thousand soldiers assigned to her by her Khan Ama, and went with her father-in-law Gar Zang.
We left Jingyang Palace together and prepared to leave the Forbidden City and embark on the road to Monan.
Princess Duanjing has a very quiet and gentle temperament, and is the most considerate among the seven princesses.
It is precisely because of her soft temper that the fourth princess Ke Jing has never been worried about her third sister. She is afraid that when Duan Jing marries to Mongolia, her consort will take advantage of her.
Therefore, the day before the wedding, Ke Jing went to Jingyang Palace, patted the back of her dignified hand and said a lot of words of advice to her third sister, nothing more than:
Third sister, if you are wronged, you must send someone to tell the eldest sister and the first sister, and write your grievance in a letter home to Khan Amma. Make good use of the three thousand soldiers that Khan Amma gave you, and don’t report the good news.
Report your worries!
Duanjing looked at her fourth sister, who had the strongest temperament. She looked like a little housekeeper, twisting her beautiful eyebrows, opening and closing her red lips, and told her a lot of things with her cherry mouth, holding her belly.
I almost laughed to tears.
She just has a quiet temperament and is not a pushover.
After all, studying at the Princess Academy for so many years was not in vain. That night, the two sisters slept huddled in the same bed, biting their ears and whispering a lot.
When Duanjing and Erzang, who were wearing wedding clothes, were about to walk out of the Shenwu Gate, they couldn't help but turn their heads and glance at the people standing behind them to see her off.
The imperial concubine, Concubine An, Concubine Xuan, and others were all wearing auspicious clothes today. They took the fourth princess Ke Jing, the fifth princess Wen Xian, the sixth princess Chunqi, and the seventh princess Wen Ke to stand at the door of Shenwu, looking at Duan Jing with red eyes.
Princess.
Duan Jing suppressed her sore nose, raised her arms and bowed down to the imperial concubine and other teachers. Then she and her consort knelt on the bluestone palace road at their feet, facing Ning Shouxin.
palace
The direction was in the direction of Qianqing Palace. After kowtowing three times, he was supported by his concubine and stepped on the pedals, and got into the wedding car. Then he led the convoy, accompanied by the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums, and the wheels rolled away from the palace.
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The imperial concubine and everyone stood at the gate of Shenwumen, watching the wedding convoy turn into a small black dot before turning back to the palace.
at the same moment.
Kangxi was also wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, holding in his arms his eldest granddaughter Halahazi, who already knew every word, and stood on the wall of the Forbidden City, looking at the quiet wedding convoy of his third daughter.
When it was gone, he sighed, turned around and walked down the stairs.
Liang Jiugong also took another look in the direction where the motorcade left, sighing silently in his heart, and followed the steps of Long Live Master and climbed down the stairs.
The one-and-a-half-year-old little Halahach is wearing a red dress with gold trim today. Around her neck is a gold ruby necklace that the Empress Dowager gifted her at the wedding banquet. Her eyebrows are rouged by her mother, Irgenjue Luoshi.
Ordered a circle
Her face is moist and red, her little round face is plump and fleshy, and it is very fair and tender. When you read a few words, the soft flesh on both sides of her cheeks that look like tofu trembles slightly. Just looking at her makes you look like an elderly person.
I feel that the little girl is well fed and is blessed.
The little one didn't know that from now on, she would hardly see her third aunt. She only knew that the palace was very lively today and she could see red silk everywhere.
Little Halahachi stayed in her arms, putting his white and tender little fingers into his mouth and sucking them. He had exactly the same round lychee eyes as her Ama Yinti, which were black, bright and furry.
He twisted his little head left and right and looked to the right. What did he see?
They were all happy, babbling, clapped the little chubby hands and said some words. Although Kangxi couldn't understand most of them, looking at the little one's happy face, he felt in his heart that another daughter was getting married, and he was worried about it.
The melancholy that came over me has faded a little.
Kangxi had his eldest granddaughter in his arms to comfort him, but in the main hall of Jingyang Palace at this moment, the woman's sobs never stopped.
After Duanjing and the three-faced concubine left Jingyang Palace and headed to the Shenwu Gate in the west, the tears of Bu Guiren, who had only given birth to one daughter in his life, immediately burst into tears. He sat limply on the ground and held the handkerchief in his hand.
Covering her mouth, she shed tears.
Her status was low and she was not like an imperial concubine who could follow the Long Live Lord on a tour of Mongolia. Now that her daughter had married far away, if nothing serious happened, today would be the last time she and her daughter would see each other in this life.
When she thought of this, Zhaojia couldn't help but want to burst into tears, but today was a good day for her daughter to get married, and the palace rules were so strict that she couldn't even cry freely, and could only suppress her face until it turned red.
Tears fell down her cheeks like broken beads.
Jingbin and Mingui can understand Zhaojia's mood at this time.
Today they sent away the third princess. In a few years, the seventh princess will get married in Jingyang Palace like her third sister.
Wang Jia and Zhang Jia chased all the palace attendants following them in the main hall, and imitated Zhaojia's example, sitting directly on the carpet left and right. They did not say a word to comfort Zhaojia.
She stopped crying, and instead stayed silent while the Bugui people digested the pain of leaving their daughter.
"Huang, Ma, mama~"
The imperial concubine, who was wearing a bright yellow auspicious dress, sniffed her red nose before returning from the Shenwu Gate to the main hall of the Chuxiu Palace. There was a sweet sound like milk mixed with honey coming from behind her.
When Qingyan heard the sound, she knew it was the little Harahach. She quickly stretched out her hand to press the red corners of her eyes, then turned around and saw Kangxi holding his eldest granddaughter across the threshold and walking into the hall.
A child's mind is the purest. Even if she can't tell who treats her well, it's like a bright mirror in her heart.
Concubine Hui, who favored sons over daughters, did not like her granddaughter. Although in the past, when Ilgenjueluo took her daughter to the Yanxi Palace to pay respects to Concubine Hui as usual, Nala would not treat Hara as harshly as a vicious grandmother.
Hatch, but his attitude is also quite cold.
Emotions are cultivated in both directions. If Nala is not close to little Halakhach, her eldest granddaughter will naturally not be close to her either.
Ilgenjueluo often took his daughter to Chuxiu Palace and Ningshou New Palace. The imperial concubine and the empress dowager loved the emperor's eldest granddaughter, Long Live Lord.
Naturally, the little one also likes her Queen Mother and Ukuma Mama very much. Every time she sees the Queen Mother from a distance in the palace, her eyes will brighten, she stretches out her two short arms, and babbling to her Queen Mother.
Hug her.
When Qingyan saw her eldest granddaughter, she couldn't wait to stretch out her arms for her to hug. She smiled and stepped forward, reaching out to take the little Harahazi, who was dressed like an auspicious purse, from Kangxi's arms, and used her two arms to
He hugged the little one's soft little body, freed up his right hand and tapped the tip of the little guy's nose and said with a smile:
"Ah! How come Halahazi looks so beautiful today!"
"Uh, uh, cool, do it."
Little Harahach understood that the imperial concubine was praising her, and immediately smiled with her round eyes turning into crescent moons, hugged the imperial concubine's neck with two short arms like lotus roots, and kissed Qingyan's side affectionately.
Face, he said with a smile and a milky voice.
Two people who are not related by blood and are only nominally grandson get along better than the two who are biologically related.
Being kissed by the little one in her arms, Qingyan couldn't help but laugh.
Kangxi saw the big and small people in front of him kissing and hugging each other, and his eyes couldn't help but soften.
Catching a glimpse of the very fine lines appearing in the corners of her beloved concubine's eyes when she smiled, Kangxi couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The health of their generation had really begun to decline. His first brother Fuquan's braids had turned gray. What he kept saying all day long was that when his son Changquan got married and had children, he would give the title to his son and support himself in his old age.
Nowadays, even the corners of his beloved concubine's eyes have fine lines. Even if Kangxi doesn't want to admit it, he has to admit that in a few years, he will probably be like his first brother Fuquan, waiting for time to mature and retiring early.
It wasn't until Qingyan finished teasing the little one in her arms that she realized Kangxi's intention of coming to Chuxiu Palace to look for her while holding his eldest granddaughter.
Yinti's mansion outside the palace will be completed by May, and Yinti has paid a discount in advance. In the second half of the year, he, Fujin, and his daughter will move out of Nansan Residence and live outside the palace.
Concubine Rong went to Qianqing Palace many times, saying that Yinzhi was old enough to get married. This was the year of the draft. It was an auspicious year. It was best for Yinzhi to arrange the wedding with Dong E from the Pengchun family of Dutong. .
Kangxi also agreed to Ma Jia's request and planned to ask the Ministry of Rites to arrange the wedding of his third elder brother after the Dragon Boat Festival.
Qingyan hugged the little one in her arms and sat on the carved armchair. While listening to Kangxi's words, she smiled and nodded in agreement.
When Kangxi opened his mouth to talk about these two things, Qingyan heard a faint feeling of melancholy in Kangxi's mouth. It was nothing more than the feeling that time passed too fast. In the blink of an eye, his daughters and sons were getting married and starting a business one by one, and he was also I am slowly starting to age, and my energy is no longer what it used to be.
But isn’t birth, aging, sickness and death a natural law that everyone must follow?
As the children grow older, they naturally have to let go of some things.
Kangxi watched his beloved concubine face aging and life and death with an indifferent expression. Even though he said that his beloved concubine had fine lines at the corners of her eyes, his beloved concubine also said that she was already in her thirties, and if there were not even a single fine line on her face, Long, then he is no longer a monster?
When Kangxi heard this, although the corners of his mouth were raised, he was sighing in his heart.
For an emperor, aging is really a terrible thing. Even if his body has just started to decline, he still feels a little terrible.
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In the blink of an eye, nearly a month has passed.
The flowers of the fruit trees planted in the front yard of Chuxiu Palace have basically stopped blooming, and the small green fruits are hidden among the lush green leaves.
April 19th is the annual birthday of the imperial concubine and the fourth prince Yinzhen.
After the mother and son finished eating the longevity noodles, they blew out the candles on the birthday cake. Qingyan was thirty-five years old, and Yinzhen was seventeen years old.
After the mother and son celebrated their birthdays, a few more days followed.
Prince Yinreng also celebrated his tenth birthday in Chuxiu Palace.
The Prince's Mansion outside the palace has been built for almost a year, and the decoration inside has been completed. However, because Yinreng has not yet got married, the Prince's Mansion has not yet had a master except for the servants who sweep the courtyard. Live in it.
On the first day after Yinreng's birthday, he and Kangxi took the imperial concubine, the fourth elder brother, the thirteenth elder brother, the fourteenth elder brother and little Harahaqi out of the palace to visit the prince's mansion.
The Prince's Mansion and Changchun Garden were started and completed at the same time.
The Prince's Mansion can be said to be a small and condensed Changchun Garden, with beautiful scenery and scattered pavilions and pavilions. There is a running water in the mansion and a large group of brightly colored koi carp.
Little Harahach stayed in the arms of her Queen Mother and saw in the clear water, chubby koi fish swimming around with their beautiful tails swaying, their eyes widened, and they used their milk to
The chubby white hand pointed at the koi milk in the water and said:
"Yuyu, eat!"
"Oh, eldest niece, why do you want to eat everything you see?"
When Yinzhen heard that her eldest niece actually wanted to eat koi, which symbolizes good luck, she burst out laughing.
Little Harahach seemed to understand that her fourteenth uncle was "laughing" at her, and immediately turned around in the imperial concubine's arms, facing Yinzhen with the round back of her head, making a show of disapproval of her fourteenth uncle.
Looking good.
Qingyan knew that the one-and-a-half-year-old baby was very hungry, so she ordered her confidant, the eldest maid, who was following her:
"Lu, go and get Little Gege's milk bottle."
Bai Lu nodded quickly, turned around and left with a smile.
After a while, little Halahach was holding her bottle, holding her pacifier in her mouth, drinking tons of warm milk, and no longer shouted about eating "fish".
Kangxi and the imperial concubine took their sons to visit the Prince's Mansion again.
When Qingyan saw a courtyard with many fruit trees planted in the front yard of Chuxiu Palace. The location was very good and the surrounding environment was very quiet. Before she could open her mouth, she asked in confusion what this courtyard was for.
Yinreng smiled and said:
"Aunt, this is the courtyard specially left for you. If you feel tired of living in the palace or Changchun Garden in the future, you can come and live here in Baocheng for a while to change your mood."
As soon as Yinzhen finished speaking, Yinzhen and the twins also started to say that the three of them would also have a yard for the imperial concubine in their future mansion.
When the imperial concubine heard that the four brothers wanted to leave a nursing home for her, she couldn't help but feel dumbfounded. The eldest granddaughter in her arms was trembling with laughter.
Kangxi's face turned dark.
If he dies, some concubines with children can indeed leave the palace and live outside the palace with their sons, but he is just old, not dead!
He was still alive and well, but these little bastards started to leave a nursing home for the imperial concubine without even a blink of an eye.
Kangxi took the eldest granddaughter who was concentrating on drinking from the imperial concubine, took the imperial concubine's arm with one hand, and said, "My Changchun Garden is so big, it won't be able to accommodate you, the empress."
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After saying this, Kangxi called Liang Jiugong, took Bai Lu with him, and hurriedly left the Prince's Mansion. He asked the palace servants to drive three carriages, left his four bastard sons, and returned to the Forbidden City.
The four brothers were suddenly thrown out of the palace by their Khan Ama. They couldn't help but look at each other in shock. God and earth, they just habitually left a courtyard for their mother/aunt to retire in the mansion. They never cursed them.
Ma’s thoughts.
Now they came with carriages, and now their Khan Amma has taken away all the carriages, as if they were not allowed to ride back to the palace.
The four brothers had no choice but to touch their noses in embarrassment and walk to the palace.
When I met officials on the road, I subconsciously avoided them because the weather was really hot. As soon as I walked, my head was covered with sweat, my collar was wet, my whole body was gone, and I looked extremely embarrassed.
After the four brothers returned to the Forbidden City, they did not dare to take a bath and went to the Qianqing Palace together. Khan and Ama coaxed them for a long time until their hungry stomachs growled and their thirsty throats almost burned.
Their Khan Ama finally had a kind heart and asked them to go back to their respective courtyards and reflect.
As soon as the four brothers walked out of the Qianqing Gate, Fourteenth Yinzhen swallowed his saliva and whispered to his three brothers in a hoarse voice, "Could it be that men also have the menopause that their empress said?"
When Yinreng, Yinzhen, and Yinxiang saw that the four of them had just walked out of the Qianqing Palace, the fool Shi Shi dared to say this, so they hurriedly stepped forward and covered his mouth, dragging Yinzhen's body out in a hurry.
But Yinzhen's words still left traces in the hearts of the three brothers, isn't that right? After tasting it carefully, their Khan and Ama did seem to have entered menopause, with moods and moods uncertain.
well!
It’s difficult to deal with an elderly man!
By the time Kangxi's anger aroused by his four stupid sons was completely gone, the royal family had finished eating rice dumplings, watched the dragon boat race at Beihai Imperial Garden, and had finished celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival.
At the end of May, Kangxi sent a decree to the Ministry of Rites to prepare for Yinzhi's wedding before Ma Jia went to the Qianqing Palace to urge him.
In early June, red silk was once again hung in the courtyard of the secondary institute of Nansan Institute.
Concubine Rong was also wearing a deep red flag dress, standing in the courtyard of the Second House to arrange her son's marriage, just like Concubine Hui in previous years.
Nan San Institute once again became lively with gongs and drums.
As the only third-generation emperor in the palace, little Harahach was once again dressed as a lucky doll by her mother-in-law. At dusk, she went to the wedding room to roll the wedding bed for her third uncle and third aunt.
Yinzhi and Dong E, a talented and beautiful couple obsessed with literature, were sitting in their wedding room at night. Yinzhi, who had basically stopped stuttering after growing up, took a jade Ruyi and opened Dong E's red hijab. Looking at the beautiful Dong E, he stuttered again for some reason, and said to Dong E in a stuttering voice:
"Fu, Fu, Fujin, you, no, I will definitely treat you well in the future."
"Master, my mother-in-law, you don't need to worry about her. She is just too talkative, but in fact, her heart is not bad."
Dong E was naturally nervous when facing the wedding night. She hid her two delicate white hands in her red sleeves and clasped them tightly, recalling the little book her mother-in-law had given her before going to bed last night. , those messy little figures were popping up uncontrollably in her head. She suddenly heard Yinzhi's words and subconsciously raised her head to look at Yinzhi.
When the two looked at each other, Yinzhi's ears couldn't help but feel hot.
He touched his earlobe with his hand and said with a smile:
"Fu, Fujin, I'm going to order the meals. You go take a bath first."
Yinzhi stepped back as he spoke, and with a "bang", he hit the round huanghuali wood table in the center of the wedding room and almost fell down.
Dong E felt pain just by hearing that sound.
Concubine Rong, who was lying outside the door listening to the noise, couldn't help but blush slightly when she heard the "bang" sound. She was thinking in her heart, what a big noise the young couple made.
Seeing the urging look from Ma Jia, Concubine Rong also hurriedly walked out of the hall with light steps and walked all the way to Zhongcui Palace.
The young couple in the inner room had no idea that Concubine Rong was outside listening to the wedding ceremony just now. After regaining consciousness, Dong E hurriedly got up from the bed and planned to help Yinzhi and see if there were any bruises on his waist. .
Yinzhi did feel severe pain on the right side of his waist, but when he saw Dong E coming to help him, he hurriedly waved his hands to refuse, stood up from the chair while pressing the table, and reluctantly walked out, planning to let his personal eunuch
Show him the wound.
Today is his wedding night, and he doesn't want his Fujin to think he's not good because of this stupid thing!
Dong E looked at Yinzhi's shy look with red ears and suppressed a smile. She never expected that the third elder brother was actually quite dumb.
Of the first five elder brothers, the eldest elder brother is the eldest son of the concubine, the prince is the second son, the fourth elder brother is the eldest son of the imperial concubine, and the fifth elder brother was raised by the empress dowager.
The third elder brother is a little inconspicuous among them, and his presence is weaker.
Dong E originally thought that this person had a cold personality, but he never expected that he was a bit stupid!
See how her ears turn red?
Somehow, Mrs. Dong E's nervousness about having a bridal chamber disappeared. She called her dowry maids in and let the palace people wait on her to take a bath in the clean room.
On the other side, Ma Jia and her old nanny Ma Jia hurriedly walked along the bluestone palace road, covered with moonlight, from Nansansuo back to Zhongcui Palace. As soon as they returned to the main hall, Ma Jia walked into her inner room.
In the room, he sent all the serving palace guests away, then took out a few slightly faded clothes with rough edges from the secret compartment at the head of the bed, lowered his head and stroked the clothes, and whispered with tears in his eyes, "
"Chengrui, Saiyinchahun, Changhua, Changsheng, and Eniang have finally raised you fifth brothers. The four of you in heaven must bless you fifth brothers and sisters and give birth to the emperor's eldest grandson as soon as possible.
If "your fifth brother" really becomes the new king, the four of you will also be posthumously named princes, and you can leave your name in history...
Concubine Rong silently finished the second half of the sentence in her heart, then she leaned over the four small clothes and burst into tears.