In the midsummer of June and July, the weather in the capital is very hot, and the cicadas in Changchun Garden are constantly chirping.
Autumn has just begun in early August, and the hot weather has cooled down a bit. Kangxi and his entire family moved back to the Forbidden City from Changchun Garden where they had spent the summer.
During the day, Yinti was on duty at the Ministry of War.
Dafujin Ilgenjue Luo took advantage of his daughter's free time to sleep, and began to organize the palace officials in the South Third Palace to pack their gifts one after another.
After celebrating this year's Mid-Autumn Festival in the palace, their family will move out of the Forbidden City to a newly built mansion outside the palace.
I think it was because the day of moving to a new house was getting closer, and Ergen felt that Luo was in a very good mood.
During the day when I was taking care of my baby in the Nansan Home, I could not help but look at my little girl with a round face and chubby face, swaying like a little duck, learning to walk on the carpet with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
He hummed a light tune happily.
Dong E of Sanfujin, who lives in the yard of the second house next door, has often gone to the yard of the first house to play with her mother and daughter since her wedding day.
After all, before entering the palace, Irgenjueluo and Dong E were classmates at the Princess Academy. As students who graduated from the same class, the relationship between them was quite close.
On August 10th, it was the beginning of the afternoon.
The little Halahach was wearing a beige dress. After waking up from his nap, he used his two short legs to wander around the hall.
When she walked hard to the door of the hall, stooped slightly and laid her body on the high mahogany threshold, trying to turn over like a little turtle, she saw that she was wearing a rose-red flag uniform and had a gorgeous appearance.
Sanfujin, wearing flowerpot-soled shoes, raised his legs and crossed the threshold, walking into the front yard paved with bluestone floor tiles.
Seeing Mrs. Dong E, the little baby's round lychee eyes lit up, and she immediately raised her chubby hands and shouted in a sweet voice to Mrs. Dong E who was walking in the front yard:
"Three, aunt, aunt~~~"
Irgen Jueluo was sitting on the carved armchair in the hall, looking at the list of items in the warehouse written by his confidant, the palace maid. When he heard his daughter's milky voice, he raised his head and saw Dong E bending down to lie on the threshold.
The fat girl picked her up and walked across the threshold to the hall.
"Sister-in-law, how are you packing your things?"
Dong E knew that tomorrow was a good day to move in, and the Yinti family would move out of the Forbidden City tomorrow morning, so he held his eldest niece, who was fragrant and soft in his arms, and sat down on the carved armchair beside Dafujin, smiling.
He looked at Ergenjueluo and asked softly.
"It's almost done. Our master said that we only need to transport the important items out. All the furniture and other items have been provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After we move out, if there is anything missing, we can send the maids and the little girl.
Let’s go to various shops to buy some.”
Irgen Jueluo stretched out his arm to open an empty tea cup from the high-legged small square table next to his right hand, picked up the purple clay pot and poured a cup of warm scented tea for Dong E, and pushed the tea cup to Dong E's hand.
Said with a smile.
Mr. Dong E smiled and nodded, then reached out to pick up the tea cup and took a sip.
Sitting in Dong E's arms, little Halahazi raised his furry little head and blinked his big eyes to watch the beautiful third aunt drinking tea.
As soon as Mrs. Dong E lowered her head, she saw the little guy sitting on her lap, licking his pink little mouth, his big clear eyes rolling around, looking expectantly at the tea cup in her hand, swallowing his saliva.
.
She couldn't help but feel happy, and casually placed the tea cup on the small square table with high legs in the center of her and Ergenjueluo's circle. She gently tapped little Harahach's eyebrows with her white fingertips and asked with a smile.
:
"Is it possible that Halahach is thirsty and wants to drink water?"
"Ang~"
When the little girl heard Dong E's words, her eyes immediately lit up, she nodded her little head, and replied sweetly with glistening saliva flowing from the corner of her mouth.
"She's not thirsty." When Ilgen Jueluo saw his daughter's drooling look, he couldn't help but laughed and took out a soft handkerchief from his sleeve. He leaned forward slightly and used the handkerchief to cover the fat girl.
After wiping the saliva from his mouth, he explained to his three younger siblings:
"Hua Yan, Halahazi has a lot of teeth now. She loves to eat sweets and drink honey water. A few days ago, I took her to play on the big slide in the Queen's Palace. Queen Mother saw the right side of her mouth.
One of her big teeth is slightly darkened. I am afraid that she will get cavities before she reaches the age of getting new teeth, so I specifically told me to reduce her sweets."
"No, as soon as I came back from Chuxiu Palace, I replaced all her honey water with plain water. She doesn't like to drink plain water. Now when she sees others drinking water, she will look at other people's teacups, wanting to see them drinking.
Isn’t that honey water?”
After listening to Irgenjueluo's explanation, Mrs. Dong E looked down again and saw that the little guy in her arms was still moving her little nose, as if she wanted to smell whether the scented tea she just drank was honey.
I couldn't hold back the smell of water, so I laughed out loud.
After the smile dissipated, another hint of sadness slipped through Dong E's eyes.
Even though this gloom disappeared quickly, Irgen Jueluo was still looking at him.
Irgen Jueluo stretched out his arms to hold the little guy sitting on San Fujin's lap into his arms, then took the milk bottle from the eldest maid on the side, handed the bottle to the fat girl in his arms, and asked her to
After drinking a lot of milk, he looked at Dong E in confusion and asked:
"Third brother and sister, what's wrong with you? Did something unpleasant happen to you?"
Mrs. Dong E bit her red lips with her teeth and glanced at the palace guests present.
Irgen Jueluo hurriedly handed the little guy in his arms to the eldest palace maid beside him, and then waved his hand to screen out the other palace ladies.
Wait until only Dong E and Irgenjueluo are left in the hall.
San Fujin used his left hand to hold on to the gemstone ring he wore on his right hand. His long eyelashes, as thick as two small fans, trembled. He lowered his eyes and sighed in a low voice:
"Sister-in-law, I won't hide it from you. I have been holding these words in my heart for several days. If I don't say them out, I feel really uncomfortable."
Irgenjueluo saw that the circles under Dong E's eyes were still red as she spoke, and her confusion deepened. She couldn't help but add some scented tea to Dong E's teacup, and listened quietly to Dong E's complaints.
"I've been married for almost three months. I felt okay with my mother-in-law in the first few days after we got married, but a month later I couldn't stand it anymore."
"Whenever I went to Zhongcui Palace to pay her respects, she would force me to drink some bitter medicinal soup, saying that it could regulate the body and help with pregnancy. She also told me that she drank this bitter medicine when she was young.
After taking the medicine, my body was adjusted to a state where it is extremely easy to conceive, and one brother was born one after another."
When Irgen Jueluo heard this, his eyes couldn't help but flash.
Before she got pregnant, Concubine Hui often forced her to drink some messy tonic soup.
She understood that the Dong E family couldn't stand Concubine Rong's urging her to give birth.
Mr. Dong E picked up the handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, sniffed his red nose, and continued:
"Originally, our husband and I had a pretty harmonious relationship in bed, and we weren't that anxious to have a baby. But my mother-in-law was extremely anxious. She kept saying that she had given birth to five sons and one daughter, and our husband was her only child. She had a heavy burden on her.
It’s here.”
"If that's the case, that's it, she's still here." Dong E closed his eyes and said a little shyly:
"She also went to the imperial doctor and asked the imperial doctor when a woman was most fertile in a month. She calculated the date for our husband and I to have sex from the mouth of the palace maid in our courtyard, and asked us to have sex according to the day she calculated.
.”
"Tell me, why do you think she is so lenient? Sexual intercourse is so private, how could she have the nerve to interfere? Moreover, I also heard from my maid who was accompanying me that on the day of our wedding, my mother-in-law was still involved.
Listening to the bridal chamber at the door of the room, tell me, why does she have no sense of boundaries in what she does?"
"Now we have to have sex according to the days specified by her, and we have no interest in it at all."
After finishing a long series of words, Mr. Dong E didn't know whether he was ashamed, angry or ashamed, and the tears flowed more violently.
Ergenjue Luo's eyelids also twitched. He didn't expect that Concubine Rong was more urgent than her mother-in-law Concubine Hui about holding her eldest granddaughter.
Counting the days and stipulating that her son and his daughter-in-law would have sex, she felt a little suffocated as a bystander.
Irgenjueluo pursed her red lips, stood up from the armchair, walked to Dong E's side, ran her hand along Dong E Huayan's back, and comforted softly:
"Then what did the third brother think? Didn't he stop his mother-in-law?"
Hearing that Mr. Yiergenjueluo mentioned Yinzhi, Mr. Dong E became even more angry.
"Sister-in-law, it would be great if our father had the courage of your father. On the night of the wedding, he even told me that his mother-in-law was just nagging, but she was not bad-tempered. I just listened to what Concubine Rong said."
"Yinzhi also knew that what his mother-in-law had done was ridiculous and that her management was too lenient. He didn't say a few words to Concubine Rong, so Concubine Rong burst into tears and said that she had been suffering for half her life for nothing.
I'm so troubled, if her Chengrui, Saiyinchahun, Changhua, Changsheng were still alive, how could her life have been so miserable!"
Dong E's eyes were red and he looked up at Irgenjueluo who was standing beside him. He spread his hands and said helplessly:
"As soon as she cries like this, our father will become silent and won't say a word."
Irgen Jueluo was choked by Dong E's words.
She thought about the time when Yinti came out of the Yanxi Palace with bright red fingerprints.
Concubine Hui and her father-in-law, mother and son, both had strong tempers. One dared to quarrel, and the other dared to slap.
Concubine Rong and Third Elder Brother, both mother and son are soft-tempered. When Concubine Rong cried like this, Third Elder Brother really didn't even dare to fart.
Comparing the two, Irgen Jueluo couldn't help but feel that her father's temperament was more to her liking. The couple lived their lives by themselves, not with their mother-in-law. Of course, their family had to be harmonious.
Seeing Mr. Dong E crying so hard that the makeup on his face was slightly stained, Irgen felt Luo's brows slightly wrinkled and said:
"Third brothers and sisters, I think you should tell Khan Amma about opening the mansion."
"As long as you move out, won't you, the mistress, still be able to do whatever you want in your own mansion? Concubine Rong will be far away by then, and she won't have anywhere to stretch her hands."
When Dong E heard what Ilgenjue Luo said, she paused slightly while wiping her tears with her handkerchief, and then said with a wry smile:
"Sister-in-law, do you think I haven't thought about it this way? I told Yinzhi about this in early August and asked him to follow the example of my elder brother and go to the Qing Palace to inform Khan Ama about the opening of the palace."
"Before Yinzhi agreed, Concubine Rong heard about it somehow and called me to Zhongcui Palace to set up rules. When it was all over, she also asked me to bring two beautiful maids back and bring me back. I was so angry that I went back to the courtyard of Cisuo and burst into tears."
"If I had known that marrying Yinzhi would be so frustrating, I might as well have married low."
Thinking of the anger she received that day in Zhongcui Palace, Dong E's mind became hot and he immediately confided the last sentence.
"Nonsense, you don't want to be a good person if your words spread out? How can I find fault with Brother Huang?"
Irgen Jueluo patted Dong E's back lightly, frowned, and said with a serious face.
Mrs. Dong E pursed her red lips, knowing that she was impulsive in saying this.
Her eyes were lowered and red, and she was silent.
Irgenjue Luo knew that Dong E was not feeling well, so she sat back on her armchair, frowned and thought for a while, then looked at Dong E and lowered her voice:
"Hua Yan, I think you should go find the Queen."
Dong E-shi sniffed, shook his head and said:
"Sister-in-law, it's better to say goodbye. If I hadn't thought that you were going to move tomorrow, I wouldn't have come to tell you about this matter. It sounds quite funny. If the emperor knew about it, let alone Rong. Now that I’m a concubine, I think our father-in-law has to worry about me, after all, the family scandal shouldn’t be made public."
"Why shouldn't family scandals be made public? Have you been fooled by reading those romantic poems?"
Ergenjue Luo leaned forward slightly and said:
"I'll tell you directly. If you think about it, my mother-in-law and I are actually ordinary people with no blood relationship. We only have intersections because of the same man. Of course, we have to keep silent about some of the bad things inside. Digestive."
Looking at Dong E's confused eyes, Da Fujin continued:
"I'm not asking you to tell Huang'e Niang about the bad things that Concubine Rong did, but I'm asking you to go to Chuxiu Palace to mention the opening of the palace to Huang'e Niang. After all, by the end of April next year, the fourth brother will be here After turning eighteen, the Guarjia family will have completed their mourning by July, and it is very likely that the fourth brother or the prince's first brother will get married next year."
"The prince's palace is already ready. The prince may have moved into it as soon as he got married, but hasn't the fourth brother's palace been built yet? Your mother-in-law's temperament is so open-minded. She is also our teacher. Go and say hello to her. When she was there, she slightly mentioned the idea of opening a mansion. The Queen Mother thought of her fourth brother and would definitely tell Khan Amma about opening a mansion for both her third and fourth brothers. The fifth brother was only half the age of the fourth brother. Years old, the sixth brother, the seventh brother, and the eighth brother were born soon after. Maybe Khan Ama would just wave his hand and ask the brothers to open a house together. At that time, Concubine Rong could not say anything. Well?"
"Sister-in-law, is this okay?"
Mr. Dong E wiped away the tears on his face with a handkerchief, and looked at Mr. Ilgenjueluo with expectant but hesitant eyes.
After talking a lot in one breath, Ilgen felt that Luo's mouth felt a little dry. He also picked up the purple clay pot and poured himself a cup of scented tea. He held the tea cup with his right hand, tapped the table with the fingertips of his left hand, and faced Dong E's face.
Whispered:
"There are some things I haven't told you. My mother-in-law is not a good-tempered person either. But I understand that we live our lives for ourselves. As long as we fulfill our filial piety to my mother-in-law, there is no need to force anything.
If you mention the matter of opening a mansion to the emperor's mother, you might be able to move out earlier. If you don't mention it, you can only hope that one day Khan Amma will suddenly think of opening a mansion for his sons."
Mr. Dong E patiently listened to Mr. Irgenjueluo's words, and then used his left hand to clasp the gemstone ring on his right hand tangledly, frowning and thinking.
When little Halahazi finished drinking the milk from the bottle, he ran into the hall on his short legs again to look for his mother.
Mrs. Dong E bit her red lips, made up her mind and nodded to Mr. Irgen Jueluo, and then smiled and played with her eldest niece for a while.
When the sun sets, I guess the eldest brother and the third brother will soon return to Nansansuo.
Mr. Dong E said goodbye to his mother and daughter and returned to the Nansan Institute next door.
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A few days later, Waiting for Yinti and his family to move out of the Forbidden City.
Dong E specially chose a rest day at the Princess Academy and went to the Chuxiu Palace to chat with the imperial concubine. She smiled and mentioned the matter of opening a mansion.
After Dong E left from Chuxiu Palace.
Bai Lu saw her master shaking his head and couldn't help but smile:
"Master, what's wrong with you?"
Qingyan stood up from the armchair and said helplessly:
"I have heard the word 'cheating a father' before, but now I have seen from Ma Jia what it means to 'cheating a son'."
When Bai Lu heard the words "cheating her son", she couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The fourth elder brother, Yinzhen, lived in the third courtyard and was Yinzhi's neighbor.
What happened in the courtyard of Yinzhi's residence was more or less heard by the palace servants who served Si Age.
When Qingyan heard from Yinzhen's nanny Li that Concubine Rong actually counted the days and stipulated the sexual intercourse between her son and her daughter-in-law, she immediately spit out a sip of tea. She really didn't expect Concubine Rong to be able to
Do such weird things.
But after all, this is a matter of Zhong Cuigong's lineage, and Qingyan also feels that she is not in a position to intervene. After all, Concubine Rong's affairs are just annoying, not evil. If she intervenes, it will be
Can't carry it clearly.
After all, the students she taught were not stupid and knew how to save the country through curves.
Bai Lu looked at her master's speechless expression and smiled again:
"Master, Concubine Rong, like Concubine Hui, is going crazy begging for the emperor's eldest grandson."
When Qingyan heard this, a sarcastic smile appeared on her lips.
It's not that she looks down on Zhong Cuigong, but it's that there is no possibility for Yinzhi to rise to power, either historically or in this world.
And what's the use of giving birth to the emperor's eldest grandson? Is it possible that if the emperor's elder brother can have his eldest grandson, will he succeed in ascending to the throne in the future?
Historically, although Yinfeng did not have an eldest son, his eldest son Hongxi was the eldest grandson of Kangxi.
Qingyan remembered what her partner said that the person Qian Xiaosi admired the most was Kangxi. As soon as he came to power, he overturned almost all the policies set by his father Yongzheng during his lifetime. He imitated his political philosophy in every aspect and flaunted his reputation. He was Tamarfa's favorite grandson. Later, he learned his Khanma's method and went to the south of the Yangtze River six times. He spent extravagantly and spent all his money like water. The reason for abdicating was that he did not dare to surpass his Khanma. Fa has been in power for a long time, but even as the Supreme Emperor, Qian Xiaosi still holds on to the real power and is unwilling to let it go.
It was when Qian Xiao was forty-one that he first met Khan Mafa. Kangxi's favorite grandson during his lifetime was not him, but the prince's eldest son, Hongxi. He took Hongxi with him and taught him hand-in-hand.
But fate has its way. After Yuqing Palace fell from power, Hong Xi was imprisoned along with his Amma when he was at his most energetic. Later, after Qian Xiaosi came to power, Hong Xi was charged with treason and his name was changed. "Forty-six".
Qingyan couldn't help but sigh when she thought of this.
She stood up from the armchair, walked to the front yard and looked up at the red fruits on the fruit trees. She couldn't help but pursed her red lips and thought, she didn't know if her prince nephew would be able to have an eldest son in this life.
After all, the eldest son can still accumulate a lot of political capital for Yinreng.
The Guarja family is quite powerful. If the Guarja family does not have a legitimate son, then the bastard will inherit everything, which will be quite troublesome for the Guarja family.
The late autumn afternoon sun cast many light spots through the gaps in the fruit trees, and the light spots were as mottled as fish scales hitting Qingyan's face.
The imperial concubine closed her eyes, touched the rough trunk of the fruit tree with her white fingertips, and meditated silently.
…
After the Double Ninth Festival, Kangxi felt that the emperor's concubine's words were reasonable. The princes' mansions were built as soon as possible, and they moved out of the palace as early as possible. The courtyard where they lived was also spacious.
Therefore, in late September, Kangxi, with a stroke of his imperial pen, appropriated a large sum of money from the warehouse and began to have people from the Ministry of Works build the residences of the third elder brother and the fourth elder brother.
When Concubine Rong heard the news in Zhongcui Palace, she was so angry that she couldn't even eat. She felt that the emperor was really looking down on him more and more. He didn't even inform about such a big thing as Yinzhi's opening of the palace. I don't know what she is like.
Grandma Ma Jia, who was standing aside, looked at Concubine Rong with worry. She sighed inwardly, thinking that she had better pray that San Fujin would get pregnant as soon as possible, otherwise the master would really go crazy.
But Grandma Ma Jia's prayers were of no use.
In the blink of an eye, the door leaves were falling and snow was falling, and there was still no movement in the stomach of Dong E, who had been married for half a year.
Turning to the next year, half of the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi's reign has passed.
Dong E's stomach, which had been married for a year, was still silent. Concubine Rong knew what was going on in her son's yard. She knew that Yinzhi had also slept in other people's houses.
But God seemed to be against her, and nothing came of her request.
The women in Yinzhi's backyard were blushing every month.
Dong E watched with cold eyes as Concubine Rong called for the imperial physician. She went to the courtyard of the Nansan Institute and asked the imperial physician to diagnose the women's pulses one by one.
Seeing that the two beautiful maids that Concubine Rong specially asked her to bring back from Zhongcui Palace were not pregnant, Dong E rolled her eyes with mockery in her eyes by lowering her head to drink water.
It was midsummer in June, and when Concubine Rong heard that the third princess Duan Jing who had married to Monan Mongolia was almost three months pregnant, she was so anxious that she got angry and had several big blisters at the corner of her mouth. She really couldn't understand what was happening in front of her. Several married princesses and the great fortune Jin Yiergenjueluo soon became pregnant. Why was there no movement from the women in her son's yard?
Could it be that her son is not good enough?
This absurd and terrifying idea suddenly popped into Concubine Rong's mind, and she shook her head to dismiss it.
But it's useless no matter how anxious Ma Jiashi is.
In July, the Guarjia family, who had been observing mourning for Heshuo's consort Huashan for three years, finally ended the period of mourning.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is already eleven years old and has become a diamond-level single man in this feudal era.
As early as three years ago, officials from the Ministry of Rites had prepared all the equipment for the prince's wedding.
Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, Kangxi couldn't wait to hold a grand wedding for his precious son.
The wedding of the first crown prince of the Qing Dynasty was unprecedentedly grand.
Later history books record: "On August 18, the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi, the prince's wedding was second only to the wedding of Emperor Kangxi and Queen Renxiao. "
In mid-August, Yinreng got married.
In mid-September, Prince Yu and the Fujin Siruk family, who had longed to retire early, also arranged the wedding of Chang Quan and the niece of the Empress Yuan, the Hesheli family.
In the second half of the year, Qingyan was very busy.
First there was the wedding of the prince's nephew, followed closely by the wedding of his godson Chang Quan and his maternal cousin's niece.
Yinzhen is also nineteen years old.
In mid-October, when the first snow fell, Yinzhen also got married to Uranala.
I was busy with three junior weddings in a row.
Qingyan felt that she could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
At the beginning of November, after finally having some leisure time, she was warming a pot of sherbet and sitting under the eaves of the main hall, drinking sherbet and admiring the snow.
He Zhuer happily ran from Yuqing Palace to Chuxiu Palace. As soon as he entered the front yard, he saw the imperial concubine sitting leisurely under the eaves of the verandah admiring the snow. She was busy holding the goose feathers on her head and walked quickly.
He ran forward, leaned over happily and said:
"This servant pays my respects to the Imperial Concubine."
"What good thing happened? How did you become like this?"
Qingyan put the sherbet in her hand on the low table aside, looking at the joyful look on He Zhuer's face, she couldn't help but asked with a curious smile.
Bai Lu, who was standing next to the imperial concubine, couldn't help but cast her confused eyes on Manager Xiao He.
He Zhuer cupped his hands towards the imperial concubine again and grinned:
"Congratulations to your Majesty, congratulations to your Majesty, today when the imperial physician came to the East Palace to ask for a safe pulse for His Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, he happened to diagnose the Crown Princess's slippery pulse!"
"Hua Mai", Qingyan just read these two words.
Bai Lu, who came to her senses first, lowered her head to the imperial concubine sitting in the rocking chair with a look of surprise on her face, and said happily:
"Master, the Crown Princess is pregnant!"
As soon as Bai Lu finished speaking, Qingyan's eyes widened in surprise and she sat upright in the rocking chair reflexively.
He Zhuer also smiled and nodded:
"Yes, empress, Your Highness the Crown Prince is going to be an Amma!"
The corners of Qingyan's lips raised unconsciously. She was about to get up from her armchair and go to Yuqing Palace to see Guarjia.
Kangxi and Liang Jiugong quickly walked through the heavy snow and walked into the Chuxiu Palace. When they saw the imperial concubine, they immediately shouted excitedly:
"Yan'er, let me tell you, I hope for the stars and the moon, and I finally hope that Baocheng will have a child!"
Qingyan heard the sound and saw Kangxi couldn't even close his mouth through the falling snowflakes. Snowflakes floated into his mouth, and Kangxi's grin looked a bit like that fool squatting at the entrance of the village.
She couldn't hold back the "puch" sound and laughed.
…
As dusk fell, everyone in the palace knew that Crown Princess Guarjia was pregnant!