After the empress dowager who lived in Ningshou New Palace heard the good news, she was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth. She immediately sent two nuns with experience in taking care of pregnant women to Yuqing Palace to let the two nuns take good care of themselves.
Preserve the pregnancy of the Crown Princess.
Aunt Gui and Aunt Suma were also overjoyed. Regardless of the heavy snow falling outside, they held oil-paper umbrellas and walked along the snow-covered bluestone palace road to Cining Palace in the west.
Here, I put a stick of incense on the magic tablet of Queen Xiaozhuang Wen, and told my master in person that her beloved grandson finally had a child.
In the warm Yuqing Palace, Crown Princess Guarjia sat on a carved armchair with a pretty face and a blush. The imperial concubine personally told her about the experience of pregnant women. When she heard that in the first three months, "sexual intercourse is strictly prohibited" for four
After saying this, Guarjia's face turned even redder.
Sifujin Ulanala, who had just married into the royal family not long ago, was wearing a pink winter coat inlaid with white fox fur, which looked as pretty as a plum blossom that had just bloomed on a branch.
She sat next to the imperial concubine, eating preserved fruits one by one. The cheeks on both sides of her round face were bulging with the preserved fruits. She listened to the conversation between E Niang and the second sister-in-law, and looked at the expression on the second sister-in-law's face.
Seeing that Guarjia's fair earlobes turned red, she immediately laughed out loud and said to the imperial concubine beside her:
"Mother, look at my second sister-in-law, she's so shy."
When Guarjia heard this, she pretended to be angry and glared at Ulanara, and laughed and cursed:
"I want to see if the fourth brother and sister are pregnant one day. Will the fourth brother and sister blush when they listen to their aunt's instructions during pregnancy?"
When Uranala heard the Crown Princess's joke, she remembered the handsome face of her fourth master, and her pink and white round face suddenly turned red.
Qingyan saw the two juniors getting shyer than the other in front of her, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Yinzhen has a good relationship with Yinzhen, and the Crown Princess Guarjia naturally has a good relationship with the Ulanara family of Sifujin.
Although one of the two sisters-in-law seems to have "won" and the other has "lost" in history, in Qingyan's heart, both of them are just pitiable people.
I also love them the most on weekdays.
She turned her head and glanced at the gilded self-ringing clock in the corner, and found that it was almost the end of the hour, and the sky outside the window had already become so dark that no figure could be distinguished, so she pointed at the warm jade she brought with her that was carved into the shape of a tiger.
Guarjia warned:
"Li An, if you are fine, just hold this warm jade in your arms and rub it. The warm jade nourishes your body and is good for you and the fetus in your belly."
"Aunt, I remember."
Guarjia pursed her lips and smiled.
Seeing her aunt preparing to leave with her four younger siblings, she carefully protected her still-unpregnant belly and stood at the door of the hall to bid farewell to the imperial concubine and Sifujin.
The snowflakes outside were falling quickly and densely.
After the imperial concubine returned to Chuxiu Palace, she was ready to wash up and rest.
At the same moment, there was no joy or laughter in the Zhongcui Palace, which was symmetrical to the Chuxiu Palace across the central axis of the Forbidden City.
At three quarters of Xu, the inner room of the main hall of Zhongcui Palace was brightly lit, and the silver wire charcoal placed in the warm basin was burning red.
The room was very warm like a spring day, and the hot air hit the cold glass windows, coating the inside of the windows with a hazy layer of white mist.
Concubine Rong was wearing a dark red silk pajamas. She was staying in this warm inner room, but her hands and feet felt cold, and she couldn't feel any warmth at all.
Ever since she heard the news from the palace that the Crown Princess of the East Palace was pregnant half an hour ago, Ma Jiashi frowned tightly, with no trace of joy on her face, and clasped her hands on the carpet in the inner room.
Walk around.
Grandma Ma Jia, who was standing aside, felt quite uncomfortable when she saw her master's anxious and aggrieved look.
The master put in so much effort in order for the women in Third Brother's backyard to give birth to the emperor's eldest grandson as soon as possible. He spent countless taels of silver just on the good medicinal herbs for regulating the body.
Not to mention her master's piety in praying to Guanyin to pray for the emperor's eldest grandson. He knelt on the futon three times a day and kowtowed to pray to Guanyin.
But God was unfavorable, and all the efforts the master put into were in vain. None of the women of the third elder brother were happy, but the princess quietly carried the child in her belly.
Look at what's going on here, you really have the intention to plant flowers but not the flowers, but not the willows to create shade!
Aunt Ma Jia stood aside with her eyebrows lowered and she kept sighing in her heart that things in the world are impermanent and that God's calculations are not as good as those of others.
Concubine Rong bit her lower lip with her teeth and clenched the two fists at her sides. After struggling in her heart for a while, she finally seemed to make up her mind and walked to Ma Jia's side in a few steps.
, half covering her mouth with her right hand, and whispered a few instructions in her wet nurse's ear.
After listening to what Concubine Rong said, Ma Jia's eyes widened instantly and her face turned pale. She knelt down on the carpet and pulled the hem of Concubine Rong's pajamas with her hands.
The hand was so strong that it wrinkled the pajamas. He looked up at Ma Jiashi's face in shock and fear and whispered:
"Mom, we can't do that!"
"The prince is really not too young now. When Long Live the Lord was as old as the prince, the eldest brother had already stood up and His Highness the prince was born. Think about how precious this baby is in the princess's belly. I'm afraid it will
All the civil and military officials of the court, the Empress Dowager and the imperial concubine in the harem are all watching. If they find out that I have taken action, will the emperor not tear up our Zhongcui Palace?"
After Grandma Ma Jia said this with trembling lips, tears rushed out of her eyes.
Since the "Dinghai Divine Needle" in the palace is gone, and the Queen Mother doesn't care about things, the master's life has been too depressing when the Queen Mother was alive. Now that the "mountain" weighing on his head has been removed, he is getting crazier day by day.
of!
Interfering in the third elder brother's sexual intercourse just sounds a bit embarrassing, but this is all their own business, and no one else can say anything.
But if you dare to interfere with the issue of the heirs of the East Palace, then you will really be an old man who has hanged yourself and is living impatiently!
In the palace, it would be a serious crime for a concubine to attack the prince or the princesses, let alone the emperor's grandson or granddaughters. If Long Live the Lord found out, they would really die!
Little did Ma Jiashi know that her wet nurse had been frightened by her increasingly bold behavior.
She found that after Grandma Ma Jia knelt on the ground, her legs seemed to be tied with two solid iron balls. No matter how she pulled up, she could not lift her wet nurse up, so she had no choice but to
Then he knelt down, looked into the eyes of Grandma Ma Jia with burning eyes, and whispered anxiously:
"Mommy, I didn't say anything about giving the Crown Princess any powerful medicine."
Seeing Grandma Ma Jia crying with fear, Ma Jia's heart was beating in panic, but thinking of those ambitions, she still suppressed the fear in her heart, licked her lips, and spoke.
He lowered his voice and said:
"I just want you to send someone to look for it and see if there is any medicine that can turn the baby in your belly into a female doll. If you find it."
Ma Jiashi blinked at her wet nurse and raised her head to drink water.
Even though Concubine Rong hadn't finished her words, Ma Jia still understood what Concubine Rong wanted to express.
Is the key to this problem lies in what kind of medicine is given?
She looked at her master who had grown up with breasts without words. She used to think that his master was a man with a stupid mind but a kind heart.
Now that time has passed, she, a loyal servant who has always been by her master's side, doesn't know when her master became obsessed with power, and she can come up with all kinds of stupid and poisonous ideas!
At this moment, Grandma Ma Jia suddenly felt very tired. She changed from kneeling to "kneeling down", put her buttocks on her heels, and weakly gave Concubine Rong a break and said:
"Mother, you said that the wheat seeds have been planted in the ground, and the buds are about to emerge from the ground. Is there any magic medicine in the world that can turn wheat into something once it is sprinkled on the ground?
Isn’t the rice ready?”
When Concubine Rong heard the metaphorical words spoken by her wet nurse, her brows furrowed even more tightly and her red lips pursed into a tight line.
"Let's take a step back. Even if there is such a secret medicine in the world, you said that after the good wheat seeds are mixed with the medicine, when the buds emerge from the soil, there will be wheat grains on the green stalks.
If there is rice, then is it wheat or rice?" If it's a baby, is it a boy or a girl?
When Concubine Rong heard what Ma Jia said, her eyes couldn't help but flash, and an absurd idea ran through her mind uncontrollably. What if the first child of Prince Yinreng was born a non-male?
He is a freak who is not a woman, so can he still hold his position as the crown prince?
The sixth elder brother's hand was disabled and the seventh elder brother's leg was so frightened that the emperor went to the fasting palace to fast and pray for a whole month.
If the prince of the Qing Dynasty gave birth to a monster, what would the emperor do, who was eager to have a grandson?
Old Ma Jia never expected that her sincere words not only failed to dispel the absurd thoughts in her master's mind, but actually made Ma Jia's heart even hotter, and the absurd thoughts seemed to have been soaked by rain.
Like weeds, growing wildly.
Concubine Rong looked at Aunt Ma Jia, with the increasingly sparse gray-white hair on her head, and the panic-stricken look with tears streaming down her face. She felt a little clogged in her heart, feeling that her wet nurse was getting old, and her courage was getting weaker and weaker.
Her son Yinzhi was the new emperor in the future. Before his death, Wu Ya said that the emperor had a long life, and he was still alive in the 61st year of Kangxi!
No matter how good the prince is, he can't bear to be the crown prince for decades under the old man's nose!
The prince will definitely be deposed in the future, and the dragon chair is destined to belong to her son!
When Yinzhi comes to power, the four poor sons who died in infancy will be posthumously granted the title, leaving their names for future generations!
Concubine Rong cheered herself up in her heart, and used all her strength to pull her wet nurse up from the carpet. Then she patted the wrinkled back of Ma Jia's hand with her right hand wearing a gem ring, and smiled softly.
Soothingly said:
"Mommy is right. I have a whim tonight. Since you are old, you should go back to the penthouse to rest earlier. I will also go to bed early."
"My Lady, don't think about that unreliable method anymore. Four little girls were born in succession. There is a chance that the Crown Princess's baby will also be a little girl. Don't get dirty because of this.
Your hands."
Seeing Concubine Rong change her mind, Old Ma Jia felt a little relieved. She raised her sleeves and wiped the tears from her face. When she was about to turn around and leave, she held Concubine Rong's hand uneasily and warned her.
"Mommy, I know this. You should go to the penthouse and rest as soon as possible."
Concubine Rong said and smiled as she sent her wet nurse out of the inner room.
After seeing Grandma Ma Jia with tears in her eyes, she turned around and left the main hall completely.
Concubine Rong bit her lower lip, called over a little eunuch who usually had a very low presence, and whispered a few times in the little eunuch's ear.
The little eunuch nodded while listening, and waited for Concubine Rong to finish explaining everything in a restless mood.
The little eunuch was like an inconspicuous little mouse, his figure flickered and quickly disappeared into the dark snowy night.
…
Concubine Rong, who was thinking about the emperor's eldest grandson, couldn't sleep after hearing the news tonight.
Concubine Hui, who was also dreaming of the emperor's grandson, couldn't sit still.
At the end of Xu Shi, the night was already very deep.
The atmosphere in Yanxi Palace, which is located on a vertical line with Zhongcui Palace, is also very tense, and the tense atmosphere is also vaguely mixed with anger.
Concubine Hui sat on an armchair in the inner room, squinting her eyes and looking at the things placed on the round table in front of her.
The eldest palace maid Xilian, who was kneeling beside Nala's legs, watched Concubine Hui gently caressing an object with her hands, and her heart immediately lifted.
If there is a happy event in Yuqing Palace, naturally all the palaces will send gifts to celebrate.
On the round table in front of Concubine Hui were jade Ruyi, sandalwood bracelets, ruby heads, jade statues of Guanyin and other precious objects.
Jade Ruyi was given to Concubine Hui by the Empress Dowager when she was pregnant with her first child, Brother Chengqing.
The sandalwood bracelet was worshiped in front of the incense in Longquan Temple for ninety-nine and eighty-one days.
The ruby tiara was later given to Concubine Hui by the Empress Dowager when she was pregnant with her second son, the eldest brother.
Even the Guanyin jade statue is carved from a single piece of rare pink jade.
…
The things placed on the round table are all high-quality items in boxes that were unearthed from the warehouse of Yanxi Palace. It can be said that every item taken out and sent to Yuqing Palace is very dignified.
pity.
Standing behind Concubine Hui's chair, Xilian bit her lower lip with her teeth, lowered her head in fear, and said silently in her heart: Unfortunately, these things have either been soaked in musk water or in red flower soup.
Musk is a weapon that can cause pregnant women to miscarry, and safflower soup can sterilize women...
The cold wind outside whipped the glass windows loudly.
The flame of the candle placed in the glass lampshade in the inner room was swaying up and down, illuminating Concubine Hui's face half brightly and half darkly.
Concubine Hui tapped the table with the fingertips of her right hand, closed her eyes, and sighed in her heart:
She knew that the combination of many kinds of food could cause pregnant women to abort their fetuses unknowingly.
As long as the backhand is handled cleanly and the food is eaten in the stomach, who can tell where the mistake is?
However, no matter how secretly the ornaments are sent to the East Palace after being tampered with, there will always be a day when things will happen.
However, the imperial concubine is in charge of all the eating utensils in the East Palace, and the people under her hands cannot get in.
Narashi let out a very low sigh from his mouth, and asked in a low voice to his confidant, the maid of honor, who was standing behind him:
"Xilian, what do you think I should give to Hesheli's good son?"
When Xi Lian heard this, it was as if she had been roared by a big tiger that could eat people. She was so frightened that her whole body trembled. She knelt down on the ground and stumbled back.
road:
"Master, Master, slave, slave, I think it's best not to give away any of these things. Do you think that the princess's belly may not be the emperor's eldest grandson? I heard that the child that the third princess Duan Jing gave birth to not long ago is also a little princess.
Nowadays, the third generation of the royal family has a lot of babies, and the princess must also have babies in her belly. Let’s, let’s not take the risk of doing such a scary thing.”
After hearing this, Concubine Hui raised her eyelids and looked at the eldest palace maid who was kneeling on the ground in a daze. She put her right elbow on the round table and rubbed her forehead with her fingertips. She felt very headache.
…
In the main hall of Qianqing Palace, Kangxi just took his precious son and talked a lot.
When he saw Wei Zhu walking in with very light steps, Kangxi patted Yinreng on the back with his big hand and laughed loudly:
"Baocheng, your wife is pregnant now. You should divert your attention away from the steam engine and pay more attention to your wife's body. Don't make my eldest grandson angry."
When Yinreng heard that Khan Ama did not leave the "eldest grandson" in two of the three sentences tonight, he said helplessly:
"Khan Ama, there is no certainty about whether it will be a boy or a girl. Guarjia's belly is not even pregnant yet, just in case."
"Bah! There's no chance!"
Kangxi now has an eldest granddaughter and three granddaughters. His family really has a throne to inherit, and he cannot have another granddaughter!
Before Yin Reng could finish his words, he was slapped hard on the back by his Khan Ama!
The expression on Yinreng's face was distorted with pain. Sure enough, the fourteenth brother was right. If he, Ama, was not in menopause, who would be in menopause!
Kangxi looked at the expression on Yinreng's face, patted Yinreng on the back several times, and laughed and cursed:
"I feel very accurate this time. If I say he is the eldest grandson, he is the eldest grandson. I have already thought of his name!"
"It's getting late, I want to go to bed, you should get out of here quickly!"
Yinreng couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. There is no shadow of his eldest grandson now. His status in the heart of his Khan Ama is not as high as that of his "eldest grandson". He is afraid that when his "son" is really born, he will
He no longer had any status in Khan Amma's heart.
Yinreng stood up from the armchair, leaned towards Kangxi and left.
Yinreng left with his front foot, and the smile on Kangxi's back foot disappeared.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing behind Kangxi, drove all the palace people out of the hall, and then stood outside the door to guard the door for Long Live Lord.
When only Kangxi, who was sitting on an armchair, and Wei Zhu, who was standing on the ground, were left in the hall, Kangxi turned the jade ring on his hand and said softly to Wei Zhu:
"Tell me, there is a happy event in the East Palace. What is the reaction of each palace?"
Wei Zhu nodded, and then began to speak out one by one:
"Returning to the master, Concubine An, Concubine Yi and Concubine Xuan are all on good terms with Chuxiu Palace. There is nothing unusual about Changchun Palace, Yikun Palace and Xianfu Palace."
Kangxi reached out and picked up the teacup on the small square table with high legs and took a sip of hot tea.
Wei Zhu raised his eyelids and glanced at Kangxi's face secretly, then continued:
"Concubine Jing, concubine Duan, concubine Xi, were very surprised when they heard the news. They just lamented that the princess's belly was so strong that she was pregnant not long after they got married. If the baby is pregnant with a little brother, then the princess' waist will be so strong in the future.
It’s hard.”
"Go on, Concubine Rong, what about Concubine Hui?"
Kangxi put the tea cup on the table with a bang, and asked with no hint of anger in his tone.
Wei Zhu remembered what the secret guard relayed to him, couldn't help but swallowed his saliva, buried his head down, and whispered:
"Master, the secret guard told the servant that Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui were eager to have a grandchild. They were very disappointed when they heard that the Crown Princess was pregnant."
"Disappointed? Not necessarily! You should be angry, right?"
Kangxi twitched the corner of his mouth and revealed a sarcastic smile:
"Neither Huang Ma nor Huang E Niang favored boys over girls, but Nala saw that Halahazi was a girl, so she turned around and left, almost carving the words 'Emperor's eldest grandson' on her forehead!
"
"Ma Jiashi is even better! She directly intervened in her son's sexual intercourse and even stipulated when to have intercourse. Her method really opened my eyes!"
"Tell me directly that these two people are so arrogant. When they heard that Baocheng's wife was pregnant with a child, what on earth were they doing secretly and shamelessly?"
The more Kangxi talked, the angrier he became, and he hit the armrest of the armchair with a "slap".
Wei Zhu's heart trembled, and he quickly poured beans into the bamboo tube and said:
"Master, the secret guard inquired. Concubine Rong ordered her subordinates to find a medicine that can turn the children in pregnant women's stomachs, regardless of gender, into female dolls..."
"Concubine Hui soaked many precious objects in the warehouse in musk water and safflower soup..."
"Bang!"
"Crack!"
"Bang!"
Liang Jiugong, who was standing outside the hall, heard a loud noise coming from inside. He couldn't help but look up at the dim palace lantern hanging above his head. He also used the palace lantern to look at the heavy snow swirling down. Silently in his heart.
Counting "one, two, three".
As soon as "three" was counted, I heard Long Live Master yelling angrily: "Liang Jiugong!"
Manager Liang hurriedly raised his hands and rubbed his face, then turned around and pushed open the two mahogany doors with a "squeak" sound.
He glanced at the messy floor filled with broken porcelain pieces and tea. He lowered his head, crossed the threshold, and hurried into the warm hall. He didn't even finish the bowing ceremony when he saw the emperor's bright yellow dragon boots.
Walking back and forth in front of him, he heard the emperor's suppressed anger and said through gritted teeth:
"Liang Jiugong, you now go to Yanxi Palace and Zhongcui Palace to convey my will. Soon it will be the eighth death anniversary of Empress Xiaozhuang Wen. Concubine Hui Na La and Concubine Rong Ma Jia are both Empress Xiaozhuang Wen.
The palace concubines who were satisfied during their lifetime, at the beginning of the Mao period tomorrow, the Nala family and the Ma Jia family will go to the Zhaoxi Mausoleum to guard the mausoleum of Queen Xiaozhuang Wen to fulfill their filial piety!"
"Yes! I'll go right away, slave!"
Liang Jiugong finished listening to Kangxi's words, then quickly turned around and walked out.
Wei Zhu raised his eyelids and caught a glimpse of Liang Jiugong crossing the mahogany threshold and walking out. As the cotton door curtain swayed, a few snowflakes fell into the warm basin at the door in the cold wind.
The snowflakes fell on the burning red silver charcoal, and a slight explosion immediately erupted.
Late at night, loud crying sounds came from Yanxi Palace and Zhongcui Palace. The quiet snowy night was completely disrupted by the panic and frightened crying! The layout of the harem changed again...