The next day, at the beginning of the morning, the sky outside the window was still dark, the heavy snowfall turned into scattered light snow, and the sound of the howling cold wind was still loud.
Last night, before little Harahach fell asleep, his little body was slightly feverish. The doctor examined little Gege, and after boiling the medicine, Yinti and Ergen Jueluo coaxed their crying daughter to finish the medicine and finally gave her the medicine.
The crying little one was put to sleep.
The young couple, whose eyes were almost too sleepy to keep open, fell asleep at the end of the day.
Unexpectedly, the young couple had not slept for an hour when the urgent voice of Xiao Shuanzi, the elder brother's personal eunuch, came from outside the inner room.
"Master, Fujin, something happened in Yanxi Palace. You two should wake up quickly!"
Little Shuanzi was lying on the cotton curtain of the inner room, with beads of sweat on his forehead. He was as anxious as fire, but for fear of waking up the sick little princess, he could only lower his voice and shout softly into the inner room.
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Ilgenjuroshi, who was sleeping on the inside of the bed, was the first to be woken up when he heard the sound of the small bolt outside the door.
She couldn't help but frown, opened her eyes, saw the dark bed curtain, turned her body sideways, hugged her daughter sleeping in the middle, and pushed Yin sleeping on the outside with her right hand.
Ti whispered:
"Master, wake up quickly, Xiao Shuanzi is calling you outside."
Yinti, who had spent a whole day in the government office during the day and took care of her daughter for most of the night, was so tired that she didn't even want to say anything.
After he was woken up by his own Fujin, he blinked his eyes in confusion, and heard the little Shuanzi outside still pinching his throat and shouting in a low voice, "Master, something happened in Yanxi Palace", the sleepy man in his head
He was immediately dismissed and sat up from the bed hurriedly.
The three members of the family were all wearing pajamas. Irgen Jueluo simply pulled his clothes and sat up from the bed.
Yinti rubbed his face with both hands. After regaining his consciousness, he opened the orange bed curtain with his hands and shouted hoarsely in the direction of the inner door:
"Shuanzi, come in and talk."
Xiao Shuanzi heard his master's voice, hurriedly opened the cotton curtain, walked around the emerald screen at the door, stood three meters away from the canopy bed, lowered his head and said quickly:
"Master, Fujin, I have just received the news that something happened in the Yanxi Palace and Zhongcui Palace last night. Long Live Master got very angry in the Qianqing Palace and wanted to move Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong to the Zhaoxi Mausoleum for
Empress Xiaozhuangwen is guarding the mausoleum, and the two empresses will leave the palace this morning."
"What?"
When the couple sitting on the bed heard this, their eyes widened instantly. The words shouted in unison woke up the little Halahach sleeping in the middle.
"Woo, wow -"
The two-year-old Halahach was already feeling unwell. After being woken up by the voices of Amma and Niang, he immediately frowned, closed his eyes, and started to cry.
"Don't cry, don't cry."
Irgen felt that Luo Shi knew that his daughter was feeling uncomfortable, so he quickly put his daughter into his arms, patted the little one's back with his right hand and comforted her softly.
Yinti couldn't care about his daughter anymore. He stretched out his long legs from the bed and hurriedly put on the indoor slippers on the footrest. He frowned and looked at his personal eunuch and asked:
"Do you know what happened in the palace?"
Irgen Jueluo also pursed his red lips and looked at Xiao Shuanzi standing on the ground.
Xiao Shuanzi shook his head, raised his eyelids slightly, glanced at the anxious expression on the elder brother's face, and guessed in a low voice:
"Master, I haven't inquired about the specific matter yet. Long Live Master's anger seems to be related to the East Palace."
"Why does this involve Yuqing Palace?"
Yinti didn't bother to take off his pajamas, he grabbed the winter clothes on the huanghuali wood hanger and put them on his pajamas.
Hearing that his personal eunuch actually mentioned "Eastern Palace", his brows furrowed even more tightly, and he turned to look at the little bolt in confusion, and at the same time, he stopped tying the buckle on his hand.
Sitting on the bed, Ilgenjueluo's heart sank when he heard the word "East Palace". As long as the East Palace was involved in the palace, there would be no trivial matters.
Her mother-in-law, Concubine Hui, and her third younger sister's mother-in-law, Concubine Rong, were both high-ranking empresses with the emperor's brother at their knees. What on earth did these two people do that was so outrageous that they made Khan Amma so angry that she had no mercy at all?
Not to mention, we have to drive them out of the palace on a cold and snowy day and move them to the imperial mausoleum to guard the mausoleum of Empress Xiaozhuangwen?
"Sir, I heard that the Crown Princess seems to be happy."
Xiao Shuanzi licked his dry lips and added in a low voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, Irgen Jueluo's eyelids twitched heavily, and Yinti's big hand tying the plate clasp paused.
A thought passed through the couple's minds at the same time: Could it be that the mother-in-law had attacked the pregnant princess?
"Fu Jin, you and your daughter are waiting in the mansion. I will go into the palace to take a look."
Yinti thought of the past when his mother-in-law always encouraged him to seize his legitimate son, and how disappointed his mother-in-law was after Halahazi was born. He had an ominous premonition in his heart. He was 80% sure that his mother-in-law was carrying him behind his back.
He had attacked Yuqing Palace, otherwise Khan Ama would not have treated his mother like this!
He hurriedly said a word to Ergen Jueluo in panic, and quickly ran out.
Irgenjue Luo Shi and Yin Ti also guessed that the prince's wedding was late, and the long-lived master's expectations for the prince's child had almost turned into reality. If her mother-in-law was really arrogant and dared to attack the pregnant princess,
Then what will happen to their mansion after the prince ascends the throne?
Da Fujin suddenly felt as cold as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. When he saw that Yin Ti was not even wearing a big sweater, he ran out in a panic and hurriedly opened his mouth and shouted to Xiao Shuanzi who was about to turn around:
"Xiao Shuanzi, bring me a big cloak!"
When Xiao Shuanzi heard Da Fujin's instructions, he quickly moved his body and took off the silver-gray mink cloak hanging on the clothes rack. He casually put it on his arm and quickly followed their father outside.
The orange-red cotton door curtain hanging on the inner room swayed back and forth twice.
The only two people left in the dim inner room were the mother and daughter sitting on the bed.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuah, uh, cold, it hurts!"
Irgen Jueluo, who was in a panic, heard the cry of the girl in his arms, quickly lowered his head and looked at her and asked:
"Halahazi, where does it hurt?"
"Ooooooooooo, my head hurts!"
Little Halahach rubbed himself uncomfortably in Dafujin's arms, and cried with his eyes closed.
When Ilgen Jueluo heard this, he became even more panicked. He hurriedly touched his daughter's forehead with his right hand, and his palm instantly felt hot.
My daughter has a high fever again?
"Come, come quickly, call the doctor to come in!"
Irgenjueluo hurriedly opened the bed curtain with his bare hands and shouted towards the door of the inner room.
The maids who were staying outside to watch the night were originally worried because of Xiao Shuanzi's words. When they saw that the eldest brother had just left, Da Fujin's frightened voice came from the inner room, and they hurriedly beat him.
With a start, he quickly opened the cotton curtain and walked in.
When the maids relit the candles on the candlesticks in the inner room, the room instantly became bright.
At this time, Ilgenjueluo also saw her daughter's round, red face and the small pimple on her neck.
Her tears rushed out of her eyes, and she opened her mouth in fright, and she started crying:
"Go and call the doctor in!"
The maid who was standing by the bed and tying up the bed curtains also saw the little pimple growing on little princess's neck, and her heart skipped a beat. Hadn't their little princess already been vaccinated with cowpox, so why did she still have small pimples growing on her neck?
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"Call the doctor!"
"Call the doctor! Little Princess has high fever again!"
The screams of maids and eunuchs rang out one after another in the quiet snowy night, and the eldest brother's house was completely in chaos.
The scattered light snow falling outside gradually began to get heavier again.
"Drive! Drive! Drive!"
The streets covered with thick snow were extremely empty. The wheels of a blue-black carriage rolled over the snow. It was traveling so fast that it almost flew up.
About a quarter of an hour later, the carriage came to a sudden stop at Xihua Gate.
"Uu——"
The coachman who was sitting on the carriage driving the carriage had not yet completely stopped the carriage when Yinti couldn't wait to jump out of the carriage.
The young guard standing guard outside the Xihua Gate used the dim palace lantern above his head to see that the person who came was the eldest brother, and quickly stepped aside to let him pass.
As soon as Yinti walked into Xihua Gate, he spread out his legs and ran quickly along the slippery bluestone palace road to the Qianqing Palace in the east.
Xiao Shuanzi, who was following behind, also held the big cloak in his arms and ran quickly behind.
When the master and servant ran out with sweat on their foreheads, they hurriedly ran into the Qianqing Gate. As soon as they entered the front yard, they vaguely saw the third elder brother Yinzhi kneeling on the open space in front of the main hall, making a sound
cried and shouted:
"Yinzhi asks to see Khan's Ama! Please Khan's Ama to see my son!"
After seeing the back of his third brother, Yinzhi subconsciously clenched the two fists hanging by his sides, walked forward quickly, knelt side by side with Yinzhi, and also shouted loudly in the direction of the main hall.
road:
"Yinti asks to see Khan's Ama! Please Khan's Ama to see my son!"
Liang Jiugong, who was staying in the main hall with his eyes closed to relax, heard the voice of his eldest brother coming from outside. He immediately opened his eyes and glanced at the gilt self-ringing clock in the corner. He saw that the silver pointer on the dial was almost pointing to "six."
It’s ”, and it will be daylight in more than half an hour.
Last night, Kangxi was so angry that he almost smashed the entire hall. Now the ground was still in a mess. Liang Jiugong took his eyes back from the chiming clock and looked at Long Live Lord who was sitting on the armchair with his eyes closed and had not slept all night.
Long Live Master turned the imperial green jade ring on his hand and turned a deaf ear to the anxious shouts of his two sons outside.
He pursed his lips and lowered his head.
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"Yinti, Yinti wants to see Khan Ama!!"
"Ahem, cough, cough, Yinzhi wants to see Khan Ama!!"
The hands on the chime clock rotated minute by minute. In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed, and the sky became dim and bright.
The voice of the eldest brother shouting outside gradually became hoarse, and the third brother also began to cough.
Liang Jiugong glanced in the direction of the entrance of the hall, then looked at the indifferent Long Live Lord sitting on the armchair, and couldn't help but whispered to Kangxi:
"Your Majesty, it's snowing outside. The third brother has been kneeling outside for almost an hour, and the eldest brother has been kneeling for less than half an hour. The two of them can't stand it anymore."
After hearing the words of his confidant eunuch, Kangxi, who was sitting in an armchair, opened his slender red eyes and said softly in a hoarse voice:
"Go and call them in!"
"yes!"
Liang Jiugong heard Kangxi speak and walked out quickly.
He opened the cotton curtain on the mahogany door of the hall with his hand, and through the dim light and dim sky, he saw two "snowmen" kneeling on the ground.
The brothers, whose whole bodies were numb from the cold and whose voices were hoarse from shouting, saw Liang Jiugong coming out, and their eyes lit up.
Yinti pressed his hands on the ground and shivered, then reluctantly stood up from the cold snow.
Seeing this, Xiao Shuanzi, who was kneeling behind him, got up from the snow with red eyes and helped Yinti.
Yinzhi also imitated his elder brother's example, hurriedly pressing his hands on the snow to get up from the ground, but he knelt for too long and had not yet stood up. His legs became stiff and he wanted to fall down again.
"Third brother, be careful!"
Yinzhi, who was standing nearby, saw the swaying Yinzhi and quickly reached out to hold his arm firmly. Third Brother's personal eunuch also hurriedly supported the trembling master.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing at the door of the hall, saw the miserable appearance of the two brothers. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and secretly thought: If Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong saw the snowman appearance of the eldest brother and third brother at this moment, they don't know if they would regret it.
Have that kind of audacious ambition in your heart.
"Eldest Brother, Third Brother, Long live the Lord calls you two to come in."
Liang Jiugong lifted the cotton door curtain high and shouted to the two brothers standing in the snow.
After hearing this, Yinzhi and Yinzhi hurriedly supported each other and walked forward slowly, raised their legs and stepped across the mahogany threshold into the warm hall.
The personal eunuchs who followed the two brothers stood at the door with big sweaters and clothes in their arms, waiting silently.
As soon as the brothers entered the door, they saw tea on the carpet in the hall, broken porcelain pieces, and broken jade. The floor was in a mess, and there was not even a place to set foot.
Their hearts became even heavier.
Kangxi saw his two sons walking in hand in hand, covered with snow. He clenched his right fist tightly on the armrest of the armchair, stared at the two brothers standing at the door with cold eyes, and narrowed his tone with indistinguishable joy and anger.
Eyes said:
"Yinti, Yinzhi, do you two want the dragon chair under my butt?"
As soon as Kangxi finished his straightforward words, Liang Jiugong's eyelids jumped heavily.
When Yinzhi and Yinzhi heard what their Khan Ama said, it was like thunder rang in their ears, which made their heads go blank. Before their heads could react, the two brothers' legs shook.
He bent down and knelt heavily on the hard and cold floor tiles, hoarse and hoarse, he answered back and forth:
"Khan Ama, Yinti is terrified! Yinti's wish has always been to become a general who will expand the territory of the Qing Dynasty! He has never thought about the throne!"
"Khan Ama, Khan Ama, Ming, Mingjian, Yinzhi has had a stuttering problem since he was a child. He has always wanted to be a wise king like Uncle Fuquan who assists the emperor. Like his elder brother, he has never had the problem of stuttering.
The thought of competing with the crown prince’s second brother for the position of heir apparent!”
When Kangxi heard what his two sons said, he saw the eldest son's eyes were red with tears in his eyes, and the third son's face was pale with tears streaming down his face, he wanted to kill Na La and Ma Jia.
Sure enough, these two poisonous women were secretly swaying his sons!
He pressed the imperial green jade ring in his hand tightly, with such force that the knuckle of his index finger turned white when he pressed it with his thumb. His shoulders were shaking with anger, and he continued in a hoarse voice:
"But your sweet mother-in-law has always wanted to be the Holy Mother Queen Mother! Yesterday during the day, Baocheng's daughter-in-law was just diagnosed with pregnancy, and the child in her belly is not yet human-shaped!"
"Yinzhi!"
When Third Brother heard Kangxi calling him, his shoulders shook uncontrollably and his head hung lower.
"How dare your mother-in-law, Concubine Rong, secretly send people to find a magical secret medicine. The secret medicine she expects will have the effect of turning all the children in the belly of pregnant women, regardless of gender, into female dolls as long as they take the medicine.
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After Yinzhi heard these absurd and ridiculous words, he raised his head in disbelief and stared blankly at his furious Khan Ama.
Yinti, who was kneeling next to him, also felt his heart tremble, and then he heard his Khan Ama roar again:
"Yinti!"
"Your mother-in-law, Nala, has an even more vicious heart! She actually dug out all the good things from the bottom of the boxes in the Yanxi Palace. She either soaked these precious things in musk water or soaked them in musk water, which were intended to be sent to the East Palace as gifts.
Soak it in safflower soup!"
"And most of these items were given to her by your Aunt Ukuma and Aunt Huangma when she was pregnant with you and your brother Chengqing!"
"Tell me, your mother-in-law ruined the items given by Empress Xiaozhuang Wen and the Empress Dowager and prepared to send them to Yuqing Palace. Does she want Baocheng's daughter-in-law to have a miscarriage? Or is she planning to do so?
I want the Crown Princess to be sterilized so that she will never have a legitimate child for the rest of her life!"
"Musky water", "miscarriage"!
"Safflower soup", "sterilized pregnancy"!
The four words hit Yinti's heart hard, and Yinti seemed to be hit by a thunderbolt, and suddenly became cold from head to toe.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing aside, saw the eldest elder brother and the third elder brother, their faces were pale and their bodies were shaking like chaff. He also buried his head. He couldn't bear to look at the two emperor elder brothers who had suffered a heavy blow.
Deep in my heart
With a long sigh, she exclaimed: Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui are really committing evil! After spending a lifetime in the harem, they managed to raise their son to the position of concubine, but if they don't keep it tonight! They also put the eldest brother and the concubine together.
The third brother was tricked!
"Khan Amma, this, this."
Yin Ti's litchi eyes turned red and her mouth was murmuring. When she came, she thought about the words to plead for her mother, but now she couldn't say a word.
He has a daughter and knows what it is like to be an Ama. Not to mention that he has no intention of seizing the legitimate son in this life. Even if he has, he will fight with Yin Reng with real swords and guns in the front and will never stretch out his hand.
To his younger siblings, and his future nephews and nieces!
"Khan Amma."
Yinzhi was also ashamed, shocked and afraid, and pressed his forehead heavily on the cold floor tiles in front of him, weeping. At this time, except for the three words "Khan Ama", like his elder brother, he worked hard to come up with something for Concubine Rong.
All my pleas were bottled up in my stomach, and I couldn't even utter a single word.
Kangxi pursed his thin lips, closed his eyes, and suppressed the murderous desire for Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong in his heart. Veins popped out on his forehead. He slapped the armrest of the armchair with his hand and continued angrily.
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"You all know how Baocheng treats you two on weekdays, and how your empress treats you!"
"Yinti, ask yourself, since you were a child, if your mother-in-law hadn't risked her life to save your life several times, how many times would you have died now? I'm afraid the grass on the grave would have grown taller than you do now!"
When Yinti heard this, his face turned redder with embarrassment, and he lowered his head in embarrassment.
"Yinzhi, please think about it with your conscience, how did your second brother, the prince, treat you in the past? Did he hit you or scold you?"
"Yuqing Palace and Chuxiu Palace owe you Zhongcuigong and Yanxi Palace! Your mother-in-law actually wanted to make Baocheng their unborn legitimate daughter, and the legitimate daughter was ruthlessly strangled in her mother's womb! Thanks to them both, she was still alive
As a mother! How could you have such vicious thoughts!"
"If it weren't for the sake of you two and the face of your future children, Ma Jiashi and Nala would be two cold corpses now. I would like to see if you two will still be alive by then.
How dare you go to Chuxiu Palace and call you Huang Eniang, and call Baocheng "Second Brother, Second Brother!"
"I've made my words clear! You are no longer children and can distinguish right from wrong! Go back and reflect on yourselves! I don't want to see you two now!"
Kangxi, who was blushing and thick-necked with anger, finished his words in one breath, scolded Yinzhi and Yinzhi furiously, stood up from the armchair with a "swish", stepped heavily, turned around and left with a puff of sleeves.
Yinzhi and Yinzhi watched their Khan Ama leave. All the strength in their bodies was gone. They sat limply on the ground, their eyes were dull, and they didn't know what to say.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing aside, bit it, sighed, walked up to the two brothers, and spoke out:
"The eldest brother, the third brother, Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui were discovered by Lord Long Live before they had time to attack the East Palace. Because they did not attack, the child in the Crown Princess's belly has not been harmed yet. Lord Long Live
Only then did he open up the net and did not stab the two empresses to death, nor did he drive the two empresses to Shengjing to guard the mausoleum."
"The mausoleum of Empress Xiaozhuang Wen is not far away, and Long Live Lord has not restricted you two from visiting him. You can't say for sure what will happen in the future."
Liang Jiugong finished his words quickly, took a deep look at the eldest brother and the third brother, then turned and left.
Yinzhi and Yinzhi looked at each other and understood what Mr. Liang wanted to express:
The East Palace has not been seriously harmed, and the two of them have not yet formed a mortal enemy with the crown prince's second brother/brother. If they make great achievements in the future, maybe when the crown prince's second brother/second brother ascends the throne, they can still take E Niang back.
I am retiring in my own house.
After coming back to their senses, Yindi and Yinzhi hurriedly stretched out their hands to wipe the tears from their faces, got up from the ground, and stumbled out.
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Half an hour later, the sky above our heads was already bright.
The crying in Zhongcui Palace and Yanxi Palace became louder and quieter, and gradually no crying could be heard at all.
The imperial concubine sat on a soft couch in the main hall of Chuxiu Palace. Prince Yinfeng, fourth elder brother Yinzhen, thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang, and fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen sat side by side on armchairs. The five of them were all silent, like What are you waiting for?
At this time, Zhang Tianxi opened the cotton curtain of the hall, stepped over the threshold and walked in quickly, leaned towards the imperial concubine and said:
"Master, the eldest brother and the third brother went to the Qianqing Palace to ask for a meeting with the Long Live Lord. Then with tears in their eyes, the two brothers personally sent Concubine Rong and Concubine Hui out of the palace."