Clearly, she doesn't want to be a concubine

Chapter 103
"Why are you not my son? You were born in my October pregnancy, and I raised you to that size."

Monk Xingchi sighed for a long time: "I was originally a monk in the West, why did I fall into the emperor's house?"

The Empress Dowager is a person with a strong personality. Because of this toughness and stubbornness, no matter what difficulties she encounters, she will not be destroyed. She can climb up from the abyss again and again.

But this kind of firmness is completely useless in front of his own children.

After many years, she finally regretted it.

She said: "I knew today, so why not allow you to be with that Dong E family at that time."

He looked at her, at his mother-in-law, but like an old man looking at a vexatious child, he calmly said: "You can't keep the day of yesterday, and please ask the empress dowager and the emperor to protect your body for the country."

He calmly said: "Please go back."

He lowered his head and continued to knock on the wooden fish.

The empress dowager was so angry that she stepped forward and kicked the wooden fish away.

Monk Xingchi closed his eyes, turned the beads in his hand, squirmed his mouth, and recited the Buddhist scriptures silently.

The empress dowager snatched the beads in his hand and smashed them on the ground. The thread broke and the beads scattered all over the place.

Monk Xingchi didn't respond, he just recited Buddhist scriptures.

The Empress Dowager's chest rose and fell rapidly, she turned around and walked out the door, wiping away her tears.

How did their good mother and son end up like this?

Kangxi watched these silently from the side, he was already an adult, but at this moment, he couldn't say anything.

It is said that it is difficult for an upright official to decide on family affairs. Even if he becomes the emperor, he will not be able to make a correct response at this time.

A thought flashed through his mind, if Concubine De was here, she should know how to deal with it.

This is just his guess, it can't be true.

He finally chose to step forward to support his imperial grandmother.

The Empress Dowager slowly walked out of the courtyard, and when she went out, there was still no sound from the people in the room.

Wait until everyone leaves.

The little novice came in: "Elder, they have all left."

"Let's go to today's evening class."

"Yes."

Monk Xingchi finished reciting the Buddhist scriptures calmly, neither sadness nor joy in his eyes.

He has already solved the mystery of the womb and was able to see the past life.

He knew in his heart that it was a destiny for him to become a monk, and it cannot be changed by manpower.

Just like Buddha.

Before the Buddha became a monk, King Jingfan built a new city because the Immortal Ashita predicted that he would be an enlightened person, and sent all the widows, widows, lonely, sick, disabled and old people to the new city.Lest the Buddha see that all living beings are suffering and feel pain in his heart, and want to become a monk.Later, he married the beautiful princess Yasodhara as his wife and gave birth to a child, Rahula.

However, these still did not leave the Buddha.

Buddha left one night to seek the way of liberation.

How similar is his experience to that of the Buddha?
In this world, when some people do certain things, they cannot be stopped by all difficulties and dangers.

What if the world doesn't understand?

He recited Buddhist scriptures day and night, not only for self-transcendence, but also for atonement.

His ancestors and him, for the sake of this country, killed too many people and committed too many crimes. His son and his descendants will continue to commit crimes in the future.

Also to save Dong E and her children.

May the people in the world who died because of him and his ancestors and descendants be reborn in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, free from disease, pain and disaster, happy and healthy.

His mother-in-law and many people thought that because of Dong E's and that child's early death, he became a monk in frustration.

But later, he thought of Buddha countless times, so he clearly realized that the Dong E family is to him, just like Yasodhara is to Buddha, it is the thread that temporarily keeps them in the secular world.

But with or without them, they will eventually become monks.

Ever since he was a child, he felt thousands of times in his mind that he shouldn't live in a place like the palace.

He was out of place with the whole palace.

He is like a traveler who has gone astray, living in the wrong place, the feeling of loneliness and unfamiliarity makes him extremely uneasy, gnawing at his heart day and night, making him unable to get along, so his temper is grumpy and irritable .

This irritability and irritability will be greatly reduced when he reads the Buddhist scriptures.

In that kind of calm, he had the idea of ​​becoming a monk more than once.

It's just that when he met Concubine Dong E later, and he was able to say a few words, he thought that maybe the people before him didn't understand his heart, so he had the idea of ​​becoming a monk.

He can wait any longer.

However, maybe he was destined to have a predestined relationship with the Buddha, and both their child and her died early.

Therefore, in this world, there is no thread that can keep him—his concubine and children don't need him, and his mother-in-law is at odds with him.

Without him, maybe it is the best choice for his mother-in-law, concubine, children, courtiers, and Jiangshan.

He could finally choose his own path without any scruples.

After he became a monk, he also had this idea. If she and the child hadn't died so quickly, he might have become a monk just like the Buddha in those days.

Yasodhara and Buddha have been a husband and wife for many lifetimes, and they have children by their side.

But Buddha was destined to become a monk, so they couldn't stop him no matter what.

He thought, he might as well.

It's just that she died too early after all.His speculation has no way of knowing the answer.

In the east of the Forbidden City in Beiping City, the willows are gone with the wind.

The thin horse with withered vines and red sun is slanting, and it has failed to live up to the beauty's kindness.

Knowing about Damengkong, I only regret that it is too late to wake up.

He got up, calmly picked up the wooden fish, put it in the usual place, picked up the beads one by one, connected them with a thread, one hundred and eight, and still rotated as usual.

He did not eat.

He kept strict precepts, one meal a day and no food after noon.

He got up and walked around, sitting under the eaves, looking at the white clouds in the sky.

The white clouds are three thousand feet away, washing away the dust in my heart.

With these merits and virtues, I will save you to the Pure Land.

On the other side, Kangxi took the Empress Dowager back.

The Empress Dowager rested for a night, and then she regained her spirits. She sighed: "Go back."

Lying on the bed, she murmured: "Maybe my relationship with his mother and child has been severed long ago, and I shouldn't have come."

Kangxi wanted to say something.

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes wearily: "Let's leave in a while. Su Mala, pack up your things and prepare to go back."

"Yes." Aunt Su Ma agreed, winked at Kangxi, and said after he came out, "Master doesn't want to stay anymore. Your Majesty will listen to you."

Kangxi agreed, and he said again: "Er Niang should try to persuade the emperor's grandmother more."

Aunt Su Ma nodded and said, "The servant knows."

She looked at Kangxi lovingly: "Your Majesty should also be more open-minded, there is nothing difficult for a man on the grassland."

Kangxi nodded with a smile and left.

He went back to the wing room, a young novice was waiting outside the door, seeing him coming back, he put his palms together and said: "Elder Xingchi asked the little monk to deliver a message."

"You said."

"Clavicle Bodhisattva." After the little monk finished speaking, he bowed and left.

Kangxi Bowen has a strong memory, so he knows what it is, but he doesn't understand why Monk Xingchi told him these four words.

He should have asked, but he didn't want to ask the man.

Compared with the emperor's father whom he hasn't seen for more than 20 years, the emperor's grandmother who has been raising him is more important.

Before leaving, Kangxi asked Liang Jiugong to find the abbot of Baiyun Temple, and left two tablets, one was the child of Umalu who died young, and the other was the child of Emperor Tong Jia who died young.

The abbot of Baiyun Temple said to himself that he would chant scriptures for them every day, save the souls of the dead, and help them achieve blissful rebirth.

Liang Jiugong offered him the hundred taels of incense oil that Kangxi added to Baiyun Temple.

Back to the palace in chariots, horses and sedan chairs.

On the way back, I heard that Concubine Yi gave birth to the emperor's nine sons on August 27th, and the mother and child were safe.

This good news somewhat dilutes the condensed atmosphere on the way back to the palace.

Even the Empress Dowager, who had been in a bad mood, showed a bit of relief when she heard the news, and praised Concubine Yi in a rare way.

"Good girl, when I go back, I will reward her with a pair of Ruyi jades."

Kangxi was also happy to add two rewards.

All the way north, it took nearly a month to arrive.

When we arrived at the Forbidden City, everyone, Kangxi was busy dealing with the government affairs when he left, and he didn't forget to visit the concubines in the palace in his spare time.

Concubines and above have been there, but concubines such as Concubine Yi and Concubine Tong Jia have been there more, and concubines such as Concubine De and Concubine Niu Hulu who are pregnant have also been there.

The rewards that should be given have also gone to the palace that should go.

Perhaps he did well enough, or the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager had experienced what happened to Emperor Shunzhi, so they didn't dare to push him too hard. They didn't say anything about the incident involving a Concubine De in the middle, and they almost acquiesced. .

Everything went on in an orderly manner.

In September, the Qing government ordered the invading army of the Raksha State, which was entrenched in Yaksa and other places, to withdraw from the Qing territory.The army of the Raksha Kingdom ignored it, and instead led their troops to Aihui to plunder. The Qing general Sabsu defeated him and burned all the strongholds established by the Tsarist Russian army in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, making Yaksa an isolated city.But the Tsarist Russian army stubbornly resisted.

On the 22nd of the same month, Umalu gave birth to the ninth daughter of the emperor.

Kangxi received the great victory sent by Sa Busu, and said happily: "Reward."

He not only rewarded Sabsu and the army, he also rewarded Umalu and the children.

He walked around the room happily and said with a smile: "Liang Jiugong, look, look, Concubine De is really my lucky star, this Gege came very timely."

He was so happy that he turned around a few times: "No, I want to give the best thing in the world to my little Princess."

He thought for a while, and went to find the Empress Dowager first.

When the Empress Dowager heard what he said, she felt a little helpless: "I still need to help you take care of the child with my old bones. What do you think? It's better to let the concubine and the others take care of you for you. It's really not possible. You let Su Mala It’s also a good idea to show you.”

Kangxi said with a smile: "I can watch it, but let Er Niang help raise it."

Aunt Su Ma quickly shook her head: "The slave is now wholeheartedly taking care of the master, and only wants to pray for the master and the emperor."

The Empress Dowager also spoke up and said: "I see what your mother said, after a hundred years from now, you can let her raise a child, at least it can pass the time."

Kangxi agreed: "Then the grandson has promised the emperor's grandmother, can the emperor's grandmother also agree to the grandson?"

"You little slicker." The Empress Dowager has been depressed for a long time since she came back from Mount Wutai.

Maybe the blow she experienced was too great, or maybe she really looked away, and now she doesn't care about those things more and more.

The Empress Dowager said: "Speak."

"I want to send the daughter born to Concubine De to the empress's care, and I hope the emperor's grandmother can help me."

The empress dowager is a smart person, and when he said this, he knew what he was thinking: "Well, now you see that I don't hate that concubine De, and you also want to make your mother-in-law not hate her, right?"

Kangxi didn't deny it either, and said with a smile, "I can't hide it from the emperor's grandmother."

The Empress Dowager smiled and shook her head: "You, you, you follow your biological mother, like a Han, so much thought."

She didn't refuse either: "You can talk about it yourself, if your mother-in-law doesn't want to, then ask her to come to me, and I will talk to her personally."

The Empress Dowager did not really like Concubine De, but after this trip to Mount Wutai, she began to reflect more on how she got along with her son at that time.

She is getting older now, and she doesn't know how many years she will have to live. She doesn't want to watch the Empress Dowager and Kangxi go down the old path of her and Shunzhi.

When I get older, I only look forward to the harmony of the family.

Seeing that she agreed, Kangxi was happy in his heart, and talked with her for a while before leaving.

This time, I went to the Ciren Palace first in a sedan chair. Who is Umalu is still in confinement and can't see her face.

He planned to wait for Umalu to go out of confinement before talking to her.

Before that, he had to make an agreement with the empress dowager, so as not to send it directly when the time came, if the empress dowager didn't pick it up, Umalu would be slapped in the face.

He wasn't sure what kind of feelings he had for Umalu, but he himself knew that he treated Umalu differently, so he naturally didn't want to see Umalu being wronged.

After entering the Palace of Mercy and Benevolence, the Empress Dowager saw him coming, and said: "Why is the Emperor free to come?"

"I think the Queen Mother will come."

The empress dowager smiled, and said with a bit of doting: "I don't know your temperament about our mother-child relationship all these years? Tell me, what is it for? Is it Defei again?"

Now that it was exposed, Kangxi touched his nose and didn't hide it, he just said: "I said before that I would trouble the Empress to raise two more children, but the Empress is not strong enough, she just wants to raise another one. Now the child of the Imperial Concubine died young, I thought it would be the same to send Concubine De's child to be raised by Empress Huang. No, let's come and tell Empress Empress ahead of time."

The empress dowager wanted to say a few words about him, but this was the child she raised by her side, not to mention better than her own, but she didn't really want to do anything to him.

She sighed and didn't refuse him after all: "Send it here."

She said again: "Don't expect me to change my opinion of Concubine De."

She snorted: "All these years, she never came to pay her respects."

Kangxi laughed and said, "I'll talk about her when I go back."

He turned around: "It's also pitiful, she is not in good health, and she doesn't even come out of the Yonghe Palace very much, I'm afraid I can't even recognize the way to Huang Erniang's place."

The Empress Dowager knew that he was explaining to Concubine De, so she didn't want to talk to him, but felt that the intimacy and ease when he talked about Concubine De was like how she got along with Eji Abu in her memory.

She shook her head, didn't think about it anymore, just asked him to sit down, and asked a few words: "How are you doing recently?"

"Is the court affairs troublesome?"

"Feel good?"

　In fact, when I wrote this, I thought of Wang Xiaofei and his mother, and suddenly burst into laughter.

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　　Maybe it's my prejudice, I really think that Shunzhi doesn't love Concubine Dong E, and I don't even have anything to say, the pursuit is conflicting, I watched a video before, to the effect that Shunzhi really loves her, so he won't put her on fire inside and outside are not human

　　But this can be explained by the fact that they are more rough and not as delicate as the Han people
　　But if you check the information, you will find that the two people basically talk to each other when they get along.
　　But this kind of talking is much better than other people in the Shunzhi Harem, just... I can still say a few words
　　Here on baidu, I’ll make a brief summary, you can check it yourself if you are interested: Every time Shunzhi reads the memorial, after reading it, he just throws it aside. Concubine Dong E reminds him that he should read it carefully and not ignore it; whenever Shunzhi wants to read it with her When playing the chapter, she quickly thanked her again and explained: the harem cannot interfere in politics.
　　Every time Shunzhi listened to the lectures given by the officials of the Imperial Academy and returned to the bedroom, she would definitely inquire about the contents of the lectures, and he would explain them to her again.

　　She often persuaded Shunzhi to obey people's hearts in handling government affairs and be cautious in judging cases.

　　Concubine Dong E didn't believe in Buddhism. Shunzhi sometimes used some Zen classics to tell her and explain the deep meaning of "Heart Sutra" to her.Therefore, it has become a treasure that she admires and respects.Concentrate on studying Zen.Shen Wu explored "Where can I settle down if I can't take a breath", every time I meet Shunzhi, I always mention this sentence, Shunzhi always laughs and doesn't answer

　　Their relationship is typical: I say I kill people without blinking an eye, but you ask me if my eyes are dry

　　
　
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