Clearly, she doesn't want to be a concubine

Chapter 179
That was the last time he traveled with Er Niang.

The weather was fine that day, and his mother hoped that he could live a good life.

He was free from illness and disaster, and lived to be nearly 70 years old in peace.

In ancient times, it was a long life.

Thinking about it countless times later, he was only thankful that his mother left early so that he would not see their brothers turn against each other.

He misses his mother and the emperor very much.

I also think that the brothers were joking and joking back then, even if they were dirty, it was just a few words of yin and yang.

Unlike later, the building will collapse and fall apart.

But I can't go back after all.

Now, he still doesn't know the sorrow and despair that followed.

He just said coquettishly: "Emiang is only allowed to give it to me, not to anyone else."

Umalu teased him with a smile: "Then what should I do? I asked for a safety button for your fourth brother, and I asked for a similar one for your ninth sister."

Yinzhen was unhappy and said, "Then why don't you ask me for one?"

Umalu smiled and said, "You are right by my side, why don't you choose by yourself?"

Yinzhen pulled her and said unhappy: "Emiang chose for the fourth brother and the ninth younger sister, so she chose it, but she is not allowed to give it to anyone other than us."

Umalu nodded: "Okay."

Only then did Yinzhen feel happy, and walked with Umalu for a while, and returned to his residence after having dinner in the afternoon.

When Kangxi came at night, he asked her: "Where did you go in the afternoon, there was no one there."

Umalu said, "I thought you knew where I was."

Kangxi smiled without saying a word.

Kangxi flipped through a few pages of Buddhist scriptures, and said to Umalu, "In a few days, you can accompany me to meet someone."

"it is good."

Life in Wutai Mountain is still peaceful, but it is a little different from the Forbidden City.

Morning bells and evening drums, sandalwood incense curling up, and Sanskrit sounds bursting out.

The monks chanted together.

"I wish that in the next life, when I attain Bodhi, my body will be like glass, clear inside and outside, pure without blemish, bright and vast. My merits and virtues will be majestic, my body will be good and peaceful, and my evil spirit will be solemn..."

"I hope that when I attain Bodhi in the next life, if there are sentient beings who walk in the wrong way, please let me live in the path of Bodhi..."

……

Wumalu listened to the Sanskrit sound quietly, and sipped tea with Tong Jia Cangxue in the backyard wing room.

Tong Jia Cangxue said: "You are right. At the beginning, it was indeed interesting. Now that I have stayed for a long time, I feel that the outside is nothing more than that."

"People's hearts are fickle, and they get bored easily."

"Yes." Tong Jia Cangxue squinted, sitting on the rattan chair under the eaves, looking at the white clouds in the distance.

The guards and maids are far away.

Tong Jia Cangxue said, "Let me tell you a story."

"it is good."

"Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was never married because of a fortune teller's comment." Tong Jia Cangxue said slowly, "She thought it was okay at first. Until later, she found someone she liked."

"and after?"

"Later she entered the palace."

Tong Jia Cangxue laughed and asked her: "What do you think of this story, is it funny, is it interesting?"

Tong Jia Cangxue touched her face: "I'm getting old."

There were already fine lines on her face.

"I can't wait."

I can't fall in love anymore.

What she thought was important when she was young, looks like that now.

A few days ago, she heard that that person had already raised a group of children.

She also heard that that person's first wife is a very good woman, gentle and graceful, kind and generous.

Not as eccentric as she is.

She let it go in an instant.

In this life and in this life, that's it.

Umalu raised his glass: "To you."

She pointed to herself: "Respect me."

She raised her glass to the void: "To all the women in this world."

Tong Jia Cangxue raised his glass, was startled when he heard the words, and couldn't help but burst into tears: "Except for my good family background, none of the others can compare with you. Perhaps, there are few women in this world who can It's better than you."

"You are smart, transparent, and open-minded. You are strong, brave, and kind. In this deep palace, every time I see you, I also feel that there is a lot to gain in this world without making myself dark and ugly."

Tong Jia and Cangxue toasted her: "I am not as good as you."

"I respect you too." Umalu returned a cup.

Umalu poured another cup, and bowed to the void: "This cup is a cup of thousands of reds, and a cup of thousands of colors, to all people in the world."

Tong Jia and Cang Xue also raised their glasses to celebrate together: "Together."

Tong Jia Cang Xue gulped it down: "Have you also watched "The Story of the Stone"?"

Umalu smiled but did not answer, looked at Tong Jia Cangxue, and joked: "Can we be considered an old man talking about teenagers?"

"I just don't know where our Huang and Cang went?"

The two looked at each other and smiled without saying a word.

After a while, Tong Jia Cangxue stopped smiling: "It's you who made me feel that entering the palace is not a bad thing."

"It's nice to meet you too." Umalu smiled.

"Don't you think I'm weird?"

Umalu shook his head: "It's very good of you."

Tong Jia Cangxue: "You are fine too."

Tong Jia Cangxue burst out laughing upon hearing this.

She is a smart, cunning, and thoughtful woman.

People who don't like her think she has a weird temper.

Those who like her love her beauty.

Umalu only sees the good of others, and doesn't care about the bad of others.I feel that Tong Jia and Cangxue are good everywhere.

The two laughed, drank tea, and ate dried fruit preserves and chatted.

Hepin and Gao Zaiyi went shopping in the back mountain and felt bored, so they came to look for her.

The four chatted for a while, discussing how to play the leaf card.

Three days later, Kangxi took Umalu to a courtyard.

There is a monk with white beard and hair in the courtyard, with a calm face, compassion and serenity.

The monk looked at her, smiled slightly, and seemed to understand everything: "It's been so hard for you."

Umalu looked at him suspiciously, and then at Kangxi.

Kangxi nodded to her.

Umalu clasped his palms together and saluted, "Thank you Master for your compassion."

"Since it's here, let's settle down, and just treat everything as destiny." Elder Xingchi said, "Everything is entangled with cause and effect, and today is what it is."

He seems to know everything.

If it was in the past, Umalu still has something to ask.Now, she has nothing to say.

Elder Xingchi looked at her gently and forgivingly: "I heard from him that you think people should be responsible for their words and deeds."

He nodded: "That's good."

"Words and behaviors will always lead to endless results, and no matter what the results are, there will always be results." Elder Xingchi said, "I am accepting my results, and you must also accept the results of your own choice."

He seemed to have said everything, and it seemed he hadn't said anything.

After pondering for a while, Umalu asked him: "If a person has no choice, will she also accept the result?"

"People will never have no choice. The so-called no choice is just because the best choice you can make is exactly the one you don't want to choose."

Umalu lowered his eyes: "I probably understand."

Umarufu raised his head and looked at him: "So...it is true that I have been escaping all this time."

Elder Xingchi smiled and said nothing.

He took out a jade Buddha pendant and gave it to her: "May you be safe and well."

Umalu took it with both hands: "Thank you."

Elder Xingchi looked at Kangxi: "Sit down."

Kangxi also sat down.

Elder Xingchi looked at the two of them: "You guys have to be good."

Umalu nodded.

Kangxi endured until now, and couldn't bear it anymore.

He said, "wait for me outside."

Umalu glanced at Kangxi, nodded, backed out, and closed the door.

Elder Xingchi took out a box from his hand, which contained a gold bracelet inlaid with seven precious stones.

He handed it to Kangxi.

He said: "When I left, I didn't understand anything. It was just a voice in my heart that told me to take it with me."

"The sun and the moon rotate, and now fifty years have passed." Elder Xingchi said, "I probably know what this is."

Elder Xingchi looked at Kangxi: "I leave it to you."

Kangxi held the Seven Love Bracelet, he couldn't speak for a while.

Elder Xingchi has already looked away from these things: "Your grandmother is gone, and you are old too, with children and grandchildren around your knees. These are all very good."

"Xuan Ye, you are the emperor." Elder Xing Chi said calmly and clearly, "I didn't want to stay in Beijing when Empress Xiaoxian passed away. Besides, I was also afraid of encountering your current predicament at that time. .”

He didn't see any father's feelings for his son.He was just like an elder who met someone who could speak well, so he said a few more words.

"If you become an emperor, you can't be an ordinary person. Even, you can't be a human being." Elder Xingchi looked outside the house. He seemed to be able to see the mountains and rivers outside and the entire Qing Dynasty through the wooden boards of the house. He said, "You are far more difficult than I was then, but you are also far luckier than me."

Elder Xingchi said: "She is a very good person, for you, she voluntarily stayed in the human world."

When he saw the woman for the first time, he knew that this was the foreigner he asked Xuan Ye to bring, who was detained in this world.

He didn't know where she came from, but he saw that her cultivation was so high that she would no longer be reincarnated in the evil world, but she was tied to Xuan Ye by a red rope.

Only that woman willingly agreed to Xuan Ye, that would be the case.

Elder Xingchi sighed, "She has the heart of a Bodhisattva and has done the things of a Bodhisattva. I would like to save you and stay in the human world. I am not as good as this."

Kangxi had nothing to say.

Elder Xingchi looked at him with peace in his eyes: "Apologize to your empress for me, I missed her."

Elder Xingchi has nothing to say.

Elder Xingchi said: "Xuan Ye, let's go and live your own life."

He closed his eyes.

Kangxi retreated hesitantly, and he put the Qiqing bracelet in his sleeve.

Not long after, the abbot sent a monk to report that Elder Xingchi had passed away in the afternoon.

Asked about the time, it was almost not long after Elder Xingchi met Kangxi.

Kangxi reacted belatedly.

The emperor's father, who had been avoiding him all this time, only met him this time to explain his funeral.

He couldn't even cry.

He sat in front of Elder Xingchi's coffin for a long time, listening to the Sanskrit sounds.

He thought nothing of it, but felt miserable.

Want to cry, but can't cry.

Umalu sat with him for a while, asked the palace servants to prepare hot tea for him, and told Yinzhen and Yinxiang to take care of Kangxi more before going down to rest.

At night, Yin Shuang'er came to report that Liuli had gone.

Umalu lay on the bed for a while, then got up, put on his coat, and went to the wing room to look at Liuli.

Liuli is older than her, and has already lost her youth, and is now over fifty.

Umalu sat beside Liuli, looked at it calmly for a while, and told Yin Shuang'er: "Call someone to pretend for her."

She reached out her hand to touch Liuli's neat bun, and said, "She was the best when she was alive."

Yin Shuang'er felt sad, and persuaded: "Sister Liuli walked away in a dream, master, don't be sad."

"It's okay." Umalu looked at her, "Hurry up and get someone to prepare."

Umalu touched Liuli's cold cheek.

She murmured: "Good girl, you go, go..."

If there is an afterlife, don't be reborn in these ages again, what a slave.

May you be born in the spring breeze, walk in the sunshine, and do whatever you want in the next life.

Free and unfettered.

She has never regarded the people around her as slaves, and Liuli is more like her sister.

She put her frequently used handkerchief into the coffin along with Liuli.

Kangxi sent someone to invite her.

She arrived at Elder Xingchi's yard.

Kangxi asked her to sit with him, and Umalu sat down.

Kangxi said: "I heard that your court lady named Liuli has also gone."

"Yes."

Kangxi sighed: "She is a loyal servant, so she will be buried with the ceremony of a nobleman, and she will be buried with Elder Xingchi's coffin."

Kangxi said: "The burial place was specially calculated by me. It is a treasured place of geomantic omen."

Umalu said sincerely: "Thank you."

Kangxi held her hand and shook his head slightly: "You and I, you don't have to be polite."

"In fact, I never thought of growing old with you." He said this abruptly, "You make me feel scared. In front of you, I seem to be not me anymore. I always think, wait one day, If you get tired, I will leave you alone."

He looked up at the sky.

Outside, it was dark.

"In this life, I have made promises to several people, but you have not. In the end, you are by my side." Kangxi didn't need her answer, "Maybe... it's always God's will to trick people."

"Things in this world are unpredictable, and may not all get what you want." Umalu shook his hand back and looked at him, "Everyone is just on the same journey as anyone."

She knew he didn't want to listen to these big truths.

So, she said: "All I can accompany you is my whole life. I dare not promise the rest."

Such a promise always made him feel that it was not enough.

But he no longer knew what else he could force.

Umalu didn't say anything anymore, but accompanied him quietly.

His uneasy heart gradually fell.

He started to doze off tiredly.

Umalu asked Yinxiang and Yinzhen to carry Kangxi to the bed to rest.

Umaru told the two of them: "You guys have to work harder these days."

"Yes."

Although the two don't deal with each other, they won't make trouble in these matters.

Umalu left.

Several concubines and princes took turns accompanying Kangxi.

Kangxi walked out of the room after Elder Xingchi stopped for seven days, and asked people to prepare to return to Beijing.

Before leaving, Emperor Kangxi gave him a stone tablet with the inscription "Dang Tang Chang Rewards". ", with the word "reward" on the left.

On the fifth day of March, the tour team returned to Beijing.

After returning to Beijing, within a few days, the censor impeached Shifona, the hall official of the household department, and others, and embezzled and corrupted the warehouse silver in the household department.

Kangxi sent people to investigate and was supervised by Yinzhen, Prince Heshuoyong.

He has thought about it.

Among the several children, Du Yinzhen was the least able to get along with each other, and handled things impartially and directly.

(End of this chapter)