Emperor Kangxi sent me to marry

Chapter 38 Vegetarian Food
The convoy drove for another two hours before slowly stopping. Hai Feng let out a long sigh of relief.

It's finally time to eat.

But the bad news came soon: I ate at the nunnery at noon, that is to say, I was vegetarian.

Ah Xiang lightly got out of the car first, making sure that there were no other people around, and then helped the two masters get out of the car.

The surrounding mountains and clear waters are beautiful and inaccessible.

Xiaozhuang also doesn’t want soft sedan chairs, and is served by Aunt Su Ma, who slowly climbs up the mossy rocky road with a cane. Just as Concubine Tong wanted to dissuade her, she was turned back by the old lady’s eyes.

The eldest princess hurriedly took Hai Feng's hand, followed at the end of the team, and climbed the mountain without saying a word.

Fortunately, I only climbed a hundred or so steps before I saw the gate of a nunnery, and two old nuns were already kneeling to welcome them.

Hai Feng was very surprised to find that Xiao Zhuang treated the two of them very easy-going, as if they had known each other for many years.

We went to the main hall to enjoy incense together, and the sun was a little slanted.Hai Feng didn't dare to look at his watch, but estimated the time to be around three o'clock.

She is really hungry.

Because the nunnery is not big, there is no room that can accommodate everyone to eat at the same time, so it is roughly divided into three teams: the empress dowager, the empress dowager, and the east wing served by concubine Tong Huanggui; the four princesses are led by the eldest princess It is located in the West Wing Room; several rooms in the south are used by Concubines Gui, Concubine Hui, Concubine Rong, and Concubine De.

Kangxi's harem concubine ranks above, and almost all of them are dispatched.

However, when Hai Feng and the eldest princess were planning to eat, only the third princess was in the west wing room guarding a table of steaming vegetarian dishes.

"Third sister, where is the second sister?"

The third princess hesitated for a long time before she dared to say a word.

"The empress dowager called her away."

Of course, the second princess is not going to eat fast, but to eat punishment.

As a grandniece, the Empress Dowager knew the character of her aunt and grandmother.

The more expressionless she is now, the angrier she feels.

So even though Concubine Tong led Concubine Rong and the Second Princess, they had been kneeling for a while facing the Guanyin statue facing south, and the dishes on the table were completely cold, the Queen Mother did not dare to say a word of persuasion, and they were hungry and waited for the old man to calm down .

The room was full of silence, only the Second Princess' fearful breathing became heavier and heavier.

"Come on, don't be hungry anymore, let's eat. We'll be on our way later."

Tong Jiayixian understood that it was the empress dowager's outburst outside the palace to save her face, so she quickly knelt down at Xiaozhuang's feet again, and solemnly kowtowed to confess her crime.

"Empress Dowager, you have a lot of elders, and this servant knows that he has made a mistake. I beg you to punish me severely. This servant has a long memory."

"Where did you go wrong?"

"As far as the Empress Dowager is concerned, you, the Empress Dowager, and the Emperor are the ones to decide the marriage of the princess. The slaves are only responsible for the careful handling of errands and are not worthy of meddling."

"Well, it makes sense. Girl of the Tong family, you haven't become a queen yet. You need to know your position. Concubine Rong, how about you?"

Concubine Rong hurriedly pulled her daughter and knelt down before Concubine Tong, kowtowing again and again to apologize.

"The slave is so confused, I beg the Empress Dowager to punish him severely."

Xiao Zhuang looked at the faces of the three of them one by one, and saw that the great-granddaughter still had a faint look of disapproval, so he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Second princess, you are not too young, and you are not too old. I am at your age, and I have almost married Emperor Taizong as a side Fujin. There are some things you like to listen to, and you don't like Listen, I'm going to tell you too."

She took a sip of coarse tea and gently put down the cup.

"You bullied the third princess and didn't allow her to take her entourage to Mulan. Don't think I don't know the reason! How much money did Concubine Rong spend in Harqin? She is so young and has a vicious heart!
Concubine Rong was so frightened that she was trembling all over. Although the second princess was also frightened, her neck was still stuck.

"And your fourth younger sister, just to vent her anger on Concubine Rong, to pinpoint her own marriage and win the battle, she will let the vicious dogs ruin her appearance! If this matter gets out through Duke Duling, Let the Qing royal family be ashamed, Second Princess, you can either kill yourself with a piece of white silk, or get a pair of scissors now, cut off your hair and become a nun. See if your great-grandmother is so cruel!"

After all, Concubine Rong loved her daughter dearly, and kept kowtowing to Xiaozhuang to beg for mercy.

"The empress dowager, all slaves are confused for a while, and the princess doesn't know anything..."

"It doesn't matter whether you know it or not. Second princess, aren't you optimistic about my great-grandson, Taiji Urgon of the Ministry of Bahrain? Well, I will fulfill you. Be honest and wait for me to marry, and don't do those dirty things again." Dirty tricks, plot against your sisters!"

As soon as this statement came out, the three people on the ground were dumbfounded.

Xiaozhuang didn't even bother to squeeze out with a sneer.

"Why, don't you believe it? In the future, the second princess will be both my great-granddaughter and my great-granddaughter-in-law. We will get closer and closer, and we will have a good marriage. But my original plan was that even if Xuanye was angry, I would still have to marry her." I left you guys in the capital, by my side. You only care about being a concubine, how can you understand the pain of marrying far away. In the future, don’t forget to follow Princess Shuhui, and go back to the palace from time to time to see the emperor and your mother. Concubine, that's all."

"Thank you, Empress Dowager."

Seeing Concubine Rong's mother and daughter thanking her, Xiao Zhuang spoke slowly again.

"I know, you're seeing Si Gege, I love her more recently, so I'm anxious, afraid that she will surpass me and marry higher. But second princess, have you ever thought that the better the marriage, the heavier the responsibility. Since it is If you want to make a marriage, you have to focus on both ends. The last one who is in trouble is yourself caught in the middle."

When the Queen Mother heard what her aunt said, she also felt heart-wrenching pain, and she shed tears.

For Mongolia, she and her sister stayed in the Forbidden City all their lives as widows, wasting their youth for 30 years.

"Okay, you guys go back, I'll have a word with the Queen Mother."

Concubine Tong led Concubine Rong's mother and daughter to kneel down and leave. In the small wing room, the two silently ate the cold dishes.

After finally finishing eating, Xiao Zhuang put down his chopsticks and asked about the Empress Dowager Ji Lan.

"How is Guo Guiren's arrangement?"

"I've taken care of everything. In the palace, I left Guo's mother behind. You know, it's Guo Guiren's great-aunt who watches her closely."

"Yeah. I have two beautiful daughters, and you brought them from Shengjing for seven or eight years. Concubine Yi is just fine, and she will make it through slowly; Mrs. Guo Gui, I am really worried. The imperial physician means that this pregnancy I was pregnant at the wrong time, and I didn't make up for the shortfall of drinking Bizitang, plus the worry in the early stage and the fear in the later stage, I am afraid that the fetus will not be able to support it; even if it is born, it will not live long."

For the worst result, Xiao Zhuang didn't want to say it.

How did Queen Hesheli die?

A woman's childbirth is a walk through the gates of hell.

If she can't keep Guo Guiren's child, how can she appease Si Gege who may marry Mobei in the future?

Could it be that Guo Guiren is really allowed to leave the palace and go home?
Like Si GeGe proposed, give her freedom?

　Considering that the description in this chapter about Guo’s mother being the aunt of Yifei’s sisters is a bit abrupt, a side story about the process of their sisters entering the palace will be updated on the 10th and 12th.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)