Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

Xuan Ye came in, feeling chills all over his body. Concubine Wen stepped forward to take off her cloak, handed over the stove, the emperor held it in his hand and smiled and asked, "You've been here all these days? You've worked hard."

"A concubine should serve my elder sister." Concubine Wen stepped aside and asked the emperor to go inside, while she gave the cloak to Dong Yun, and took the maid to sit elsewhere.

Xuan Ye walked in casually, just as the western bell was ringing, both he and the empress looked at the big clock, the empress said first: "I heard that the emperor has a new promotion and got a new one? The concubines also want to open their eyes." Then she sat on the couch and bowed , claiming to be sick and unable to get out of bed to salute.

Xuan Ye said with a smile: "It's in the warm pavilion of Qianqing Palace. When you're done, go and have a look." As he spoke, he sat aside and looked at her carefully, "Your complexion is very bad, it's getting colder and colder, but It needs to be raised for the winter."

"The concubine is better, thank you for remembering, it's snowing, why is the emperor here?" The queen was worried, thinking that she would see the angry emperor, who came to ask herself why she tormented his beloved nobleman, and thought it was a black man. Ya Shi turned around and would go to the emperor to complain, did she really think wrong?

"I have something happy, I thought I should tell the queen first." Xuan Ye smiled deeply, and the queen looked weak and haggard in comparison, but when he heard the emperor's words, his eyes shone, and he only listened to the emperor's words. Said, "Shang Zhixin has also surrendered, and now in San Francisco, only Wu Sangui, that old fox is left. All these years, I and the ministers and soldiers have not worked hard in vain."

"Really?" The queen was overjoyed when she heard the words. She knew the importance of San Francisco to the emperor, and perhaps what surprised her was not who surrendered, but that the emperor was the first to tell her that he was so happy to accompany him for ten years. For a few years, I have never been treated like this before, and my blood surged all over my body for a moment, as if most of the illness had gone away. After recovering, I smiled and said, "My concubine congratulates the emperor, Wu Sangui must also be dying, and the emperor's peace of San Francisco is just around the corner."

Xuan Ye was overjoyed, and said to her: "Then take good care of your body, I have ministers of civil and military affairs in the previous dynasty, and the family in the harem belongs to you."

With tears in her eyes, the empress bowed her body to agree, but she remembered the matter of the noble man kneeling here for a long time in the morning. Although the emperor didn't mention it, maybe he didn't know about it, but she knew in her heart that she did it on purpose, and she just wanted to torment Wu Yashi on purpose. , but how could she have thought that the emperor would really respect her as a queen.

"The affairs of the court are always busy. After all, I have neglected to discipline the prince. Now I am about to develop a temperament for the rest of my life. I thought that when you are well, I will send the prince to the middle palace and let you take care of him. Now you With my own younger sister by my side, I will not be afraid to tire you out if I have a trustworthy person to help me in everything." Xuan Ye continued to speak slowly, "You are my queen, so naturally the prince should be raised by you."

The empress stared blankly at him, secretly swallowing the breath stuck in her chest. Everything that she could not ask for before, such as adopting a child, the position in the middle palace, and the emperor's care... now I have it, but why is my heart still empty? It's not as good as holding that breath. What else does she want?

Xuan Ye didn't seem to care about her embarrassment and stagnation, and said to himself: "Your sister is very good-natured, the emperor's grandmother and the queen mother like it very much, but she looks weak, you know Tong Guifei's temper, don't ask her to bully you your sister."

The queen's eyes were moist, she lowered her head, rubbed her eyes and smiled: "The emperor can't say such a thing, the noble concubine should be wronged when she hears it, she is so nice, why did she bully the concubine's younger sister."

Xuan Ye also laughed: "I'm just joking. As for her temper, you also understand that one thing more is worse than one thing less. Your sister is too weak."

The queen leaned back and said: "You love her so much, my concubine would like to thank the emperor on behalf of my sister."

"I'm going to tell the imperial grandmother the good news. If I don't sit with you for longer, I have to take care of myself." Xuan Ye handed the stove to her, turned around with a slight smile, and left. The queen stared at his back with the stove in her hands, and just covered her Tears rushed out of her eyes, but she didn't understand why she was crying.

It was heard outside that the emperor was going to drive, so Concubine Wen hurried over to serve her, but Xuan Ye had already gathered her cloak, saw her coming and smiled slightly, telling her not to see her off, and went straight out the door without saying anything.

Concubine Wen knelt in front of the door to see her off, she only got up when the emperor left the Kunning Palace, turned around and came in, but she saw her elder sister crying while holding the stove she handed to the emperor just now, she was so frightened that she was lying on the edge of the kang and kept asking what was wrong, It took a long time for the empress to say with a smile in her tears: "My sister is happy. The emperor Tete came to tell my sister that Shang Zhixin surrendered. The emperor also said that the empress dowager likes you very much. Good sister, you have brought me a lot of blessings."

Concubine Wen was ignorant and didn't quite understand, she just tried to comfort her: "Since it's a happy thing, sister, don't cry, it's ruining your body."

On this side, Xuan Ye came back to the Palace of Compassion and Peace despite the wind and snow. Although he sat in a warm sedan chair, he walked a short distance from the door, which was enough to make him cold. The clothes on his body were changed into clean ones, and when he approached the Nuan Pavilion, he saw the prince writing with his great grandmother. Seeing him coming, the prince hurriedly climbed down from the kang to salute and kowtow. Xuan Ye picked up his son, sat down together and asked Grandmother: "Is this child disturbing your rest?"

"Among the older brothers and younger brothers, the prince is the quietest. Are you noisy?" The empress dowager said with a smile, asking the wet nurse to carry the prince away, while showing the handwritten words holding the prince's hand to her grandson, "The prince is very smart. It’s just that the temperament is too dull, at this age, you should be alive and kicking, the big brother was so naughty at that time, I was so angry that I beat him once, but shouldn’t children be lively?”

Xuan Ye said: "Grandson thinks, if you let him follow me, you will inevitably learn to be submissive and too cautious. Now you can see that the prince should have the demeanor of the prince. It is not a good thing in the long run, so I discussed it with the queen. When she recovers from her illness, she will be sent to Kunning Palace to be raised by her, and children who are taken care of by Er Niang are always better."

"Since you have already made up your mind, what else can I say?" The Empress Dowager laughed, "It was reported that Shang Zhixin had surrendered. That year when Geng Jingzhong surrendered, you rushed to tell me excitedly, but this time you just sent someone To put it bluntly, when I asked them where the emperor had gone, it turned out that he went to tell the empress himself.”

"It's my grandson's fault for neglecting the emperor's grandmother. Don't be angry." Xuan Ye blamed himself with a smile, and saw his grandmother smiling happily, "Why should I be angry? The imperial grandmother is happy."

Xuan Ye was a little embarrassed by the words. He also understood the changes in himself in the past two years, and only then did he truly understand what is meant by an emperor's air. How can an emperor who is rich in the world care about women like them? What they want is nothing more than love. Intimacy, the person who can't be equal to a bowl of water is himself, and he should be more tolerant and magnanimous. He cares as much as before, and he doesn't look like an emperor.

As for today's incident, he didn't intend to go to tell Zhonggong in person, naturally he should come to announce the good news to his grandmother first, but he just heard that Lan Qi knelt in Kunning Palace all morning, quietly, without any reason How could Xuan Ye not feel sorry for letting her kneel like that all morning for no reason.But he was not the young and impulsive emperor before, so he decided to go to Kunning Palace in person, hoping that his magnanimity could reduce the resentment in the queen's heart. What he was looking forward to was the long-lasting peace of the harem .

"In this way, you can keep that girl Lan Qi by your side for a long time. I didn't like that grandson in the past." Beauty cannot be equally important, and a mediocre king is naturally not worthy of having anything, but my grandson is a wise king, and an emperor who wants to be an ancient and wise king, how can he not be accompanied by beauties?"

Xuan Ye joked: "Lan Qi is not a beauty, she looks more and more ugly now, and has a bad temper, there is nothing lovable about her."

The empress dowager was overjoyed, she pointed at the nanny and said, "Su Mala, hurry up and send someone to tell Deguiren that the emperor despises her..."

The grandparents and grandchildren were joking and enjoying themselves happily. Perhaps there should have been a turmoil, but it was resolved through Lan Qi's forbearance, the emperor's generosity and the empress dowager's kindness. There is only one person, in the dead of night, fearful and restless.

When everything she once dreamed of is within easy reach, her life has fallen into extreme confusion instead, and her heart is more empty and hesitant than ever.Unable to sleep at night and restless at night, Empress Niu Hulu has been lingering in bed since then. Fortunately, she finally recovered in the twelfth lunar month. When she and all the concubines greeted the Empress Dowager at the Palace of Compassion, they looked much better.

The emperor sealed it very early this year, on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month. In the first few days, he personally led the crown prince in the Kunning Palace, and stayed overnight in the Central Palace at night, so that the crown prince could gradually adapt to the care of the queen mother, and the queen had a young son. Under the knees, there is no distraction and no time to think about other things, the mood is getting better, and the body is recovering day by day, so that the emperor's efforts are not let down. The relationship between the emperor and empress is more harmonious than at any time in the past ten years.

In the twinkling of an eye, the new year is just around the corner, but it snows continuously for several days, which is nothing compared to the first snow. In the cold deep winter, the snow accumulates solidly every day. On the day before the new year, it is said that the place with the deepest snow in the palace, Almost over a person's knee.

Every day in the Zhongcui Palace, there are little eunuchs sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to shovel the snow and clear the road. It was a very hard job, but the nobles and nobles rewarded them generously, and they were polite and generous, so they were sent to work in the Zhongcui Palace. It became a fat job for a while.

This day, someone came to sweep the snow as usual, and the snow accumulated up to the ankles in the yard overnight, and it was spread on the ground as thick as a blanket. Lan Qi lay down at the window every day to watch, eager to go out for a walk, but since the beginning of winter It was snowing, and after she came back from Kunning Palace that day, the emperor sent someone to order Huanchun to take good care of his master, saying that she was weak and not to run around in snowy weather, so if she didn't go to the Compassionate Palace to serve Mrs. During the days of the empress dowager, she was "under house arrest" in the bedroom, and every day she just lay down at the window to satisfy her greed, watching Yukui and Jinhe build a big snowman in front of her window.

But today, Huanchun went to the House of Internal Affairs, and Mrs. Bugui went to the Empress Duan’s place because of Duanjing, and only Yukui and Xiangyue were left in Zhongcui Palace. Snow, Lan Qi came out tightly wrapped up, and built a snowman with the two of them. After making a half-sized snowman, Lan Qi was already sweating from the heat.

Xiangyue and Yukui went to the back to find coal radishes to make eyes and noses for the snowman, leaving her alone at the front, looking at the blanket-like snow on the floor, Lan Qi, who was playing hot and hot, suddenly took off her shoes and socks on a whim, Jumping into the yard at once, the snow was soft and smooth, and it was unexpected that it didn't make her shiver from the cold. Lan Qi had a great time playing, but was soon seen by Xiangyue and yelled.

"Don't shout, come and step on it too, it's comfortable." Lan Qi said as she walked back, her bare feet scrambling into her shoes, when she looked up, she saw that Xiangyue Yukui had knelt down. Inexplicably wanting to ask, she heard Xuan Ye's voice behind her and asked her: "What are you doing?"