Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

Eunuch Liang tremblingly said: "This servant intends to get rid of everyone involved. This servant will never mention the matter of stones to anyone other than Long Live Lord. Those who serve the prince to change clothes must also..."

"You go back to the palace overnight." The emperor interrupted Eunuch Liang's words, unknowingly let go of his clenched fists, stared at the winter hat on Eunuch Liang's head, and said with murderous words, "You go back to the palace secretly, for me Get rid of one person first, pry out everything you can know from the living mouth, and then what to do, you understand."

Eunuch Liang was shocked, and turned his head up to ask the Holy Master: "Who does Long Live Lord want slaves to do?"

In the deep night, Eunuch Liang ordered his most capable men to serve the emperor, so he took his waist card and under the cover of the emperor's trusted guards, he left Changchun Garden secretly, avoiding eyes and ears.This time, when he returned to the Forbidden City, he was about to start a slaughter. He knew that the emperor was in a hurry, and he didn't want to wait for him or others to figure out the cocoons. He had always had the fastest way to know many things, but there were too many people and things to take into account. Now the prince is forced to commit suicide, and the emperor can't wait.

God knows, if the prince sinks into the lake tonight and dies, it will be a great shame to the court and the royal family. This shame will be passed down from generation to generation. Even if the emperor spends his life creating a foundation for eternity, it will become an indelible stain on him .

In the Ningchun Hall, after the prince and the fourth elder brother were brought back, the queen mother arranged a room for them to sleep in. As expected, the queen mother was not very close to the prince. After a few polite words of concern, she came to the fourth elder brother's room , the little eunuch at the bottom was rubbing medicinal wine on the fourth elder brother's knees, the queen mother scolded: "You have always been the most obedient child among the brothers, look at this troublesome one."

Yinzhen hurriedly apologized: "Grandmother, grandson is wrong."

The queen mother smiled and said: "Grandmother has no grandson who made mistakes in her eyes. I can't bear to blame you. I love you and your mother-in-law. Her waist is so injured that she can't move anymore. I am worried that you will kneel out in Qingxi Bookstore. Anyway, I can only send Huanchun to beg me to bring you out, your mother must not be asleep right now, so I will worry about you."

Yinzhen lowered his head and said softly, "It's my grandson who is not good."

"Think about it for yourself. When you see your mother tomorrow, give her an explanation. Other people are fine." Qi will definitely teach her son that she doesn't have to worry too much, and she will go to rest after a few words of comfort.

Sending off the imperial grandmother, the fourth elder brother cleaned up and lay down wrapped in a quilt. He closed his eyes and was still full of the appearance of the prince throwing himself into the lake. His memory was subjectively and clearly portrayed by him recalling the words of the prince in the Qingxi Bookstore Nuange just now.Because of this, he suddenly felt that everything was too unreal, and even the feelings at that moment were all imagined by himself. Only the desperate words of the prince made him worry. His brother was forced into such a desperate situation?What's the point of being a prince?

This night was doomed to be restless. Lan Qi couldn't fall asleep even after taking the soothing decoction, and she couldn't move her body. He just fell asleep, so he had to go back to Taoyuan Bookstore to study. The third elder brother asked him what happened, and he still only mentioned what he said in front of his father, but even the third elder brother slapped him on the head and said: "It's dark! What kind of fish are you catching?"

Sure enough, no one would believe this excuse, but Yinzhen and the prince had agreed that he would only use this excuse when he was beaten to death, but he did not expect that Er Niang would really beat him.

After the morning class was over, he ran to the servant's room to see Xiao Hezi. Xiao Hezi and several other eunuchs who served the fourth elder brother were all dragged to beat the board last night. Each of them had [-] boards, killing half of their lives. He was still dying at the moment, and the strong smell of ointment in the room made the fourth elder brother almost suffocate.

After he left Xiaohezi after saying some consoling and promising words, people from Ruijingxuan came and invited him to see his mother.Entering the door of Ruijingxuan, I felt the atmosphere inside and outside the room was gloomy, and then entering the mother's bedroom, I saw Huanchun standing beside him with a pale face holding a cane in his hand.

Yinzhen's heart was pounding, his mother raised her body and half lay on the couch, he stood in front of the door and dared not go in, but he heard his mother ask: "Why don't you come in, I broke my knee last night and can't walk Yet?"

From childhood to adulthood, I only saw the slaves in Chengqian Palace being beaten, and I only saw Xiao Hezi being beaten for him in the study. The adoptive mother hardly touched a finger of him, and even if he made a mistake, he would be scolded or punished to stand at most After a while, it must be the adoptive mother who can't hold back to coax him. He has never had the fear of punishment, but today he saw the cane in Huanchun's hand, and saw the injured but imposing mother on the bed. I can't even move my legs.

The ferocious sound of the rattan cutting through the air and the muffled sound of the whipping on the flesh made everyone shudder. Luzhu and the others waited outside the door and wanted to go in at any time to dissuade them, but they only heard the whipping sound but not the crying, and they didn't know what to do. It's time to do it, Ziyu asked timidly: "Is Si elder brother not willing to admit his mistake?"

At this moment, in the Qingxi Study House, a eunuch rushed to report in a hurry, saying that the prince was unwell early in the morning and was left in the Ningchun Hall by the Queen Mother to continue resting. Now he has a high fever and is a little confused.

Xuan Ye rushed over, and Yinfeng was really dizzy with fever, his body was hot like a stove, after all he was distressed, the prince had acne in the past, and he was by his side day and night, at that time the fever was so bad Holding the hot child in his arms, what he thought in his heart was that he must take good care of his son and train him to be the best heir. The crown prince was the only thought left to him by his wife, and he could not lose the crown prince.

But why can't he have such a pure mind now, why has his feelings for his son undergone such an earth-shaking change now?Did the prince disappoint him time and time again, or did he do something to disappoint the prince first?What Xuan Ye hated most in his heart was that the Crown Prince would attack the Empress Dowager, even though there was no conclusive evidence for those things, he could not convince himself that the Crown Prince was innocent.

"Emperor Niang, Empress Niang..." the sleeping prince murmured, as if seeing someone in a dream, Xuan Ye felt a sudden heartache, and couldn't help holding his son's hand. The prince seemed to feel something, and gradually fell asleep. Feeling calmer and breathing easier.

The Empress Dowager pressed the corners of her eyes slightly with a handkerchief, she seemed to be pitiful for this motherless child, and she was about to persuade Xuan Ye not to blame them too much and let the prince recuperate with her, but the mother outside the door came in to report, with a worried look on her face Said: "The Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, according to the news from Ruijingxuan, the Empress Dowager Defei has beaten the fourth elder brother very badly, and I don't know if she still beats him now."

The queen mother was very anxious, and sighed repeatedly: "I was worried last night, but I guessed it right. What is Lan Qi doing? The fourth elder brother is so old, how can he still fight?"

But Xuan Ye said coldly: "The age is less than twelve, not much older. After I got married, I was beaten by the emperor's grandmother. Why can't he be beaten? It is 23 years old, as long as he is still a son , can still fight."

Seeing the emperor's attitude, the queen mother did not say anything more after a few words of persuasion. Xuan Ye really asked his aunt to take care of the feverish prince, and left the prince in the Ningchun Hall. He didn't stay for too long. .The eunuch who followed him when he went out politely asked the emperor if he would go to Ruijingxuan, but Xuan Ye went straight to Qingxi Bookstore, and ordered: "After the fourth elder brother returns to Taoyuan Bookstore, come and ask me if I can go."

In Ruijingxuan, the fourth elder brother who was beaten was put in his younger brother's room to be given medicine, the fourteenth elder brother was taken away, and the thirteenth elder brother stood by and sobbed.He knew that the fourth brother was beaten, and he heard the sound of the cane being whipped. The frightened child didn't understand what was going on. Now, holding Liang Zhu, he secretly glanced at the elder brother who was lying on the bed from time to time, and murmured pitifully. crying.

"Brother Thirteen, shall we go out to play?" The wet nurse came to pull Yinxiang away, but the little elder brother refused while hugging the pillar, choked up and said, "I, I want to accompany fourth brother."

The wet nurse gently coaxed her: "Your Majesty is crying too. Brother Thirteen, why don't you go and comfort Erniang? Let's go and comfort Erniang so she doesn't cry, and come back to accompany Fourth Elder Brother, okay?"

Thirteenth elder brother also loved his mother, so he agreed immediately, followed the wet nurse, crying and said: "Fourth brother, I will come to see you later."

Lying on the bed, Yinzhen was so weak from the pain that he heard Thirteenth Brother's nurse say that Eriang was crying, his eyes were full of guilt and worry, he couldn't help biting his lower lip tightly, and the little eunuch who gave the medicine saw it and asked in a panic: : "Did the slave hurt you?"

This is really ridiculous. Yinzhen was in so much pain that he couldn't speak a long time ago. He didn't have the strength to worry about how the medicine would not hurt. Make a little noise, the stuffy heat can't dissipate." After a while, he said, "The servant entered the palace later, and didn't encounter what happened back then. I heard from the masters that the concubine Defei was still working as a regular in Zhongcui Palace. At that time, in order to help the Long Live Lord calm down the court affairs, he took the initiative to go to the Palace of Compassion and Prayer to beg the Empress Dowager to beat him up, but he didn't know what to smoke, and half his life was gone when he carried it back, but the masters said It was that beating that broke the relationship between the empress dowager and our mother for more than ten years. Fourth elder brother, please don't hate your mother, there is no son who would not be beaten by his own mother."

Yinzhen was dizzy from the pain, and he couldn't hear what the little eunuch said. In the past, when Xiaohezi was beaten for him, he always smiled and said it was all right. He really thought it was all right, but now he knows how much the person who is most loyal to him has suffered for himself.

On the one hand, he felt sorry for the little Hezi, but on the other hand, he was filled with guilt towards his mother. When he was carried out of his mother's bedroom, he had already seen her tears, and realized that compared to heartache, physical pain was nothing, but he was too weak. It was the first time he was beaten so hard since he was born, and he soon fell asleep.

On this side, Elder Brother Thirteen was lying beside Lan Qi, and from time to time stretched out his chubby little hand to wipe Erniang's tears, and said in a childish voice that he would be obedient and obedient so as not to make Erniang angry, her mood had gradually stabilized , but turned his face to see Huan Chun who was still sitting on the ground in despair and weeping, and said angrily: "Are you doing this to show me?"