Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 548
Changchun Garden, Shouxuan Chunyong Palace.

The queen mother sat on the kang, smiling and looking at the great-granddaughter Yifei was holding in her arms.

She left Horqin when she was a teenager and entered the Forbidden City.Although she didn't have any children, her status as a concubine made her have a lot of children and grandchildren.

There are dozens of grandsons and granddaughters, and in the generation of the great-grandson, there are already hundreds of people.She has never seen many people, and now many great-grandchildren and great-granddaughters have grown up, even great-great-grandchildren.

Concubine Yi was sitting on a small stool next to the kang to coax her granddaughter. Seeing that the queen mother was interested, she smiled and put the little girl on the kang, and said to the queen mother in Mongolian: "Queen mother, look, this little girl's ears , just like her Ama, they all follow the master, it's really painful to watch."

The Empress Dowager could not speak Chinese all her life, and in the Empress Dowager's palace, all the slaves of Mongols and Manchus were at her command.Even when Kangxi came here to pay his respects, he mostly used Mongolian, and occasionally Manchu.

As early as when the Empress Dowager was still alive, there were no Han concubines in the harem. From the concubines to the eunuchs and maids, most of them spoke Manchu, and some spoke Mongolian, and very few spoke Han.

The death of the Empress Dowager marked the end of the Manchu-Mongolian era in the harem of the Qing Dynasty.

Although there is also a queen mother, who is not compatible with Chinese, but because she has always been honored and rarely interferes with palace affairs, her influence in the harem is completely inferior to that of the queen mother.

However, speaking Chinese is fine in other places, but in front of the Queen Mother, everyone still has to answer in Mongolian or Manchu.

Concubine Yi entered the palace early, and she is also a clever person.Not for anything else, just to please the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, she also learned Mongolian with great care and spoke it very neatly.

For this reason, among the concubines in the harem, the Empress Dowager treated Concubine Yi the most affectionately.

In addition, Concubine Yi's eldest son was raised by the Queen Mother herself, so getting along is different.

This little girl who was carried by Concubine Yi to the kang was about one and a half years old.It seems that she is not afraid of being stared at by people, and she stands there with dark eyes, looking at the queen mother with some curiosity.

When the queen mother saw her, she liked it very much. She stretched out her hand and pulled her to her, sat her on her lap, and praised her a few words in Mongolian.

The little girl pursed her lips, looked at Concubine Yi who was sitting on the stool, then at her mother and grandmother standing behind her, tilted her head, and stared eagerly at the golden coral bracelet on the Queen Mother's chest .

The Empress Dowager took a look, and took off the bracelet on the front of the front, and hung it on the button on the little girl's chest.

The little girl seemed very surprised, she opened her eyes wide and looked at the Queen Mother, and then looked down at her own front, already smiling so much that two dimples appeared.She stretched out a pair of chubby little hands, playing with the string of beads.

The queen mother squinted her eyes and rubbed the little girl's back with her hands.

The little girl was really happy, she grinned and laughed "giggle".

Suddenly, she stopped playing, stretched out two chubby arms, and wrapped her arms around the Queen Mother's neck.

The queen mother was startled at first, but then she was amused by the little girl.

The little girl put her arms around the Queen Mother's neck, poked her head out, and kissed the Queen Mother's cheek with a "paw", leaving a wet saliva mark.

This little girl is none other than Elder Sixteen's eldest daughter.

Today, she was hugged by her mother Guo Luoluo to greet Concubine Yi, and Concubine Yi was brought to the Empress Dowager Palace.

Elder Sixteen has only this one daughter now, and she is a direct descendant, so she loves her dearly like a treasure.

When we met, he just hugged his daughter in his arms and refused to let go. Whenever he saw something good, he always wanted to buy it for his daughter to play with, but he was a little closer than his son.

The interaction between father and daughter is to come to "Xiangxiang".

Changing the way to make the girl happy, and letting the girl "fragrance" herself is the usual pleasure of the sixteenth elder brother.

In a moment of joy, the little girl took the initiative to "scent" the queen mother for a while.

Although the queen mother has lived under the same roof for five generations and has many descendants, she rarely sees each other.

Even if we meet, the children have been taught the rules by the adults, and they will only kowtow to say hello and observe the word "ritual". This is the first time for them to show their nature like a little girl.

The queen mother was also very happy, seeing that her great-granddaughter liked the golden coral jewelry, she asked someone to send over several golden coral jewelry in the jewelry box.

There are collars, prayer beads, prayer beads, rings and earrings.

In all odds, half of the kang was set up.Bright red, very eye-catching.

The little girl couldn't see it anymore, she didn't know which one to touch.

Seeing that she was reaching out to grab the ring, the Empress Dowager quickly handed her a collar to play with, and then told Concubine Yi: "Let the sixteenth daughter-in-law keep it for the child, or put it in your mouth, it's a big deal. Daddy!" Let her play with the things I have, and give them to her when I leave."

Apart from the Queen Mother and Concubine Yi, Concubine De was also in the room, sitting on the stool opposite Concubine Yi.Standing behind Concubine Yi are concubines Wang and the sixteenth Fujin mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and behind Concubine De are fourteenth Fujin and several young nobles accompanying them in the garden.

There are ten or twenty pieces of golden coral jewelry on the half kang, if you say it, you will reward it, even Concubine Yi is a little jealous.

Concubine Yi laughed tremblingly, she turned her head to Concubine Wang and Fujin Shiliu and said: "Hurry up and thank me, even I'm jealous. When this great-granddaughter comes, she has caught the eyes of the Empress Dowager." , and flattered with a smile: "Borrowing the Queen Mother's good words, it is also the child's blessing to be praised by the Queen Mother today, and to be rewarded by the Queen Mother!"

Wang Concubine and Sixteen Fujin stepped forward, their bodies already planted like green onions, and they lowered down to thank them.

The Queen Mother smiled and waved her hands, calling them to get up.

Concubine Yi smiled again and said: "Queen Dowager, this child is fifteen months old and hasn't been named yet, otherwise I respectfully ask the Queen Mother to give him a name."

The Queen Mother nodded with a smile, thought for a while, and said, "The nickname should be Baoyin."

Everyone in the room, except for a few young nobles and Sixteen Fujin who have entered the palace for a short time, are not very familiar with Mongolian.The other concubines De, Yi and Wang have all studied Mongolian for half their lives, so they naturally know the meaning of "Bao Yin".

Baoyin is Mongolian, and it means "blessing" when it is replaced with Chinese.

It is auspicious and generous to use this as a child's nickname, which is very appropriate.

This time, even Concubine Yi got up, and together with Concubine Wang and Sixteen Fujin thanked the Queen Mother for giving her name.

The room was full of joy and harmony, and the eunuch outside the hall raised his voice and said: "Report to the Queen Mother, Li Shitong, the wife of the second-class Bo Cao Yin, Li Shitong, and Princess Rui, came to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager."

The liveliness in the room instantly cooled down, the Empress Dowager looked at Concubine De, then at Concubine Yi, frowned slightly, and gave orders to the servants nearby.

In the early years, there were also many wives from the Empress Dowager's side who paid their respects.

Due to lack of physical strength in the past few years, the old man is afraid of noise, and except for receiving gifts at the Holy Birthday Festival, he rarely sees other married women.

Occasionally summoned two, nothing more than old people who have been through the ages, to come and talk about ancient things.

This time she made an exception to summon Mrs. Li, but the queen mother was very angry.

As the old man gets older, his temper becomes stubborn.

She has a nephew of a direct relative who wants to stay in the capital to work here, but due to various family laws and regulations, she only fills a gap. She has nothing to do all day long and has to come to the Queen Mother's side to strike the clock every now and then.

What the Cao family relied on was nothing but Sun's affection for taking care of Kangxi for ten years.

This made the Queen Mother very uncomfortable.

Although she and Kangxi are mother and child affectionately now, but the relationship in the early years was not close.

The Cao family is just a slave in clothes, just because of the honor of the Sun family, the son is a high-ranking official, the granddaughter is married to the county king, and the grandson points to the princess, plus the whole family raises the flag, this is already very dignified.

Nowadays, even if a woman is pregnant, she has to order the nanny of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is still treated by the palace.

The relatives on the queen mother's side are not even comparable to a slave. How can the old man feel at ease?
Although Mrs. Li also entered the palace with other imperial orders to pay her respects during the Shengshou Festival last year, but she just stood in the crowd and saluted, the Empress Dowager didn't pay much attention to it.

After a while, Li Shi and Chu Yu had already come in with the servants.

After a few steps into the house, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law squatted down.

Mrs. Li spoke in unfamiliar Mongolian, saying: "Your slave, Mrs. Li respectfully invites the Empress Dowager Shengan."

On Chu Yu's side, it was replaced by: "Great-granddaughter respectfully invites the Empress Dowager's ancestor Shengan."

The queen mother was slightly taken aback when she heard Mrs. Li speaking Mongolian, and then looked at Chu Yu, guessing that it was her great-granddaughter who suggested it.

If Mrs. Li was a vulgar woman with jewels and emeralds all over her, the Empress Dowager's anger would still be dissipated.

Biansheng Li's manners are moderate, although he is wearing a plain grass green cheongsam, the running water patterns on the cuffs and collar are embroidered extremely uniquely, revealing a bit of extraordinaryness.

The Empress Dowager became more and more disgusted, she just felt that this person's heart is out of date and out of order.

This slave is more famous than the master, it is really unwelcome to see.

"Well, let's get up!" After a long time, the Queen Mother replied, with a bit of indifference in her voice.Her face was tense, and she looked at Li Shi with a bit of pickiness.

Her eyes slid over Li Shi's slightly protruding belly, but she couldn't say she was jealous, but envious.

She has seen both Cao Jiashi and Cao Yong siblings, and knows that they are all good-looking children.

The woman in front of her can be regarded as a blessed person, but the blessing is too much, how can a lowly person bear it?
The queen mother was muttering in her heart, Li Shi and Chu Yu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had already got up.

The moment she saw Li's appearance, the queen mother couldn't help but panicked, with a confused look on her face.

Concubine Yi and Concubine De were secretly paying attention to the Empress Dowager's side, seeing the Empress Dowager like this, they were very surprised, at this moment, they heard the Empress Dowager say: "Mr. Li, come to the kang."

Li Shi's greeting in Mongolian was learned from Chu Yu before the battle.

She doesn't understand the Mongolian language of the Queen Mother.

Chu Yu roughly understood, and told Mrs. Li in a low voice.

Although Mrs. Li was worried, she still obeyed the order, walked a few steps forward, and stopped when she was three or four steps away from the kang.

The Queen Mother seemed to be looking for some shadow in front of Li Shi, carefully sizing her up several times, and finally her eyes fell on her ears.

The Empress Dowager's expression was very complicated, and after a long while, she asked, "Your natal family... is the Li family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Suzhou now? Are you... born in the year of [-]?"

Mrs. Li lowered her head, not noticing the strangeness of the Empress Dowager.Listening to the Mongolian language of "Gulu Gulu", she couldn't help sweating in her palms.

This is just a formality when entering the palace to pay respects, who would have thought that the empress dowager would find someone to talk about family matters.

But this really doesn't make sense, so what should I do?
But even Chuyu couldn't understand what he said, and looked at Concubine Wang as if asking for help.

Wang Pin watched coldly, her mind was on Li's side, and she didn't see Chu Yu's pleading for help.

Seeing what the Empress Dowager meant, it was as if meeting an old friend. Could it be that the old Madam Gao had entered the palace in the early years?
Concubine Wang was a little confused, she just felt that it was so foggy that she couldn't see clearly.

Seeing that the concubine Wang didn't pay attention, Chuyu felt anxious, so she wanted to take a step forward and tell the Queen Mother about her mother-in-law's disagreement in Mongolian.

When Shiliu Fujin saw her, he quickly waved his hand to stop her, then pulled Wang Concubine beside him, and whispered.

Only then did Wang Pin save herself,

On the Queen Mother's side, she had changed to clumsy Chinese and asked, "You...are pig..."

All the concubines in the room were amazed, this was the first time hearing the Queen Mother speak Chinese.

Mrs. Li nodded, and said respectfully: "If you go back to the Queen Mother, the servant was born in October of the year of Xinhai, and it is a pig."

The Empress Dowager didn't know whether she understood it or understood it, she turned her head and said to Concubine Yi in Mongolian: "Tell her, let her take two steps closer to Ai's house and raise her head to answer."

Concubine Yi was listening cheerfully before, but at the end she froze.

The empress dowager's face had put away the previous indifference and impatience, only puzzlement remained.

Concubine Yi quickly squeezed out a smile to cover up her strangeness just now, and said to Li Shi: "Li Shi, the old queen mother told you to come forward. Go forward two steps, stand in front of the queen mother and raise your head to answer."

Mrs. Li bowed her head and listened, and then walked to the kang according to the Queen Mother's instructions.

The Queen Mother grabbed Li Shi's arm, looked up at Li Shi's eyebrows, her body was already trembling a little.

But after a while, the empress dowager's eyes were already red, she pursed her mouth, and said: "You...Er Niang...tomb...where..." After saying this, the old man was in tears, choked up and unable to speak.

Such a sudden change made Concubine Yi, Concubine De and the others terrified, they couldn't sit still and stood up.

Mrs. Li's arm hurts from being scratched, but her heart is confused. Could it be that the queen mother is old and blind, and has recognized the wrong person, or else, her mother is taking care of her in Suzhou. Come?

"Queen Mother, the servant's mother is now taking care of her cousin's house in Suzhou. She is over sixty years old, but her bones are still strong." Li replied softly.

After listening to her talk, the queen mother hurriedly turned to look at Concubine Yi.

Concubine Yi was also confused, so she calmed down and repeated Li Shi's words in Mongolian.

The queen mother frowned, shook her head, and said, "No, no..."

The empress dowager's gaffe frightened Xiao Baoyin who was sitting on the side, and couldn't help crying with a "wow".

The queen mother was in a daze and didn't realize it.

"Get out!" Kangxi's voice came from the door.

After hearing this, the Queen Mother hurriedly turned her head to look, and asked, "Emperor, is she the daughter of your Fifth Aunt?"

When Kangxi heard "Fifth Aunt", his face turned pale, and he looked at Concubine Yi and the others with a serious look in his eyes.

Everyone, including Mrs. Li and Chu Yu, greeted Kangxi first, and then went out one after another.

Kangxi hesitated for a moment, and said to Wang Bin: "You take Li Shi and He Rui to your residence, I will go there later, I still have something to say..."

(End of this chapter)