Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 549
Changchun Garden, Shouxuan Chunyong Palace.

After everyone withdrew, only the Queen Mother and Kangxi's mother and son were left in the room.

The Empress Dowager's face turned pale, her lips trembled, and she said: "Emperor, Aijia lost his temper, this... this shouldn't be mentioned at all, it's just..." At this point, she couldn't continue, but she couldn't stop crying.

Kangxi took two steps forward, sat down on the edge of the Kang, took out a handkerchief, and wiped away tears for the Empress Dowager.His right hand is somewhat inconvenient due to the wind.

Seeing his trembling arms, the Empress Dowager couldn't bear it, she reached out to take the handkerchief from Emperor Kangxi's hand, and lowered her head to wipe away her tears.

"Emperor, it's been so long. The empress dowager has passed away for many years. Maybe Changshengtian will call me to go there sometime. What happened back then... I don't want to ask too much, I just want to know where Yuyin is buried But these years, I can't worship her even if I worship her. I don't know how lonely she must be... Ever since she entered the palace, she has rarely been out of the palace of the empress dowager. This harem female family is just like me... "The queen mother said, with sadness on her face.

Kangxi clenched his fists vigorously, with an indescribably complex look on his face, and said in a low voice, "Isn't he buried in the concubine's garden? Together with other deceased concubines, he is receiving tribute from his descendants."

The Empress Dowager heard the words, shook her head and said: "Don't lie to me, the Empress Dowager made people see it back then, and what was buried inside was just clothes. The Empress Dowager also remembers this matter, but she just doesn't want to mention it again... I am leaving , and didn't even open my mouth to ask..."

Kangxi's face turned white and red, red and white, unpredictable, finally sighed, and said: "Emperor Niang, her skeletal son has been turned into a human, and the ashes are enshrined in Wutai Mountain... one day, we two……"

His eyes showed nostalgia and attachment, and a woman's face appeared in front of his eyes...

The queen mother was stunned, looked at Kangxi and said: "It's been more than 40 years, you still remember, I don't know if this is Yuyin's blessing. It's just that it's easy to say, is Li Shi the daughter of Yuyin...Look at this eyebrow... ..."

Kangxi nodded, the Queen Mother swayed, and said after a long while: "Since she is her daughter, why don't you put her in the capital to raise her... so precious, entrust it to the Baoyi family, you... so cruel... From the grassland to the capital, she hid herself for half her life and never regained her identity until she died. How about her daughter..."

"I originally wanted to take their mother and daughter back to Beijing in the name of Brother Wang, but I didn't expect it to be a dystocia. Before she gave birth, she sent someone to Beijing to deliver a letter, objecting to my proposal and not wanting her child to continue her fate. Be someone else for the rest of my life..." Kangxi felt blocked when he thought of that woman's short life.

"So wronged, so wronged..." The Queen Mother muttered, "However, looking at Mrs. Li is a blessing, her son and daughter are all good children... Although she is 45, she looks like she is in her 30s... ...It's up to her, she looks young, she was already in her twenties before she left the palace, she still looks like fifteen or sixteen..."

Kangxi sat on the edge of the kang, but he was already insane.

Her mother was the most honorable woman in the world, and her father was once a great hero praised by the world.

She has an older brother, but she can't tolerate the existence of this little girl.She had an elder sister, but she was implicated by her father, married far away in Mongolia, and died in depression.

From the moment she landed, she was taken out of the palace and sent to Horqin, and when she came back she was already a little girl in her teens.

Her name has the character "Yin", which is homonymous for "Yin"...

That year, he was eight years old and she was eleven.

She helped him tidy up his clothes, and said softly: "From today onwards, you are the emperor, and you can no longer coax people, you must count on what you say..."

He patted his small chest and said: "Don't worry, I never coax people. When I grow up, I will marry you as my queen. In this palace, you can play wherever you want, and you don't have to avoid it anymore." people……"

That year, he was twelve and she was fifteen.

The big red wedding tent, the dragon and phoenix double candles with thick wrists, and under the red hijab, a young girl of cardamom age became his first wife.

Outside the palace wall of the Compassionate Ning Palace, the young emperor in auspicious clothes murmured: "I didn't mean to lie to you, I didn't mean to lie to you, don't blame me in your heart..."

That year, he was sixteen and she was nineteen.

The young man who had been suppressed by powerful officials for many years finally removed the obstacles, revealing the courage of an emperor.

"I am the emperor, I am the emperor, I am the lord of the Qing Dynasty, and there is no one in this world who can restrain me..." The young man looked straight at her full of joy and said, "I am the emperor, the emperor with a golden mouth and eloquent words!" ..."

She showed a peaceful smile and quietly listened to his endless nagging.

What is he talking about, what is she listening to, I'm afraid they themselves are also confused...

That year, he was seventeen and she was twenty.

He already had the majesty of an emperor, and gradually faded away from the youthful innocence, making people feel that the power of heaven is unpredictable.However, she had already been accused of marriage, lost her fiancé, and became a widow.

"Your majesty, you are an emperor, your heart should be as broad as a grassland, that person is also your subject, you are an emperor..." Her voice was still so gentle, but bitterness was added to her face.

He looked up at the floating clouds in the sky with his neck up, without a trace of guilt on his face, and proudly said: "I know, I am the emperor. In the whole world, is it the king's land; on the shore of the land, is it the king's subject. As a subject , how...how can you miss...my..."

That year, he was nineteen and she was twenty-nine.

The last letter she sent said, "If you give birth to a boy, you will not become a prince; if you give birth to a daughter, you will not touch Mongolia." She also mentioned, "May all generations not be born in the emperor's family."

This was what he mentioned when he replied to the parting of the two. He once said that although he could not make her the queen, he could leave this thousand miles of land to their sons.

If she gave birth to a boy, it would be the prince of the Qing Dynasty, the future emperor.

In her letter, she specifically mentioned Queen Hesheli, "The queen is virtuous, and the son of Chenghu can be the heir"...

She went, and Cheng Hu died the next year. He recruited many concubines, and he and his empress were equally well-known, but he felt more and more lonely...

This farewell lasted for 45 years... The soul and dream department, but I can't even remember the face...

It seems to be engraved in the bone, and it seems to have been forgotten...

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In Wang's residence, relatives get together, but everyone can't relax.

Sixteen Fujin has sent people to send Baoyin back to her and sixteen elder brother's residence in the garden, and he himself came with his mother-in-law and concubine Wang to entertain Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Even though they are relatives, there is a difference in respect and inferiority, and with the fact that something was wrong in the Empress Dowager's palace just now, Mrs. Li felt a little uneasy and uneasy in her heart, and her expression was also a little reserved.

Seeing her mother-in-law's expression, Chu Yu thought about it for a while, and asked Wang Bin, "Ma'am, there was something wrong with looking at the queen mother just now, did you mistook your wife for someone else?"

Although I couldn't understand the Mongolian language that the Queen Mother asked Kangxi just now, the two Chinese sentences that the Queen Mother said before seemed to be mistaking Li as the daughter of the old man.

Wang Pin's mind was thumped, seeing Li's appearance which was somewhat similar to his own, and thinking of getting along with Kangxi in these years, the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became.

What Kangxi asked her the most was the interesting things before she entered the palace.

For example, learning how to do needlework from her cousin, and the embroidered mandarin ducks look like ducks, which made her very depressed.Fortunately, my cousin solved it and added willow branches to the back of her "duck", so that this needlework can be seen by others, so she smiled through tears.

Such things are indescribable, but Kangxi listened with gusto.

In the past, the Wang family was only regarded as the emperor's favorite, and there was only joy in his heart, but now it seems that there is another deep meaning in it.

Could it be that I have become a megaphone?

Although she and Li are cousins ​​in name, they are not related by blood.

Her aunt, Wang, was the original wife of the deceased old man of the Li family. When the two families got married, the old man of the Li family was not named Li, but Jiang. He was the young master of a prominent family in Changyi, Shandong.

Although the Wang family does not need the Jiang family, it is also a scholarly family, and this marriage can be regarded as a well-matched family.

The original rural slang, "Changyi County, half of the ginger, the world remains the same and the ginger is not chaotic", originally referred to the prominentness of the Jiang family in the local area, but unexpectedly it became a verse.

When the Eight Banners Army entered the customs and changed the world, the Jiang family lost countless people in order to defend Changyi.The old man of the Li family was only in his 20s at the time. He lost his father and brother, separated from his wife, and was plundered as his adopted son when the city was broken.

A few years later, when the old man of the Li family was selecting officials based on his talent and learning, he already had his first wife, Wen Shi, by his side.

When the husband and wife were reunited, the old man of the Li family felt very guilty towards the Wang family, and he took good care of the Wang family members throughout his life.

Wang Pin's father was proud to choose an official because of the support of the old man of the Li family.Later, after he died of illness and took office, his wife and daughter were taken by the old man of the Li family to take care of him.

On Li's side, she is the niece of the old man of the Li family in name, but she is actually the granddaughter of her adoptive father, not a blood relative.

Concubine Wang is four years older than Mrs. Li, and she grew up next to Mrs. Li's family.

The two not only have a good relationship, but also have a somewhat similar appearance and outline. When they appear hand in hand in front of people, they are often regarded as sisters.

Concubine Wang only regards them as sisters, and she treats Mrs. Li as her own sister in her heart.

Thinking of the sentence that the Empress Dowager asked in a hurry, Concubine Wang's chest was "thumping", "thumping", as if her heart was about to jump out of her throat.

Could it be that the "fifth aunt" mentioned by the queen mother is the eldest princess Gu Lun Shuhui who died of illness in the capital in 39 years of Kangxi?
That princess married two sons-in-law one after another, but her fate was very difficult, and she was a widow for half her life.

If the cousin's daughter is really that princess's daughter, then why hide her identity and raise her in the Li family...

When Mrs. Li got married back then, the concubine Wang had not yet entered the palace. The dazzling dowry, now that I think about it, there are some clues hidden...

After the change in the Empress Dowager's palace, not only the concubine Wang was shocked, but also Concubine De and Concubine Yi who could also understand Mongolian.

Both of them felt nahan in their hearts, but when they returned to their respective residences, their behaviors were different.

Concubine De was sitting on the kang holding the Buddhist beads, thinking for a while.Regarding the "fifth aunt" that the queen mother called, she did not think of Princess Gu Lun Shuhui.

Although Princess Gulun Shuhui has lived in the capital for many years and is the daughter of the Empress Dowager, her relationship with the Empress Dowager is mediocre.

When the Eight Banners entered the customs, the eldest princess married to Mongolia.The empress dowager married from the grassland to the capital after the capital was established in Beijing.Although the two are sister-in-law and sister-in-law, they didn't have much chance to communicate in their early years.

Besides, the eldest princess died of illness, and the burial in the cemetery was customized, so the queen mother would not ask where she was buried.

Although it has been many years, Concubine De still has a vague impression of some of the secrets she heard when she entered the palace at the beginning of the year.

According to rumors, the daughter of Prince Horqin, who was posthumously named "Concubine Hui" in the ninth year of Kangxi, entered the palace when the old emperor was ill.

She was only about ten years old at the time, and she was supposed to be a concubine for the old emperor, and she didn't want the old emperor to die.

The Borzigit family was brought up by the Empress Dowager, and she was a concubine prepared for the Long Live Lord.

But I don't know why, the status has never been determined, and later she was accused of marrying a subject, but she was a widow without marriage.

The Empress Dowager was unwilling to wrong this Ge Ge, and said that she wanted to adopt this Ge Ge as her adopted daughter, which was very courteous.

I don't want to, but this Gege is unlucky, and died of illness within two years...

Although it has been sealed, but there are also rumors that this Ge Ge is not dead.

Because there was a noble lady in the Empress Dowager's palace back then, someone saw that the two of them went out of the palace together.

If the original rumors were true, then the identity of Mrs. Li was about to be revealed. Concubine De was holding a rosary in her hand, and her emotions gradually calmed down.

At this moment, footsteps could be heard, and Concubine De's face showed some kindness.

Although she hasn't seen anyone yet, as a mother-in-law, she can't tell that this is her son.

"Er Niangan!" Fourteenth elder brother strode in, picked up his front skirt, and knelt down on one knee.

Concubine De got up hurriedly, stepped forward to help herself up, and said distressedly: "There are no outsiders, what are you doing all this trouble? Look at your sweaty head, are you here for the school?"

He kept asking questions, and wiped his son's sweat with a handkerchief in his hand.

Although the fourteenth elder brother is approaching his age and is about to marry a daughter-in-law and have a grandson, but because he is the youngest son, he still acted like a child, and said with a bit of coquettishness: "Er Niang, it's so hot, there are watermelons No? My son is very thirsty, and he can eat more than half of it now."

Concubine De smiled and stopped her son to sit down on the edge of the Kang, and said: "Look at this greedy look, are you afraid that Hongchun, Hongming and the others saw the joke?"

Elder Fourteen just laughed, Concubine De couldn't bear to refute his opinion after all, and ordered the maid to go down to prepare watermelon.

After a while, the palace maid brought a sliced ​​watermelon, and Elder Fourteen picked up a piece and brought it to Concubine De's mouth, saying: "Emiang, take a bite first, and my son will eat it later."

Concubine De waved her hand and said: "You eat by yourself, I only drank tea from the Queen Mother."

The fourteenth elder brother heard the words, and then brought the watermelon to his mouth. While eating, he asked casually: "Emiang came back from the Queen Mother? When my son came just now, I heard that Mrs. Li and Da Gege I went to pay my respects to the queen mother. How did you hear that Huang Ama has also passed?"

Concubine De with a half-smile, dismissed the maids and servants in the room, then stretched out her hand, poked Brother Fourteen on the forehead, and said: "You came out of my stomach, what are you thinking of? Don’t know yet? Don’t pretend to be a kid here, just ask whatever you want, don’t take these seven turns and eight turns!”

The fourteenth elder brother put down the watermelon rind, and said with a shy smile: "It's still Er Niang who knows about my son. If the son wants to ask, Er Niang is watching. Is Huang Ama really friendly to Cao's family, or is it just a passing scene?" ...Didn't it mean that the queen mother is annoyed, is there any movement over there..."

Concubine De saw Fourteenth Elder Brother's eyes turning wildly, looking like he was enjoying the show, she couldn't help but frowned, and said: "So what if the Lord Long Live is really kind to them, so what about the fake kindness? You are already old, not young." Son, this communication is only for those who are useful, and those who are not. How can you easily quarrel with others for those who don't want to? That kid from the Cao family is your niece and son-in-law. I heard that he is also a close friend of your brother-in-law. How close it should be..."

(End of this chapter)