The Concubine of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 204 It hurts and feels cold
Concubine Li smiled. She had not spent many years in vain. She had already understood and figured out the truth that should be seen and understood.

Not speaking does not mean rejection, as long as you don't turn around and leave, it is acquiescence.

This is especially applicable in this situation.

It is also particularly applicable to Nala's Qinrou.

Concubine Li sat there, recalling the past. I don’t know whether to tell others or myself.

"It has been eleven years since I entered the palace." Concubine Li just finished her words and smiled for a long time. She felt that she had made a mistake in what she said, so she corrected herself.

"It's eleven years and two months short." Concubine Li corrected her and continued: "I entered the palace in April of the 18th year of Shunzhi, and I started serving the emperor in the fourth year. Today, All in all, it’s been almost eleven years.”

In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi's reign, the imperial mausoleum collapsed. The third son of the emperor, the emperor at that time, ascended the throne at the age of eight. In order to stabilize the court, the empress dowager, who was gray-haired, could not bear to shed tears. After three months, she personally took charge and selected four people of the right age to treat her. In the Nian Palace.

In the future, when the emperor grows up, she will act as a concubine. One is to remind the ministers that although the emperor is still young, he is only four years away from adulthood. There should be concubines staying in the palace to congratulate the emperor on his adulthood.

Secondly, it is also because the Manchus have already had precedents. In order to get good luck and pray for the son of the family to reach adulthood safely, he would first select a concubine for the son to serve and support him in the house to show that the son of the family has made a commitment. Avoid disasters and disasters.

Thirdly, the late emperor was newly mourned and the young emperor was young. Although the Empress Dowager is assisting, the four auxiliary ministers in the court control the power. People's hearts are not ancient, and it is complicated and unpredictable. It is inevitable that there will be shortcomings when the Empress Dowager sits in the palace. Therefore, the Empress Dowager urgently needed peace of mind for the world, and she and the young emperor selected concubines for the nian palace. This was also a ceremony to declare to the courtiers: Although the previous emperor died, a new emperor has been established! Peace of mind, all ministers!

To a certain extent, this was Kangxi's first selection of concubines after he ascended the throne as emperor. However, because the late emperor was newly deceased, the Empress Dowager simplified many steps and selected the women to be drafted.

But there are only four people, and the selection is also very particular. They come from the women of the Eight Banners of Manchu, Mongolia and Han Dynasties.

Mongolian military flag, Manchu-Mongolian marriage is an old custom, the Empress Dowager thought again and again, and took the daughter of the third-class Jiborjigit Ayuxi, Toya, into the palace.

Toya, Mongolian "brilliance". Others don't know what the Empress Dowager was thinking at that time, but Concubine Xian Hui's name seems to be somewhat in line with her life.

The brilliance, even if it has passed away, still weighs on everyone, so that no one can breathe, and only the remaining ones can barely survive! There is no need to act rashly, and there is no way to act rashly.

In the Han Army Banner, Concubine Li was selected to enter the palace. Since the time of the late emperor, the status of the Han Army Banner has gradually increased. The courtiers of the Han Army Banner have gradually become a force in the court. Even though they are suppressed, they are still there. A small force that is indomitable and upward in the cracks.

In the late emperor's harem, Concubine Ke had no children, but she was able to be among the noble concubines of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia. The concubine position she was able to occupy was an excellent weathervane.

Concubine Li's family background is not low, and having her in the palace is enough to make the Li family, who are favored by the imperial family, even more loyal to the royal family and the emperor.

In the Manchu Army Flag, the Empress Dowager did not know what considerations she had. In short, due to the overt and covert struggles of all parties, Concubine Ma Jia was in the palace for the rest of her life, and Concubine Ma Jia's family background was not revealed. From that time on, the Empress Dowager may have realized that the next generation of queens must come out of the Manchu Army. The four auxiliary ministers were all ministers who had connections with the royal family, but not very much.

Among the four auxiliary ministers, no matter which one they choose to enter the palace to stay in the new year, it is inevitable that there will be suspicions of favoritism and dislike. It is also not conducive to the mutual restraint of the four auxiliary ministers. Once the balance is broken, it will be unsightly. Although this balance was not maintained later.

So the Empress Dowager simply chose no one and selected two Gege from Manjunqi from the list of women waiting for draft to enter the palace. Ma Jia's concubine is among them, and there is another concubine, the Alai family.

What Concubine Ma Jia and Concubine Alai have in common is that Ma Jia and Alai are both ancient surnames in the Manchu Army.

However, Concubine Ma Jia and Concubine A Lai were both daughters of a side branch. Although there were people in the family who entered the court as officials, their official positions were not high. However, the surname was old and a common surname. After all, they also had this surname, so they had The two of them entered the palace.

It's just that Concubine A'lai had bad luck, and she died within a few years of entering the palace. But I didn't see the overt and secret fighting in the harem.

For these reasons, Qinrou entered the palace late and the news was not good, so she did not know the inside story. Even though Concubine Li had experienced it herself, she still had only a partial understanding of it, but she only knew one thing: her ability to enter the palace definitely took advantage of her surname. It should be said that all future concubines in the palace have taken advantage of their family or surname.

Concubine Li knew this: they were all selected by the Empress Dowager personally and carefully when they entered the palace.

When mentioning the past, Concubine Li inevitably thought of the people in the past, and a trace of regret flashed in her eyes, but she put it away.

Qinrou was silent. She didn't know why, but Concubine Li suddenly talked about this.

The look of sadness on Concubine Li's face dissipated, she smiled again, and continued: "I have been favored for seven years. The royal family's heirs are not going well, but Concubine Nala probably doesn't know about it, but I have never been happy."

Thinking about it, there will always be misfortunes. Concubine Li recalled the past, and those bad things followed her like a shadow, which she could not get rid of or break away from.

Concubine Li continued, reminding Qinrou of that sad and hurtful past, "I have always had the emperor's favor. In these years, there are few people who can talk openly and openly to my ears... But in the past When I was young, many people kept reminding me openly that I was a hen that couldn’t lay eggs and was a worthless waste!”

Of course, the people who said this have fallen out of favor or are no longer in favor, but she is still favored.

Qinrou continued to listen, Concubine Li raised her head, and then continued:
"Over the years, other people in the palace, even if they didn't mention it openly, secretly, laughed at me, laughing at me as a worthless waste. So many times, every time a concubine was pregnant, or mentioned that she was pregnant and had a child. , the way they looked at me, you don’t know how hurtful it is!”

Concubine Li said, talking about her past and her heartbreak: "With so much rain and dew, even if it is a dead land, it should be watered with a bud. But here, I don't see anything. "

Qinrou has always known how cold people's hearts can be, especially when they say bad words to each other. It is clearly made of water, and has the same structure as water, but it is completely different, two forms of matter, and it is sharp ice.

When it penetrates the body, it is painful and cold!