The Concubine of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty

These thoughts just passed through Qinrou's mind. Kangxi said indifferently: "It's just a fish, just a taste. It's something to fill your stomach. If you like it, try it."

Kangxi picked up the fish fillets and put them into Qinrou's bowl without waiting for the servant behind him who was dedicated to serving the meal.

Qinrou smiled at Kangxi. The fish was tender, but it was a bit too much. But this is how the royal meal is, it is prepared early and kept warm until the emperor orders the meal to be served.

Otherwise, when the emperor ordered the meal to be served, how could the servants in the royal kitchen prepare the royal meal immediately?

Fish like this is best eaten in a pot! Qinrou sighed.

But the taste is not too bad!
"Your Majesty, do you want to try it too?" Qinrou asked first, and after confirming that she wanted it, she reciprocated her courtesy and gave Kangxi some.

"Try it!" Emperor Kangxi smiled, looking at her questioning gaze, he was also a little interested. Kangxi was not averse to eating fish.

Everything has been cleaned up in the dining room, so there are no thorns. Otherwise, all the servants in the kitchen would be bleeding like rivers.

Almost as soon as Kangxi finished speaking, Qinrou picked up the chopsticks and placed them on the fish fillet with milk. She also picked up a pair of chopsticks and landed them firmly on the blue and white royal bowl in front of Kangxi.

Kangxi, under Qinrou's gaze, tasted the fish fillet with milk, and after taking a bite of the fish, he tasted it. The fish fillets in the palace almost all taste the same. Emperor Kangxi was already used to it.

Kangxi looked at her and said with a smile: "Ask the servants to serve you and eat!"

Qinrou curved her lips and smiled. Nod.

It’s a taste, but it’s really just a taste. You still have to follow the rules. When dining with the emperor, there is a damn rule of "no more than three".

Qinrou and Kangxi each had three chopsticks for the fish fillet in milk sauce, and were taken away by the servants. Fortunately, Qinrou had already filled up three chopsticks before Kangxi dropped the third one.

The rest of the dishes are the same.

……

When Qinrou eats, she is used to eating eighty cents full. Unfortunately, the same was true for Emperor Kangxi.

After the meal was taken away, Qinrou went to read a book with Kangxi again. Kangxi's papers had been processed. What Kangxi read was the "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Soldiers" that Qinrou had glimpsed before and had an impression of!
Qinrou didn't ask, but she remembered that the eldest brother, the second elder brother, and the eldest elder brother and the third elder brother who died before she entered the palace also died because of illness.

I heard that the third elder brother's death was unjust, and he suddenly died because of a slight cold.

I had never seen Kangxi reading medical books before, but this time, after the second elder brother was gone, medical books began to appear in front of Kangxi's imperial case.

It cannot be said that Kangxi did not care about his children. At least Kangxi knew that the imperial doctors were incompetent, so he specialized in it.

Qinrou was very obedient and didn't ask because she could already guess the reason.

However, the principles of medical books are complicated. Can you understand them just by reading them? Qinrou thinks it's impossible, otherwise there wouldn't be any old Chinese doctors who passed down their medical skills to their families.

Qin Rou followed Kang Xi for a while and asked whether she could understand it or not, but she looked at it carefully. It would also be nice if I could master some more skills as a result. Seeing that she was taking it seriously, Kangxi said to her: "In life, just a mortal body will never get sick. Medical skills are life-saving things. Although there are imperial doctors in the palace, the mouth grows on other people's bodies. Even if you say it out loud, if you don't understand the principle, you will still be fooled. If you know a little about the principle and don't say much, the old guys in the Imperial Medical Office will not have the guts to fool you again. "

"A slave is cunning, and it is inevitable that he will deceive because his master does not understand." Kangxi no longer had a good impression of the group of imperial doctors in the Imperial Medical Office who were good at being officials but not very good at medicine.

One reason was that due to a serious illness when he was young, the imperial doctors were afraid and did not dare to prescribe heavy medicine. The emperor Kangxi almost died due to the delay of the imperial doctors.

Also, so far, one of the royal heirs in the palace has died. Although Kangxi knew in his heart that it may not all be the fault of the imperial doctors, Emperor Kangxi confirmed that some of the imperial doctors should indeed be dealt with.

Qinrou was silent and related the sentences above. Emperor Kangxi was so dissatisfied with the Imperial Medical Office! It's just that I guess it hasn't happened yet.

Qinrou doesn't want to protect anyone, mainly she can't protect anyone? She didn't know anyone among the group of imperial doctors. Who knew who was a human or a ghost under that respectful face? Even Kangxi dared to fool her, let alone her.

A slave bullies his master, and a dog relies on human power. It is an eternal truth.

The slave has no ambition anymore, no! Even eunuchs have the desire to play with power. Didn't the Ming Dynasty become one of the reasons for the destruction of the country because the emperor raised the eunuchs and the subsequent emperors were unable to suppress them?
"Medical skills are too difficult. When I was a child, I was interested in it. I read it for a while, but I didn't learn it." Qinrou looked at the "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" in Kangxi's hand, and then shook her head depressedly and compromisingly.

Mainly because her cheap father, Na Danzhu, really didn't have many medical books in his hands. The Manchus have always looked down upon Han medical books, even though they were the product of thousands of years of Chinese history.

Don’t you like gold and silver jewelry? Even if you have to collect books, aren't other books good? Medical skills are useless! Therefore, few people went back to collect.

In particular, medical books have always required knowledge and careful collection.

"Why did you think of reading medical books at that time?" Kangxi was a little surprised. As a lady, it was not strange for him to learn to be a head of a house and to be a director. Learning to ride horses and hunt was even more important because of his family background, but he was interested in medical books. It’s really rare!

Qinrou thought for a moment, and then recalled her state of mind at that time. At that time, she always felt that she could go back. She had no nostalgia here, and of course, there is none now.

Qinrou smiled and said, "Mainly at that time, there was so much time every day and there was nothing to do. I didn't like the embroidery women either. I didn't even take a look at them. I was thinking about medicine and pathology. If I got sick, I would do it myself. Able to diagnose myself.”

It was a beautiful thought, but it was a pity that I failed at the first step. There were only some ordinary medical books in the bookstore, and she had no place to ask for advice, so she threw them away. If not, then it won’t!
"Then!" Qinrou recalled for a moment, and then said: "On a whim, a few days later? I threw it away."

They are similar to Buddhist scriptures, which are incomprehensible heavenly books. Qinrou thinks highly of herself. Then, she wasn't interested anymore.

Mainly, why should you embarrass yourself?

Life was already making things difficult for her. If she couldn't do it, she just couldn't do it. She might as well be interested in poems and songs. The medical book she specially ordered her maid to buy was shelved after less than two hours of reading.

Until now.

It's also a child's temperament, no matter what, sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad.

Kangxi listened to her wantonness with pity in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)