The Concubine of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 296 Believe in Buddha
"The Emperor and the Empress do not mind." No one knew what Concubine Niuhulu understood from this short sentence, and others had no way of knowing either. Concubine Niuhulu was following the rules and etiquette.

The emperor and the empress are one, and Concubine Nianhulu always remembers this fact.

What she asked for was not the emperor's true love. As a woman in the harem, it was enough for her to live comfortably and comfortably with the emperor's slight guilt and the emperor's favor. She could also use this to make her political enemies uncomfortable and upset, how great!

"You have always been the most thoughtful." The Queen smiled and said thoughtfully. If the Queen's initial hostility towards Concubine Niuhulu was out of fear, then the deep-rooted and growing hostility that followed was definitely inseparable from the nurturing of Concubine Niuhulu's every word and action.

Concubine Niuhulu has always been that annoying, and has never changed! She always makes her, the queen, feel uncomfortable.

The Queen's Qi training skills were extraordinary, and now she would not change her expression when she saw him. Instead, she could smile and praise him.

The magnanimity and kindness of the empress and the legitimate wife cannot be seen on the surface, no matter who she is, in front of others or behind their backs.

After Concubine Niuhulu's basin-adding ceremony, it was the turn of the rest of the concubines in the harem.

Concubine Li added a hairpin, a Ruyi hairpin with twisted silk. It was not a very good thing, just an ordinary one. But it was not easy for Concubine Li to surprise others!

After such a short while, Ma Jia, the concubine, smiled and added a pair of bracelets, with lotus leaves and lotus branches as the bottom, and words such as "seek blessings and obtain blessings" and "do everything as you wish" engraved on them. In Buddhism, lotus is the purest thing and a symbol of good fortune...

She knew the importance of things. In such an occasion, not everyone could be so careless as to show off their attitude. In the former imperial harem of the Qing Dynasty, the sharpest and most useful eyes and ears were all here.

Good or bad, they may not judge on their faces, and may even greet you with a smile, but when they turn around, the slightest clue can become their breaking point or weakness.

The gift from Concubine Dong was also an ordinary gift, just a blessing bag, which was locked from the outside, meaning to lock the blessing;

Putting some sunflower seeds in it, is it to pray for growth and to shine like the sun? Qinrou doesn't quite understand the meaning of this.

But no one says that giving a gift must have a meaning!
...The concubines' basin-adding ceremonies always have such good meanings. No matter how things change, they all choose the most common and least likely items.

The gifts of basins for the concubines arrived first, and then came those for the wives of the royal family's relatives and nobles. They didn't seem to have chosen carefully, just the cultural relics they played with, the jade pendants on their waists, the pearl hairpins on their heads, and the rings and bracelets on their hands.

The wife of Prince Jian and the dowager consort of Prince Ping are both elders in the royal family. A wife is honored by her husband, and a mother is honored by her son. The two elders may be of lower status, but they are already in their twilight years.

Prince Jian's wife took off a jade ring from her hand that she had always worn. This was an old item that she had kept for many years and she couldn't bear to give it away easily. Today she took it out as a gift for the baby's birth.

Qin Rou reasonably suspected that the reason why so many people did not circulate the precious things they carried with them and loved so much at this time was that they wanted to appreciate in value at this time and give them away as rewards at a great value.

The Princess Dowager of Prince Ping took off the bracelet on her wrist. It was of no particular origin, just made of jade. It had been with the Princess Dowager of Prince Ping for too long, so she took it off to perform the ceremony of adding jade to the basin.

The gift from Lady Galabu was a lively golden rat. Lady Galabu smiled and put the golden rat into the golden basin filled with water, saying, "The rat of Ren Zi year has the protection of the Rat God at night. From now on, the fifth prince will be safe and sound, inherit the aspirations of his ancestors, and grow up to be a brave and majestic prince."

This is a blessing from the aunt's family. The queen's maternal family is the legitimate family of the crown prince.

The blessing from the maternal family was sincere and could reach the ears of the gods. Therefore, the first one to be born was from Kalabu's wife. With so many ministers in the previous dynasty, the Hesheli clan was not able to suppress all the prefectures and clans.

The first wife of Niuhulu picked out a jade ruyi. She maintained her usual royal bearing and pride and said, "This is a jade Guanyin that I specially asked a lama to consecrate. Guanyin Bodhisattva is kind and benevolent, and helps the world. I happened to have some good jade, so I asked a lama to consecrate it and brought this jade Guanyin back. It is just right for the fifth prince as a gift for his newborn."

It was no longer a secret in everyone's eyes and hearts that Niuhulu's wife, the Heshuo Gege of the Ying Prince's Mansion in the Qing Dynasty, believed in Buddhism.

The root cause was that Heshuo Gege had been ill for a long time after she fell ill when she was young. She had seen many doctors and taken many bitter medicines, but she still did not get better.

Instead, the situation became worse. In order to save the situation, the Empress Dowager asked the Grand Lama for a jade ruyi to protect peace and safety, and gave it to Heshuo Gege.

It was a coincidence that ever since the jade ruyi was placed next to Heshuo Gege's pillow, it seemed to have come up with a spirit, and day by day, it absorbed the illness from Heshuo Gege's body.

It can only be said that it couldn't be more coincidental that Heshuo Gege became healthy. And from then on, her health became stronger and stronger.

Perhaps it was too painful to be sick and wait for death. After Heshuo Gege recovered, she changed from an atheist to a devout Buddhist. And the jade ruyi that absorbed her illness was carefully kept by Heshuo Gege, who placed it beside her pillow every day and slept with it.

Therefore, after this incident, everyone knew that Niuhulu's first wife gradually began to believe in Buddhism.

However, Heshuo Gege was also very arrogant. She was Huangjia's Heshuo Gege, with a noble status. She was not a lowly person, so everyone was lucky enough to get the spiritual objects she invited.

You mortals are not worthy!

Niuhulu's first wife would rather give some precious jewelry or other valuable books than ask for spiritual objects blessed by Buddha to bring to others.

They don't deserve it!

Therefore, the gift from Niuhulu's wife could not be said to be extremely heavy, but it could not be said to be light either.

Especially since Heshuo Gege was so proud and arrogant, she would not give such a big gift to someone unless he was someone she really liked.

I don’t know how the Fifth Prince caught her eye.

"I believe that it will surely protect the Fifth Prince from all his illness and bad luck, and keep him safe and worry-free, and in good health." said Niu Hulu's first wife.

Heshuo Gege felt that Kangxi was not good in every aspect, especially in terms of his offspring. Few of the royal heirs were healthy. From the ninth year of Kangxi's reign to now, almost all the royal heirs in the palace had died.

Especially this year, the second prince born by the queen also died. Although Heshuo Gege was very happy, it did not prevent her from feeling that the heirs in the harem were extremely unlucky.

We need to dispel the bad luck and the disease.