The Concubine of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty

Although she didn't care, she couldn't help but be affected. Concubine Li was pregnant with the heir to the throne, and now she didn't know whether it was okay or not. You couldn't just celebrate in your own palace! Even if you were just happy, you couldn't do that. Walls have ears, and the palace is full of eyes. Things were bound to happen at noon. If the heir to Concubine Li's belly was in trouble, they would have a mouth to report it to the Queen and the Grand Empress Dowager. Even if they just summoned her to question her, it would be enough to make her lose a layer of skin.

This is because she is favored! If the concubines in the harem are not favored, they will be bullied at will; if the concubines in the harem are favored, they will gather everyone's resentment and harm you. This may be a statement that she herself has not realized.

Therefore, everyone consciously stopped laughing and talking. Fushun and others kept trying to find out about Concubine Li. To be more precise, they were concerned about the heir in her belly. In the eyes of everyone in the harem, Concubine Li was not worth looking at. If she was not pregnant with the dragon seed, she would have died today without a sound and was not worth everyone's concern.

Qin Rou read the book, but the words on the book could not penetrate her eyes or enter her mind. Sometimes she could not help but feel uncomfortable and cruel. Maybe it was because of sympathy for one's own kind! In this world, people are divided into different classes, so their lives are not the same. People in the lower class accept being beaten and killed, but in the end they cannot get justice, and they have to thank their master for his mercy in not punishing their entire clan.

People are not people! Things are not necessarily things.

Qinrou's head hurt from thinking about it. The Queen had not summoned her to visit Concubine Li. Although Qinrou did not go, she did not miss the whole thing. Fushun and the others found out about it. It should be said that it was not really finding out. The stupid things Concubine Li did were almost known to everyone in the palace, at least most of the concubines in the palace knew about it, but they just kept it to themselves.

"So it all started when little Concubine Li wanted to eat crabs, but crabs are cold in nature, and the maids tried to dissuade her. Little Concubine Li then thought the maids had bad intentions and were deliberately trying to control her, so she got angry and the fetus became unstable?" Qin Rou hesitated for a moment, wondering if she had heard wrongly, and such a thing could happen.

"Yes!" Fushun replied. He was a little skeptical at first, but then he inquired about it and found that the truth was indeed so. Fushun added, "I have also inquired about it. Concubine Li once asked the imperial kitchen for crabs, turtles, shepherd's purse, hawthorn, longan and other things. The maids around her have been persuading her for a long time. Today, Concubine Li mentioned that she wanted to eat drunken shrimps, and the servants dissuaded her. Concubine Li said she wanted to eat crabs, and the servants still dissuaded her. Concubine Li got angry and said that we deliberately harmed the prince in her belly. We were instructed by someone with ulterior motives. One slave serves two masters, and they have bad intentions. They are afraid that she will give birth to a prince, so they deliberately don't let her eat so that she won't give birth to the prince in her belly."

Qin Rou: “…”

This thoughtful person is very spiritual.

Are all the concubines in the palace evil people who harm her?

After a moment of silence, Qin Rou said, "I remember that crabs are cold in nature, and hawthorn can also cause miscarriage, not to mention turtles and longans. Didn't the imperial physician and the many palace maids, eunuchs, and nannies around her explain this to her?"

Little Concubine Li is undoubtedly a fool! But she should also know that the heir in her belly is the foundation of her life, and she should know what it means to put the heir first. It is related to the glory of her second half of life, she can't just not care!
Fu Shun was even more silent, but since Concubine Li had asked, he had no choice but to answer, so he could only say awkwardly: "The imperial doctors and the nurses have carefully told Concubine Li that eating too much of these foods will not only do no good, but will harm the fetus."

Fu Shun also didn't believe that little Concubine Li would be so stupid, but the facts were beyond his expectations. It could only be said that little Concubine Li didn't trust the maids and palace servants, and she felt from the bottom of her heart that the maids and palace servants were fooling her. "Little Concubine Li just wanted to eat. I heard that pregnant women have all kinds of tastes. Little Concubine Li might be one of them? Little Concubine Li ate crabs the day before yesterday, and asked for tuna yesterday. Today she said she wanted to eat drunken shrimps and crabs. Even if little Concubine Li asked for them, the kitchen would not and dared not give them." There was no other reason. These would harm the fetus. How could the kitchen dare to give them? What if something happened to the royal heir in little Concubine Li's belly? Would they still have their heads? If the kitchen knew that such things were obviously harmful to the fetus and did them anyway, they would only be asking for death.

Qin Rou was silent. In that case, there was really nothing wrong with it.

"But Concubine Li wanted to eat these, and the kitchen didn't dare to give them to her. So Concubine Li scolded the kitchen and the servants for fooling her because she was out of favor, for currying favor with the powerful, and for thinking that the prince in her belly was not noble. She also said..." Fushun paused, and Qinrou looked over. Fushun continued, "She said that we in Zhenshunzhai have everything she wants, but she has nothing!"

Qin Rou raised her head suddenly, and it was obvious that she was also very surprised that she had something to do with this.

"What do you mean?" Qin Rou was a little surprised as to how she was involved and was curious about the reason.

Fu Shun smiled awkwardly, "Before, the concubine wanted to eat mutton, and Concubine Li also wanted to eat mutton, but there was no mutton shoulder, so the kitchen presented mutton tenderloin; and the materials presented by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the emperor gave the concubine mink fur, and the materials presented by the Ministry of Internal Affairs included patched satin and gold-lettered satin. There was only one piece of gold-lettered satin left, so the concubine chose it first; and the flowers presented by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, some things awarded by the emperor, only the concubine had them and she didn't..."

And then, nothing happened, and the final result was like this.

Qin Rou was silent. It was true, but did she have to give things up? How could it be possible? Some things, once given up, could never be taken back. One step back, one step back, until there was nothing left, rotting in the abyss, there would be no other outcome.

When living in this world, who doesn’t take care of himself first?
"How is Concubine Li?" Qin Rou hadn't figured out what to do yet. Should she pretend that nothing had happened? That would be a bad move; retreating to the end would also be impossible. If she showed such an embarrassing attitude, the opponents in the harem would swarm over her and tear her apart alive. Not to mention that she was not so selfless and selfless before she got pregnant; and now that she was not alone, Qin Rou could only first determine how Concubine Li was doing!
I knew that life wouldn't be so easy. Just after a brief period of peace, troubles arise.

"The imperial physician prescribed some medicine and boiled some to preserve the pregnancy, and Concubine Li has already drunk it. The imperial physician said that she must take good care of herself! The servants around Concubine Li did not serve her well, so the empress punished them with twenty strokes of the cane. Concubine Li felt that the servants were not serving her attentively, so she didn't want them to serve her anymore. But Concubine Li is pregnant with the royal heir, so the empress made the decision and replaced Concubine Li with a group of attentive servants." Fu Shun thought that they had suffered an unprovoked disaster, but it might not be a bad fortune for them to be able to escape from Concubine Li with these twenty strokes of the cane.

Qin Rou: “…”

Qin Rou was speechless again. This was a big drama. No one else needed to join in. Little Li Shufei sang the whole thing by herself. (End of this chapter)