Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

"The emperor is here?" Lan Qi was very surprised. Looking at the time at this moment, it was almost dark. It should be the time for dinner in the Qianqing Palace. She didn't hear that she was coming, so she rushed out at dusk. Hurrying back, he asked, "Does the emperor know where I'm going?"

The little eunuch hurriedly said that he understood, but the emperor didn't send someone to urge Concubine De to return to Yonghe Palace. Eunuch Li sent someone to invite him privately, probably because he was afraid of waiting too long, and said that he had sent the food to Yonghe Palace used here.

When Lan Qi entered the door, she was already setting the meal, and she heard the baby's babbling. Yin Zuo also came back from the Compassionate Ning Palace, but seeing Xiangyue came up to her and handed her a towel to wipe her hands, she led Lan Qi to Liu'a. Go to brother's house, and said happily: "Long live Lord is playing with sixth elder brother. Long live Lord sent someone to the Compassion Ning Palace to bring sixth elder brother back."

Lan Qi was in a good mood, and when she entered the door, she saw Xuan Ye standing by the cradle, teasing her son with her hands opening and closing, guessing that he didn't dare to hold the child, and every time she wanted to be hugged by him, she was so nervous that she was at a loss, she looked clumsy and awkward. Cute, in a way that outsiders can't easily see.

"Are you back?" Xuan Ye heard the movement and saw Lan Qi's happy smile when she came in. He was sure, and before she could salute, he stretched out his hand, "Come and see your son."

Lan Qi simply stopped saluting, followed by Xuan Ye who hugged her waist, pointed at Yin Zuo and said, "Look, he looks more and more like you, both eyes and nose."

The little guy in the cradle babbled, seemed to recognize Lan Qi as her mother, and grinned as soon as she saw her, the pink flesh on her face was squeezed into a pile, and she couldn't tell who her eyes and nose looked like, Xuan Ye I couldn't help stretching out my hand and pinching my son's cheek to scold him: "Who told you to laugh, let your mother-in-law take a closer look."

After pinching, the baby immediately cried, Xuan Ye was at a loss what to do, Lan Qi quickly asked the wet nurse to coax her, pulled the emperor out and said: "The emperor will bully the weak, his concubines, and the sixth elder brother."

The dinner was already set, Lan Qi was going to change clothes and wash her hands, Xuan Ye insisted on following her, the two played around for a while, neither of them mentioned anything else, when they were about to come out for dinner, Eunuch Li said outside: "Your Majesty, The prince has arrived."

Lan Qi was a little surprised at this, but Xuan Ye said: "The prince has not had a good appetite these days. I saw that he didn't eat anything at the Mid-Autumn Festival yesterday. The imperial doctor said that the spleen and stomach are weak due to greed for cold in summer. I think he is probably alone. Eating is too boring, and I usually feel bored so I don't bother to move my chopsticks, it's rare that I'm free today, so I invite him to have dinner together, and I'll go back after dinner, don't mind."

Lan Qi knew that the concubines in the palace were unwilling to take care of the prince, saying that she ordered the two empresses to die, because both the empress dowager and the emperor loved the prince. Although such words were only dared to spread in private, the emperor had obviously heard of it One or two, the few words just now were because she was afraid that she would be taboo. Although Lan Qi didn't care about such rumors in her heart, she felt more sorry for Xuan Ye's helplessness.

The prince came in quickly, saluted his father and concubine De, Xuan Ye asked him if he had not eaten yet, and asked him to sit beside him, Lan Qi personally served him vegetables, thinking that she and Xuan Ye were gossiping over dinner At this moment, it is their father and son who talk a lot, and she arranges the meals for the two of them, and occasionally talks a few words together, which is quite enjoyable.

But the prince’s appetite is really bad, and he has little interest in coaxing him to eat in different ways, but the duck porridge made by Huanchun is very appetizing. Asking him to add more, Lan Qi coaxed him: "Tomorrow morning, let Huan Chun make it and send it to Yuqing Palace to make breakfast for the prince, okay?"

The prince nodded happily, put in another small plate of vegetables, put down his chopsticks and said he was full, stood up and asked his father, "I want to go and see Brother Six, okay?"

Xuan Ye readily agreed, let the mother take him away, and added a bowl of porridge himself, Huan Chun said with a smile: "I saw that the mother is not in good spirits today, and I am afraid that I will not have a good appetite, so I made porridge to prepare for dinner at night." Yes, I didn't expect both the emperor and the crown prince to like it."

Lan Qi pushed her with a smile and said, "You want the emperor to reward you, right?"

"Of course I want to reward it. It's rare to appease the prince, and the imperial dining room is not dedicated." After eating the porridge himself, Xuan Ye felt his spleen and stomach were mild and comfortable, so he summoned Eunuch Li and asked him to reward the ring spring silver ingot.

The two of them ate a meal to their heart's content. Lan Qi herself was in a trance and didn't eat much for the whole day. Now after a bowl of porridge, her strength recovered a lot, her face gradually became rosy, and her smile became more and more charming. Xuan Ye looked at it quietly After a while, he held hands and got up and said, "Go out and take a walk."

The two walked along the promenade under the eaves, and there were still many rooms in the Yonghe Palace that were closed, Xuan Ye suddenly said: "In the next ten or twenty years, there will be more and more concubines in the palace, and I probably won't let you Living alone, when the moment is the purest, I have to cherish it."

Lan Qi asked with a smile: "Why is it that the emperor cherishes it so much?" But she was glanced at ambiguously. She turned her face away and dared not ask again, but she heard Xuan Ye asking her: "I didn't feel well last night and today, why is it so late in the evening?" Still going out, did you go to see Jue Chan?"

After all, this matter was brought up, Lan Qi responded softly, and the emperor continued to ask: "Are you feeling uncomfortable, because I treated her well before, and you are jealous?"

"If the concubine says she's jealous, will the emperor coax the concubine?" She let go of the burden in her heart, and of course she didn't care to bring it up again, thinking about joking, "I'm afraid the people outside are waiting to see the concubine's joke, what is the concubine doing?" Want to be ridiculed? That’s why I went to see Jue Chan often, congratulate her on her pregnancy, and wish her a safe birth to the emperor’s little elder brother.”

"Really?" Xuan Ye asked, seemingly smiling and gentle, but there seemed to be another deep meaning in his eyes.

But the light was dim, and Lan Qi didn't look into Xuan Ye's eyes carefully, and replied without thinking: "Of course it's true, does the emperor think that my concubine is so stingy? Compared to being jealous of pantothenic acid, it would be more exasperating to be judged by others behind the scenes, so even if you pretend to be generous, you must be worthy of the dignity of the master of Yonghe Palace."

Xuan Ye laughed out loud, Lan Qi anxiously asked: "What did the concubine say wrong?" But someone hugged her waist tightly, and in the darkness of the night, she leaned against her cheek and said, "Ask me if I will?" Coax you, but which thing, didn't I come to coax you first?"

Lan Qi smiled and pushed Xuan Ye away, and said proudly: "It's a pity, this time the concubine doesn't want the emperor to coax me, and the concubine is not jealous, let alone unhappy."

Xuan Ye immediately let go, and walked forward, Lan Qi was stunned and hurried to catch up, pestering her like a fool, Xuan Ye also played with her, both of them were in a good mood.

From Xuan Ye's point of view, no matter what entanglement Lan Qi was thinking about, if she figured it out or let go, she didn't need to pursue it. As for Nalan Rongruo and Jue Chan, there was no reason to pursue the past, but in the past Afterwards, he has a sense of proportion.

The two walked hand in hand, and were hesitating whether to leave the Yonghe Palace, when they suddenly heard Yinzuo's loud cry, they remembered that the prince was still there, and turned back together to see that the wet nurse was hugging Yinzuo, and the prince was standing with his hands behind his back. On the side, he still holds Yin Zuo's toy in his hand.

"Yinfeng, what's the matter?" Xuan Ye asked, the prince was startled when he heard the sound, turned around and saw his father coming, and immediately ran over to explain, "I want to play with my brother, but he suddenly cried, I didn't mean to cry his."

Seeing that the prince was so nervous, Lan Qi felt distressed, and squatted down to coax him: "Brother Six is ​​teething, he cries several times a day, of course it wasn't the prince who made him cry."

The prince listened suspiciously, but asked her: "Does the fourth elder brother also have teeth?" Lan Qi was puzzled, but the prince continued, "Last night, the younger brothers and sisters were playing together, and the fourth elder brother always cried for no reason, and the imperial concubine scolded her." Elder Sister and Duanjing." He stretched out his hand towards Lan Qi, raised his sleeve to reveal a long scar, "Yinzhen scratched my arm."

Lan Qi was shocked, she looked at Xuan Ye in astonishment, Xuan Ye didn't even know, the people who were serving her were so frightened that they knelt down and pleaded guilty, saying that the prince would not let them report, Lan Qi saw that the wound had scabbed, it seemed that it was not true It was very deep, but I still took the prince to take a closer look under the lamp. Only the larger part of the wound was slightly red and swollen, and I was relieved that there were no other problems.

The prince said solemnly: "Yinzhen always grabs things, and he also wants Yinzhi's things. I don't let him take them, so he grabs my arm, but I don't blame him, because he is a younger brother."

Lan Qi's heart trembled when she heard this, she didn't know if this child knew who the fourth elder brother was, but he didn't let the nuns tell it, but now he said it, if Yin Zuo didn't have this burst of crying, Will he say it again?What is going on in this little kid's head?

And Xuan Ye didn't really pursue the faults of the nuns and maids, he only told them to report everything in the future, and then came to look at the prince's wound, and asked him a little seriously: "What happened to Yinzhen who scratched you? Does the imperial concubine know?"

Yinfeng shook his head: "I don't cry like my younger brother. The people around me don't know about it. The nanny only saw it when I took a bath. Huang Ama, don't blame Yinzhen. I think he As long as you change your temper, you won't be so nonsense in the future."

The two adults looked at each other, then Xuan Ye reached out and touched his head, and said gently: "When you grow up, when Yinzhen Yinzuo grows up, the elder brother can teach the younger brother, Huang Ama believes that you will be able to teach the younger brother." He's a good brother."

Yinfeng nodded seriously: "My son will be a good brother, please rest assured Huang Ama."

Xuan Ye smiled unnaturally, but still praised the prince, and said that it was getting late and asked someone to send him back to Yuqing Palace. Because he was worried, he asked Li Eunuch and others to accompany him, and stood in front of the door and kept looking at the prince. The figure disappeared into the night before turning around and seeing Lan Qi hugging Yin Zuo, making him laugh.

"What did the prince do to Brother Six just now?"

When Lan Qi heard this sentence suddenly, she was startled, she turned around and saw Xuan Ye walked to the wet nurse, the wet nurse was also stunned, Lan Qi followed, and gently repeated the meaning of the emperor, and the wet nurse tremblingly said: "Go back to the emperor In other words, the prince didn’t do anything, the prince has been talking to the sixth elder brother, let the sixth elder brother grow up quickly, etc. Later, the slaves brought toys and asked the prince to tease the sixth elder brother. The sixth elder brother probably thought it was his own thing. It was taken away by someone, that's why I cried."

Lan Qi handed the child to the wet nurse, and helped Xuan Ye out, avoiding people asking: "What's wrong with you?"

Xuanye shook his head silently, and after entering the room, he sat cross-legged on the kang and said he wanted to drink tea. Lan Qi knew that he wanted to be alone for a while, so she went to the tea room to make tea herself, and did not let Huanchun and the others go. disturb.

A urn of Gulian spring water was opened in the tea room, and when he was about to boil the water, he saw Yin Zuo's wet nurse coming, saying that he was coming to get water for Sixth Brother, but she came to Lan Qi's side inadvertently, Lan Qi understood, and after putting the spring water on the stove, she went to the door with her, avoiding other people, and heard the wet nurse say: "Your Majesty, when the emperor asked me a few words, the servant did not tell the truth."

Lan Qi frowned, the mother was of course nervous, she asked softly: "Did the prince bully Yinzuo?"

"No, no." But the wet nurse repeatedly denied, "The servant did not dare to say a few words that the prince said to the sixth elder brother, and the prince actually said, 'When you grow up, Yinzuo, you can't be like the elder brother. I like him, he is too naughty, and your fourth brother is not good either, he is so domineering at such a young age, Yinzuo, you have to be like me...'" The wet nurse whispered more and more, holding her heart and said at the door, "I really don't dare Say these few words to the emperor, empress, did the servants do something wrong?"

Lan Qi's heart was heavy, she reassured the wet nurse that she was fine, told her that she was right, and asked her to go back, and continued to boil the water by herself, and when the tea was finished, she brought it back, and when she went out, she saw Eunuch Li came back, and he went into the inner hall Reply to the emperor, but Lan Qi did not see him come out when she walked to the door, guessing what he was talking about, after a long time, Eunuch Li came out again, saw De concubine waiting at the door, and apologized: "Your Majesty, have you been waiting for a long time?"

Lan Qi said indifferently: "It's important for you to talk to the emperor, is there anything else?"

"It's all right, the slave just replied a few words about the prince." Eunuch Li smiled awkwardly, and immediately asked Lan Qi to come in. She served the tea by herself and didn't let others follow her. When she came in, she saw Xuan Ye No longer sitting on the kang, but standing in front of the bookshelf and flipping through things casually, looking back and seeing her coming, he said casually: "I want to drink ginseng tea, but I haven't had time to tell you."

Lan Qi smiled and said, "It's ginseng tea."

The simple heart-to-heart made Xuanye smile a little more, so he came and sat down to drink tea together. The warm tea filled his body with refreshing ginseng flavor. Qi, pulled her into his arms and leaned against her. Lan Qi heard the beating heartbeat in his chest, and just about to speak, Xuan Ye said first: "Yinti is naughty, but his temper is not bad. Given time to guide, he can always calm down." In terms of homework, but I always don't understand what Yinfeng is thinking. This child looks so old, and sometimes I feel creepy when I look at him. I hope that the boss can be stable and have the demeanor of a brother. Why do I see The prince is like this, but he feels bad? Lan Qi, am I thinking too much?"

Lan Qi recalled what the wet nurse had said, and she didn't doubt whether the wet nurse was lying, because the prince had said the same thing to her himself. Outside the gate of Qianqing Palace that day, the prince said solemnly that he would not bear his father's anger like the elder brother, And every time she saw the prince, she also felt uncomfortable.

But there are some things she can't say, no matter how much Xuan Ye likes her, he is still the emperor after all, so she sat up and looked at him, smiled and stretched out her hands to rub his temples to stretch her nerves, and said slowly, "The children are still young, Your Majesty It is because the expectations are too high that I feel uncomfortable looking at the children. If you are really doubtful, the Empress Dowager understands it most clearly. A concubine is not as good as you when it comes to teaching children."

Xuan Ye hummed, and explained to her that they would go to see the imperial grandmother together tomorrow, and were about to say something else to divert their minds, when there were hurried footsteps outside, Mr. Li said in a panic: "Long live, the news from my elder brother said that Big brother ate something unclean, it seems to be poisoned."