Biography of Concubine De of Emperor Kangxi

Seeing his son coming in, Xuanye didn't think much about it, but he was a little surprised when he heard that it was time to eat, and muttered, "It's so late?" He ordered the people from the palace to say, "Go back and report to me. All is well with the crown prince, please don't worry about the empress dowager and the empress dowager. In addition, I will pass on my will and tell the concubine of the Yonghe Palace that when it is warm and cold, the empress dowager likes to be cool, so I want her to be careful and take care of herself .”

The prince stood aside, raised his head high and said, "Also ask Grandmother Taihuang and Grandmother for me, saying that the prince lives and eats with the emperor, everything is fine, please don't worry about Grandmother."

Xuanye smiled: "Just as the prince said." After the visitor left, he took his son to eat. On the way, Yinfeng asked him: "Will Huang Ama take the emperor sister, emperor brother and third brother with her when she travels next time?" , fourth brother and younger sisters come together?"

Xuan Ye said: "This trip is special, Huang Ama will bring them together next time, but your third and fourth brothers are still young, and it will be a few years."

Yinfeng nodded and said: "I listened to Huang Ama, but I feel that the prince should be self-disciplined in studying, riding and shooting, and cannot be neglected, but there is no need to distinguish between princes and princes. I don't want to be a prince because I am a prince. Born with brothers and sisters. Zhang Taifu said that there is a difference between the son-in-law and the brothers and sisters, and the son-in-law thought that now the son-in-law is just the prince, and the siblings come first, and then the emperor, Huang Ama, do you think so?"

"You have made great progress." Xuan Ye was pleased, sighing secretly in his heart that he is a prince. Yinti has been in the study for so long, and he still speaks and acts very childishly. The prince has only been studying seriously for two months, and he has lost a lot of childishness. , Whether he thought it up by himself or Zhang Ying and the others taught him, he was very satisfied.And what Zhang Ying said was right, the crown prince is different from other princes and ministers, Xuan Ye didn't want anyone to belittle him because of the death of the prince's mother, it's not a bad thing for a child to have the self-esteem of a prince.

The little guy raised his head proudly, looked at his father adoringly and said, "I will be a good prince and share state affairs for Huang Ama in the future."

Xuan Ye happily patted his head: "Huang Ama will teach you well."

The father is kind and the son is filial, and it is rare for him to be alone. The prince is much more lively than when he was in the palace. In the next few days, he followed his father to worship and sacrifice. Xuan Ye was naturally very happy about the blessings of the Qing Dynasty, and made people tell these things back to the capital, so that the emperor's grandmother would also be relieved and happy.

In the Palace of Compassion and Ning in the Forbidden City, the Empress Dowager was naturally relieved to hear these things, but she did not reveal it in front of others, and only said to Aunt Su Mala in private: "If the prince is established early, there are advantages and disadvantages. If the child does not live up to expectations If you grow up, you will not be able to sit in the Eastern Palace sooner or later. Fortunately, the crown prince is the emperor's son-in-law with extraordinary destiny. I see that this child will have a bright future, but I can't talk too much. Who knows what will happen decades later?"

Aunt Su Mala didn't quite understand, "What are you worried about, Master?"

The Empress Dowager sighed softly, and said: "If Xuan Ye can live as long as you and me, wouldn't the prince be a prince for 40 to 20 years? The prince in his youth must be full of high spirits and high ambitions. Here, I will definitely learn a lot of skills and make a difference. But what about in the future? All the princes have grown up, and they are the sons of the emperor. Why should they not be emperors? Whether it is Taizong, Fulin and Xuanye Well, none of them are legitimate sons. There is no direct son in the Qing Dynasty to inherit the rule. If so, other princes will not think about it? I am afraid that their daughters have already started to think about it now, and they should think about it themselves in 30 or [-] years. "

Hearing these words, Madam Su Mala was very nervous, and persuaded softly: "I can't say it, I'm afraid no one will mention it and dare not have such a heart. Once I hear about it, I will be shaken."

The Empress Dowager, however, could see it openly: "If this day really happened, the two of us would have been gone long ago, invisible, intangible, and nothing to worry about. Even if it is right in front of my eyes now, I wouldn't be too sad. At the beginning, I would not be too sad. Before ascension to the throne, and to protect Xuanye's ascension, which road is not to overcome obstacles? The prince's life will not go smoothly, whether he can go on or not, depends on his fate, and more on his own virtue. Those who are capable will win the world through hard work Only then will we cherish it. These are all things to say, you and I can’t see them.”

Mammy sighed: "I really don't want to see that day. It was not easy for Taizong back then. The four great belors fought openly and secretly. Even if Taizong became a sweat, they still stared at each other. Back then, the belors followed the emperor Taizu on the battlefield. They grew up rolling, but today's princes are all raised by wet nurses, from now on..."

"No matter what, it will be passed down from generation to generation. How could Zhu Yuanzhang have thought that the Forbidden City would be ruled by the Manchus? I don't want to think about what will happen hundreds of years later. I have experienced everything in my life. I am satisfied." The Empress Dowager smiled lightly, "Su Mala, we are also getting older, and we will leave someday. It is not our turn to worry about things that will happen decades later, and it is time to enjoy life in peace."

"My maidservant listens to you, now go and see if Empress Debi's tea is ready, but the maid in the tea room is lazy, she can't do it alone." Madam Su Mala smiled, turned and went outside, But when she went out, she saw Debi standing there with tea in her hands. She reached out to touch the tea bowl and found that it was no longer hot, so she pulled Lan Qi outside and asked softly, "How long has your mother been here?"

Lan Qi said frankly: "It's been a long time, and I've heard everything I should have heard, and I don't know why, so I just stay there and don't want to move anymore, Mammy, I should go and admit my mistake to the Empress Dowager."

"My servant and you went to change the tea again. You don't need to admit your mistake, and the master didn't say anything important." Aunt Su Mala and she went back to the tea room, and they changed the hot tea again in silence. Talking, she didn't ask Lan Qi until she was about to leave, "Do you still remember what the servant girl said to you?"

What the old man said just now touched Lan Qi's mind. Now that the nanny asked, she immediately had an answer, nodded vigorously and said, "You said that I can't do politics, but I can look after my son. with his own son."

Aunt Su Mala happily went with her to the Empress Dowager, and said with a smile on the way: "That's it, slaves and masters can just enjoy the blessings, and you have to make up your own mind about the future, anyway... You have Lord Long Live by your side."

When the two entered the door, the Empress Dowager didn't know about these things. Seeing that Lan Qi's clothes were thin, she said to her: "Xuan Ye sent someone to tell you not to be greedy. Why don't you wear one more, so thin? I'm all cold."

Lan Qi hurried out and added a gown and came in, and said with a smile, "The stove in the tea room gets hot as soon as it bakes, and I just took it off."

The Empress Dowager drank her favorite candied date tea, leaned aside comfortably and said, "Don't be young and ignorant of maintenance. Look at Yibi's illness. She will have to take care of it before summer. Xuanye will be back in a blink of an eye. You You have to wait by your side, don't catch a cold and cough, Yin Zuo is over a year old, you should give him a younger brother and sister."

Lan Qi's cheeks were flushed, and she said beside the Empress Dowager: "You always talk like this, but at least you also take care of your concubine's thin skin. There are times when the emperor said the same thing to you, and he was bullied and made fun of when he turned around. .”

But it made the Empress Dowager very happy, rubbed her and said: "It's true, you can't take care of him when you are pregnant, you guys, it's really contradictory."

At this time, the palace maids outside came to report, saying that the Empress Dowager Wen was here, but the Empress Dowager was surprised, how could this little Niu Hulu family come here, and this hour should not come to pay her respects at dawn or dusk, so she asked Madam Su Ma to go out and have a look Not long after, the nanny came back first and whispered beside the empress dowager. The old man frowned and asked deeply: "There is such a thing?"

Lan Qi was already standing aside, the Empress Dowager looked at her, she seemed to feel that there was nothing wrong, so she asked Aunt Su Ma to bring someone in, and as soon as Concubine Wen entered, Lan Qi saw her eyes were red as if she had cried, Behind him was Dong Yun, and another imperial physician.

Everyone kowtowed and saluted, the Empress Dowager let Concubine Wen sit down, and asked the imperial physician directly, "How did you find out?"

Lan Qi was baffled by what she heard, but she saw that Concubine Wen, who had been very lively and cheerful recently, turned her face away and wept, but wiped it stubbornly, and then listened to the imperial doctor and Dong Yun explain what happened, and Lan Qi felt chills down her spine .

I still remember that on the day Jue Chan gave birth, Lan Qi was in the Xianfu Palace and met Concubine Wen who was uncomfortable. Dongyun specially made black chicken soup. Obviously he also pays attention to maintenance on weekdays, but Concubine Wen has always been soft and soft. This time Because of Jue Chan's postpartum care, he also needs to take medicine every day. When the imperial physician came to check, he found that the tonic that Concubine Wen usually took had a wrong smell. That's right, Concubine Wen has been taking this tonic for a year or two.

The medicine that Rujue Chan often takes at this moment promotes qi and promotes blood to help discharge lochia, but Concubine Wen has taken the medicine with a similar effect for a year or two. Such a weak body with such strong blood naturally cannot hold the fetus in the womb. Judging from this inference, in the past two years, Concubine Wen has served a lot of bedtime but there has been no good news. It must be because of taking the wrong medicine.

When Lan Qi was taking care of her body back then, she took medicine with the Compassion Ning Palace every day. She never thought that she would take the wrong medicine, but in fact, after the careful care of Aunt Su Mala, she really gave birth to her fourth elder brother smoothly, and then she had another baby brother. For Yinzuo, those medicines must be excellent things, but the same thing happened to Concubine Wen, and she took the wrong medicine for so long without knowing it.

The imperial doctor said even more alarmistly: "If you take it for another three or four years, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Concubine Wen to conceive for the rest of her life."

The Empress Dowager turned pale with anger. Although Concubine Wen was weeping, she did not cry. She sat there for a long time before she heard the Empress Dowager ask her: "Who else knows about this? You...you What about the family?"

Concubine Wen calmed down and said: "After hearing what the imperial physician said, my concubine came to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to invite you to make decisions. Who is in the family? Ah Ling, the concubines will not see each other anymore."