The holy driver left the Northwest Yanlou and headed to Huichun Villa.
Kangxi previously sent a message to Concubine Hui, but Concubine Yi did not send a message here.
Because I’m not sure if I’ll make it through.
Now, on his way back to Qingxi Bookstore, he wanted to go and have a look.
Thinking that Concubine Hui had just come out to pick him up, Kangxi told Liang Jiugong: "Tell the person in front that you don't need to be whipped."
Liang Jiugong responded, walked a few steps quickly, and sent a message to Luan Yiwei in front.
This also means being considerate of Yi Fei.
At dusk, the Holy Master quietly arrived outside Huichun Villa.
Kangxi got off the chariot and went in directly.
The eunuch at the door was about to kneel down to say hello, but Kangxi stopped him with his hand.
In the room, Peilan was persuading Concubine Yi, saying: "Master ordered me to make the ravioli that Brother Seventeen loves to eat. Why don't you leave Brother Seventeen to eat here? Brother is also thinking about the empress. He's here in the afternoon. Twice.”
Concubine Yi sighed and said, "I'll eat the same food if I send it over. While we don't remember much, let's separate slowly, so as not to bear the stress of being separated later."
Peilan paused and said, "Then shall I bring little brother over?"
Concubine Yi shook her head and said, "No, Xiao Qi knows it's time to feel sad, so let's do this for now."
Peilan felt extremely distressed and said, "Master can't bear to leave Seventeenth Brother, why don't you beg the Emperor?"
Concubine Yi said sadly: "If you don't move this year, you will move the palace in two years. It's the same..."
That's what he said, but both the master and the servant knew that something was different.
This little baby who moved to Yikun Palace when he turned one year old has watched him grow up little by little and is such a cute and well-behaved child. Who would let him go?
Kangxi paused at the door and stepped harder.
The master and servant looked at the door and saw Kangxi standing upright in the sunset.
Concubine Yi, who was leaning lazily, immediately became happy when she saw this. She stood up to greet him and said, "The emperor is here!"
Kangxi said: "It's dark, why don't you light the lamp?"
Peilan took the palace servants with him and immediately went to light the lamps.
Concubine Yi smiled and said, "It's hot and I'm sleepy, so I'll be lying a little longer."
The lamp in the corner of the room was lit.
Peilan also took the candlestick and placed it on the table.
Under the candlelight, Concubine Yi's little face was smiling and glowing pink.
Kangxi could mention Chengqing frankly to Concubine Hui, but he didn't want to mention Brother Eleven in front of Concubine Yi.
In the year when Brother Eleven died, Concubine Yi's pulse became seriously ill and she almost died.
He mentioned the ninth elder brother and said: "Lao Jiu has returned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I have arranged for Zhang Ying's son Zhang Tingzhan to be his attendant. Let him study for a few years and then go to the imperial court, so as not to go there now. It's such a mess, and I still want to get angry with those ministers..."
After hearing this, Concubine Yi couldn't help but smile and said: "It's strange that a person who didn't like studying since he was a child can change his mind at such an old age! It's the emperor's arrangement. He is the emperor's son. I have given up long ago, so I don't want to follow him. Don’t worry, you won’t have to worry about it…”
Kangxi added: "I have also inquired about the situation of the fifth daughter-in-law. The due date is around the Mid-Autumn Festival. I hope that she will be the legitimate grandson of the emperor. It will save trouble for her in the future."
Yi Fei didn't know what to say.
Who doesn’t look forward to grandchildren?
But before landing, no one can tell whether it is a boy or a girl.
If I am sure now, if I look back on my elder brother and the emperor is dissatisfied, there is no way he will anger Wufujin.
She smiled and said: "This is just the beginning, and there will be more after that. I still remember clearly that the emperor pointed out Wufujin. In addition to the upright family tradition, it was also because she had several uncles and several brothers. "
A daughter follows her mother, and after she becomes pregnant, she can give birth.
Of course, the daughter-in-law chosen by Kangxi himself also remembered this.
Just because there was no movement in the first three years, I forgot about this.
Kangxi nodded and said: "Well, whether it's the eldest daughter or the eldest son, once you have a child, your life will be different, and the queen mother doesn't have to worry about them..."
When it was time to eat, Concubine Yi said: "I asked the kitchen to prepare small wontons today. Would your Majesty want to try them?"
Kangxi said: "Then try it. There is no need to ask the kitchen to add more dishes. Just eat whatever is available."
Concubine Yi responded and ordered Peilan to go to the dining room to pass the meal.
Kangxi felt that the room seemed a little different. When he looked around, he found that the wooden horse in the corner and the cloth tiger on the kang were gone. There were also many small pillows and towels for children, and they were all put away. .
The room suddenly became much emptier.
Kangxi didn't know how to comfort her. He sympathized with Concubine Yi's maternal heart, but didn't want to change his mind.
At this time, Peilan brought someone to prepare a meal.
In addition to two bowls of small wontons, there are four side dishes, sesame spinach, sweet and sour shredded radish, egg rolls, and stir-fried diced chicken with soy sauce.
Yifei's bowl of wontons had a wider soup and fewer wontons; the wontons in front of Kangxi were more like a bowl of dumplings.
Kangxi glanced at Concubine Yi's bowl and said, "Is this too little?"
Concubine Yi smiled and said, "I love to gain weight. I always eat less at night. I eat all the delicious food at noon."
Kangxi didn't say much, and the emperor and his wife had a meal of wontons.
After putting down Kuaizi, Kangxi said: "I still have some things to do, so I'll leave first."
Concubine Yi sent her outside, watched Kangxi get on the chariot, watched the holy driver leave, and then helped Peilan turn around.
It always feels weird, but I don't know where it is.
It doesn't sound like Lao Jiu is causing trouble, so there's nothing to worry about...
Shengjia did not go back to Qingxi Bookstore, but went directly out of the small east gate. There was already a carriage and guards waiting behind.
Kangxi was sitting in the carriage, looking a little stunned.
He didn't know where Concubine Rong came from. She spent a lot of money just to bribe the little eunuch next to the prince...
He didn't know what else Concubine Rong had done besides this.
No matter how many reasons there are, if Concubine Rong takes action against Yuqing Palace, she will have to suffer the consequences.
The carriage will enter the city before the city gate is closed at the third quarter of Xu Zheng.
For others, it would be easy to enter the imperial city at this time, but the palace gate would not be open.
In Kangxi's case, the journey was smooth, taking Di'anmen, Shenwumen, and entering the Forbidden City.
Kangxi walked, took the guards and eunuchs, and came directly to Zhongcui Palace.
It was now the second hour of Haizheng, and the inner court had been locked, so many palace doors had to be opened.
When we arrived at Zhongcui Palace, the moon was about to rise, and the stars were twinkling in the night sky.
There was a bit of desertedness in Zhongcui Palace.
There is a light in the west corner of the main hall, which is the inner Buddhist hall of Concubine Rong.
Kangxi asked someone to stop the eunuchs and palace attendants who were about to go in to make announcements, and then opened the door and entered Zhongcui Palace.
As soon as we arrived at Xicijian, there were voices of doubt in Xichaojian, and the voices were very soft.
Kangxi walked to the door and heard Baba clearly.
"Bodhisattva, am I going crazy? My eyes are dazzled and my ears are not working anymore. Everything I hear sounds like the emperor's footsteps..."
Concubine Rong knelt on the ground, picked up Buddha beans, and murmured: "It's time for my ears to die. I'm fifty, and I've been in the palace for forty years..."
Kangxi stood behind Concubine Rong and said, "It's me, I'm here."
Concubine Rong did not stand up, but turned her head directly.
Kangxi seemed to have returned to forty years ago, when he saw the teenage little princess in the Buddhist hall of the Empress Dowager.
Concubine Rong looked directly at Kangxi and said, "It turns out that it's not my concubine who is stunned, but the emperor is really here."
There was no emotion or anger on Kangxi's face. He looked down at Concubine Rong and said, "You should know why I came..."
Concubine Rong smiled and nodded, with a very peaceful look on her face, and said: "I have been stupid for most of my life, now I should be a sensible person."
Kangxi sat cross-legged on the ground, without the initial anger, and said: "Ji Nai, you should know that I am a traitor. The crown prince does not allow anyone to interfere..."
Ji Nai is Concubine Rong’s nickname.
Concubine Rong was still smiling, with deep sadness in her eyes, and said: "Your Majesty, I know, I'm afraid I'm going to be a ghost. At the end of the day, I'll ask my mistress in person, except for the ones mixed with musk." Rose Perfume, several younger brothers are gone, is it because of her..."
Kangxi was stunned and said: "Musk perfume?"
Concubine Rong leaned forward and pulled out the drawer under the Buddha statue. There were two bottles of perfume lying in it.
One is an old-style perfume bottle, and the other looks like a modern perfume bottle.
Concubine Rong fumbled with two bottles of perfume and said: "I am timid. After meeting the chickens in the dining room, I didn't eat chicken for half a year. I also want to try it with someone from the housekeeper. But I don’t want to and can’t bear it, so let the prince try it, and the cause and effect will be considered. If it doesn’t harm anyone, it’s a false alarm; if it harms someone, it’s the result of what the master and his wife planted..."
Speaking of this, she looked at Kangxi without fear and said: "I know that the Crown Prince is noble, and this is a capital crime. But if I don't understand this matter, I won't live long..."
As she spoke, she took off the hairpin on her head, revealing the gray hair underneath and the top of her head, which was so sparse that her scalp was exposed. She said, "I can't sleep all night long. My hair is falling out in handfuls. Close your eyes." , that is Chengrui, that is Saiyinchahun..."
Kangxi took a breath and said: "You Hutu! You should tell me and let me investigate this matter. They... are also my sons..."
Concubine Rong grabbed the perfume bottle and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty wants to say, maybe it's not the Mistress, maybe it's someone else, but Your Majesty, I remember clearly that the Mistress also liked rose perfume at the beginning, but since she learned I liked it, and after I rewarded it, I switched to osmanthus perfume. This way of giving in to inferiority was frightening. I was so frightened because of this, that I wanted to kowtow and apologize. The mistress even comforted me, saying that it was not that bad. She is so particular, she loves osmanthus, but not only does she no longer use rose perfume, but no one else has the same smell, and this has become my concubine’s exclusive..."
At that time, she thought it was a flattery, so she became more and more respectful.
But this is a long grace reward, and I dare not use it.
It's not that I haven't thought about whether something was wrong, but except for the third son Luoyao, the other children are all three or four years old, and they have grown up before their eyes.
Who would have thought that there could be anything wrong with this...
Even if the taste has changed before and after, I still think that these are all sent by the customs, not supplied by a foreign merchant, nor produced in the same place...
