Quick Wear: I was a Favored Concubine in the Qing Dynasty

Yu Suisui turned his gaze back to the new queen. There was an illness on Niuhuru's face that could not be concealed even by makeup. Yu Suisui thought about the time of Niuhuru's death in history. It was already November now, and there were more than three months left until February next year.

According to this calculation, Niuhulu only had more than a hundred days to live.

Yu Suisui had no intention of saving people. There was a big difference between being alive and being dead here. Recalling the novels he read before, he felt sorry for Kangxi because his three wives had died, sorry for the Fourth Master who did not have the love of his biological mother, sorry for the Eighth Master who had a humble family background and was unsuccessful.

There are also people who feel sorry for the prince for not getting the throne in the end. Yu Suisui could only say "hehe". These men need your sympathy. Why don't you feel sorry for them? You were just a slave when you traveled through time. After entering the harem and the mansion, you became those men's playthings.

The country and the beauty, this obvious order tells you that the country comes first, what are you!

After the greetings were over, the Queen went to the Cining Palace alone. The Grand Empress Dowager only saw the Queen now, and even when the Imperial Concubine went there, she would only greet her occasionally and then ask her to come back.

Yu Suisui was feeling a bit depressed and was thinking about going to the Imperial Garden. It would be nice to sit around the fire in the Wanchun Pavilion and make tea on such a snowy day.

"Xi Lan, go back to Changchun Palace and get some Yihong, snacks and fruits. I want to sit in Wanchun Pavilion." There must be a small stove in Wanchun Pavilion. She will ask someone to light a charcoal fire later. This weather is suitable for drinking milk tea.

Concubine Tong, who had just walked a short distance away, heard this and immediately turned around and asked, "Sister, do you mind adding one more person?"

She had nothing to do recently. After the Empress took control of the palace, she became idle. She just practiced calligraphy to pass the time in Jingren Palace.

Yu Suisui was stunned for a moment and responded, "I don't mind, let's go to Wanchun Pavilion together." She and Concubine Tong had not been in contact for a long time. It must be that since the last time she came to see her in a daze, the two of them have never had any private contact since then.

Concubine Tong stretched her hand out of her sleeve, took Yu Suisui's arm, and said with a smile, "Thank you, sister." She was a concubine now, so it was not inappropriate to call Hesheli sister.

After she went back last time, she felt embarrassed and was afraid of meeting Hesheli for many days. She didn't want anyone to see her embarrassment.

That time, she was in her cousin's study and found several portraits of Empress Yuan in the octagonal rosewood scroll next to it. At that time, she also learned from her cousin that he wanted to make Niuhulu his successor, and she was sad and angry.

In a fit of anger, he went to Changchun Palace, but after seeing Yu Suisui, he had nothing to say. He just stared at her in a daze for a while. When he came to his senses, his face started to burn again. He dodged her like this for a while.

Others saw that Concubine Tong and Concubine Xi went to Wanchun Pavilion for entertainment. When Concubine Rong found out, she frowned and wondered in her heart, could it be that Concubine Tong wanted to make friends with Hesheli?

When they arrived at Wanchun Pavilion, Yu Sui waited for Xi Lan to bring the things and then started to make tea by himself. The tea soup of Yihong was orange-red in color and had a mellow taste, which was very suitable for making milk tea.

She placed a grill on another charcoal stove and threw a few oranges, red dates and peanuts on it. She then spent the whole day with Concubine Tong in Wanchun Pavilion.

It's cold in winter, and Yu Suisui can't live without a hand warmer. This time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent him a round hand warmer with a cloisonné crabapple pattern. Yu Suisui took it in his hand and played with it. It looked so beautiful, but with a cover on it, its beauty was almost buried in the ground.

I had to find a piece of green satin brocade with a grape pattern to give this beautiful hand warmer a nice dress.

Xi Lan was finishing up this cover and asked, "Master, are you going to Baohua Palace tomorrow?" She didn't know what was wrong with the master recently, and he started going to Baohua Palace again.

Ji Liang was splitting silk threads, wanting to make some beautiful velvet flowers. This winter should have something bright. Hearing Xi Lan's words, he asked, "Would you like me to join you tomorrow?"

Now there are eight palace maids, two eunuchs, and maids in Changchun Palace, not counting those who do the cleaning. Ji Liang came at a good time and soon became the head palace maid beside Yu Susui.

"Both of you come with me, and remember to bring some money for incense." She really didn't know how to pass the time. It would be nice to go to Baohua Temple to listen to the monk chanting sutras, but the wonderful method of chanting sutras for her in the past took him to the Western Paradise, which he had longed for, last year.

The one who is chanting sutras for her now is Miaofa's junior fellow apprentice Miaoyan, who is also eighty-seven years old now.

After listening to the sutra for more than a month, New Year's Eve would be in two days. It seemed as if Kangxi had developed a habit for himself. Every few days before New Year's Eve, he would take one day to come over, order the imperial meal, and have a meal with her.

She now has a lot of blessing characters piled up in her study, all on white paper, and she doesn't think it's Chinese New Year.

At the New Year's banquet, Yu Suisui sat quietly on one side, and below him was Concubine Yi, who was famous for being the "most favored" concubine during the reign of Emperor Kangxi. She was dressed in a silver-red satin patterned cloak with hundreds of butterflies, and with her pretty face that could either be angry or happy, she looked radiant.

Yu Suisui picked up the wine glass beside him and took a sip. This was flower dew, not wine.

Putting down the cup, Yu Suisui began to look at the other people in the palace. The wives and concubines in the prince's mansion were all dressed in gorgeous clothes. She wanted to eat, but there was no guarantee that every dish on the table would be hot. She frowned slightly. It seemed that she would have to ask the kitchen to make some new food when she returned.

While Yu Suisui was looking around, Concubine Yi was also observing her next-door neighbor. She should be considered the only person in the palace who refused visitors behind closed doors. She had been in the palace for nearly a year and had never set foot in Changchun Palace once.

She was a concubine before, but after becoming Concubine Yi, she had no chance to step into Changchun Palace. The palace maid who served her said that Changchun Palace was the quietest in the palace.

She could be seen when paying her respects, and they would just nod to each other. The only person she had any interaction with was Concubine Tong. I heard that they had once had tea at Wanchun Pavilion.

They were neighbors. Even if they were not good friends, they should at least know each other. She sent a visiting card to him, but he never responded. She also mentioned it to the emperor in a tactful way, but the emperor just said that she was born to be quiet and told her not to disturb him.

Sometimes she felt that the emperor did not like her that much. Changchun Palace was Xipin's palace alone, with her as the only master. Among the twelve palaces, the master was accompanied by one or two concubines of lower rank, and her own sister also lived in her own palace.

Concubine Yi felt bitter in her heart and forced herself to look away.

Yu Suisui finally got through the banquet. She never wanted to come again. This was a large-scale performance venue. It didn't matter whether she was there as an audience or not. She was thinking about whether she could ask Kangxi for leave next year.

After returning to Changchun Palace, Yu Suisui ate a bowl of hot noodle soup with a golden and crispy fried egg on top. She took a bite of the egg and drank a sip of the hot soup, feeling so comfortable!

On the second day of the New Year, Yu Susui learned that Kangxi had gone crazy again in the middle of the night and went to Gonghua City. The Queen was so angry that she fainted.

The Kunning Palace was suddenly in chaos. What was going on?

The empress was ill, and Yu Suisui had to run to Kunning Palace twice a day like everyone else. It was not until the 15th day that the empress showed signs of improvement. As a result, Kangxi went to Gonghua City again.

The empress fell down and never got up again until February 26, at the hour of si, when Niuhulu passed away.

The harem began to follow the same procedures as when Empress Yuan died, and they began to keep vigil for the Empress Dowager.

It was not until April that Kangxi appeared in the harem again. At that time, Yu Suisui had just learned that the concubine Uya in Jingren Palace was two months pregnant.

Kangxi was sitting on the Luohan couch made of huanghuali wood and carved with cloud patterns in the west room. Yu Suisui could not see any unusual emotions in him. It was unclear whether Kangxi had become more cunning or was simply not sad.

"I heard that you went to Baohua Palace again?" She was always so kind. When Fangyi went there, she also went to Baohua Palace. When Niuhulu went there, she also went there.

Yu Suisui ate almond cheese and hummed. She was hungry and didn't feel like talking.

Kangxi kicked off his shoes, sat cross-legged on the couch, and looked down at Yu Suisui, thinking to himself that this Hesheli was very silent when it came time to boast about her merits, and she was also very chattering when she usually talked, but when it was time to speak, she said nothing.

After Yu Sui finished her snack, she carefully wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief. Then she looked up at Kangxi and asked, "What's on my face?" Could it be that she didn't wipe it clean and there was still something on the corners of her mouth?

I reached out and touched the corner of my mouth. There was nothing.

She looked at Kangxi in confusion.

Seeing that she was the same as always, Kangxi felt somewhat satisfied. A faint smile spread across the corners of his mouth, and he sighed, "After so many years, you haven't changed at all."

She must be over 20 now, right? She looked even more beautiful. Looking at her fair and smooth face, Kangxi beckoned her over, his touch still as delicate as usual.

Yu Suisui didn't understand what was going on, he just echoed Kangxi's words, talking about this and that, all sorts of random things.

Suddenly the topic turned to Concubine Tong, "I heard that you have a good relationship with your cousin?"

Although my cousin has her own little thoughts, she is also straightforward.

Yu Suisui did not deny that at present she and Concubine Tong could be roughly regarded as colleagues. "It's OK. We've had tea together a few times."

"You have a gentle temperament. Although she is a bit spoiled, she is not a bad person. If you like her, you can interact with her more." Kangxi said.

arrogant?????

Yu Suisui was very confused. She felt fine when she met Concubine Tong several times and she didn't have any strong emotions. How come Kangxi considered this as spoiling? Wouldn't that make her look down on everyone?

In fact, Yu Suisui was not wrong in her guess. In the eyes of other concubines in the harem, she was labeled as an old friend of the Empress Yuan, with a weird personality and not sociable.

But Yu Suisui could not refute, "I feel this is good enough. I don't really like socializing with people." Instead of dealing with the concubines in the harem, she might as well go to the Baohua Palace to listen to Miaoyan's lectures on Buddhism.

She actually didn't like Buddhism, she was just too bored.

She was trapped in this vast palace, unable to get out and with nothing to do. She felt that these women were all imprisoned like this, with nothing to do but to please a man, with their lives, personal and family honor and disgrace all tied to them, which was a sad thing to think about.

There were too many women like this in the harem, so many that after seeing one of them, Yu Sui would forget what that person looked like the moment he turned around.

Kangxi squeezed Yu Suisui's hand, which felt somewhat soft, and rubbed it for a while, "As long as you are happy, if you don't want to, just stay in Changchun Palace by yourself."

He didn't want to force Hesheli to change her personality. It would be better for her to live more freely.

Yu Susui didn't know how to continue with this incoherent talk. The way Kangxi looked at her sometimes made her scalp tingle. She knew what that look was.

Every time at this time, she wanted to ask the original owner to come and have a look, so that you can pray to grow old with Kangxi, and you are not innocent for digging wild vegetables for eighty years.

After Kangxi came to Changchun Palace, all the palaces were treated equally. When he went to pay his respects to Concubine Tong, Concubine Tong said with a smile that there were two new people in the harem, one was Juechan and the other was Daijia.

Yu Sui had met Juechan several times. She was now wearing a moon-white dress, which made her look even more elegant and refined. The other Daijia was a pretty girl from a small family, but Xilan heard that Daijia's family members were very powerful, so she was another one who was brought into the harem by Kangxi's connections.

If you think about it carefully, the same is true for Concubine An and Concubine Jing. Kangxi really thinks he is a rare treasure.

Then I thought, this is also another kind of selling oneself, right?

There will only be more people in this palace, not less, but the number of people in this palace is limited. There are also regulations on who lives in the main hall. In order to eat better and live better, you have to work hard to climb up.

There are more and more people in Jianfu Palace now, and even Jingyixuan in the back is now home to more than ten court ladies.

Yu Suisui supported Xi Lan and walked out of Jingren Palace, thinking about going to Yuhua Pavilion, where there were waterside pavilions, strange rocks, and gurgling water. She thought it would be a nice place to sit in meditation.

From falling in love with listening to sutras in Baohua Hall to now meditating in Yuhua Pavilion, Yu Suisui can spend the entire morning there.

It seemed that not long after, Uya gave birth to Emperor Yongzheng of later generations. According to the rules, the fourth prince was given to Concubine Tong to raise.

When Yu Suisui paid his respects, he had taken a quick look at him. He was just an ordinary child. This day, Kangxi came again at midnight, and a cold cube of ice squeezed into Yu Suisui's warm quilt.

Kangxi hugged Yu Suisui and said, "Don't you really want to raise a child?" Behind her, Nara in Xianfu Palace was pregnant with the royal heir again, and would give birth in a few months.

Yu Sui was already unhappy about being woken up, and now she was asked to raise a child. She snorted twice and refused, "No! Your Majesty, let's go to sleep, okay?"

Listening to these muffled words, Kangxi sighed inwardly. She was good in every way except this one. If anything unexpected happened in the future, she would have no protection at all.

He hugged Yu Sui tighter in his arms and said, "Forget it, forget it. I won't talk about this matter again."

She is such a stubborn person.

After listening to the sutras for a while, Yu Suisui got bored and started playing with incense in Changchun Palace. However, he found that the incense was not fun at all when he first started. After only ten days, Yu Suisui got tired of it.

Before the end of the first month of the eighteenth year of Kangxi's reign, the Nala clan in Xianfu Palace mentioned by Kangxi earlier lost her eldest son Wanfu.

He said he caught a cold and died just like that. Xi Lan felt a little sad when she talked about it.

Nala gave birth to another prince before the full term. After one month, Kangxi named him Yinzhen.

Then there was another drought. Kangxi had no time to take care of the harem and personally went to the Temple of Heaven to pray for rain. In late May, her elder sister, Guo Luoluo, in Concubine Yi's palace gave birth to the sixth daughter of the emperor.

Kangxi was in a good mood and began to go to the harem frequently. Then, when he was chatting with Uya in the Qianqing Palace, an earthquake occurred. Despite being pregnant, Uya pushed Kangxi hard to prevent him from being hit by the shaking beam.

The rear hall of Changchun Palace where Yu Suisui lived was already in ruins. After things stabilized, Kangxi moved Yu Suisui to Yongshou Palace, which seemed to be the bedroom of the future Noble Concubine Wenxi.

On October 13, Uya was granted the title of Depin.

Yu Suisui knew about the earthquake, but she didn't have any thoughts about it. She didn't plan to take credit for the rescue herself. She just watched.

The following year, in February of the 19th year of the Kangxi reign, Uya gave birth to Yinzuo, a name that is considered to have great meaning in many novels.

It was also this month that Nara lost her youngest son in Xianfu Palace.