Honghui is reborn in Legend of Zhen Huan, I will protect my mother

A huge group of people left the Ningshou Palace in an orderly manner, and then went their separate ways.

Most of them left the palace directly, but there were also some who would not leave the palace for the time being, such as the women in the prince's mansion and the emperor's grandsons and granddaughters. They had to wait until the banquet in the Hall of Supreme Harmony was over before they could follow their masters out of the palace.

So Honghui had to go back to Yonghe Palace with Mama first, and then wait for Ama there, and then they could go back to the mansion together.

On the way back to Yonghe Palace, the group talked and laughed, as if nothing had happened today, until they returned to Yonghe Palace.

"Zhuxi, ask the kitchen to send some snacks over."

In front of the younger generations, Concubine De smiled kindly and benevolently, "You all came to the palace early in the morning and have been sitting here for several hours. You must be tired, right? Have some snacks later. The banquet in the Hall of Supreme Harmony will not end so soon."

She stood up and said nonchalantly, "I'm tired. Yixiu, the fourteenth master's wife, please help me go in and change clothes." She seemed to have something to say.

When they entered the inner room, Concubine De immediately frowned, "Guo Luoluo is too much of a bully. As a younger sister-in-law, she dares to interfere in the affairs of her sister-in-law's house. Isn't this meddling in other people's business?"

"Aunt/mother, please calm down. Don't get yourself sick from anger!"

"Calm down? I do want to calm down, but that Guo Luoluo doesn't give me face and is targeting my niece. If I don't take it to heart, the Ulanara and Uya families will be bullied!"

Yixiu's face turned pale, and she thought of the humiliation she had suffered today. She stepped forward to persuade him, "Aunt, it's just a few words of scolding. I will just listen to it and forget it. I won't take it to heart. You also know how the Eighth Lady is. It's not worth getting angry with her and getting sick from it."

Defei took Yixiu's hand and patted it a few times to comfort her.

"My dear, I have wronged you today! Today is the first day of the new year, and she is a junior, so I can't argue with her, so I didn't bring it up in front of the Queen Mother. But don't worry, I won't bear this, and I will definitely get it back for you in the future."

Yixiu didn't care about this, because her son made the decision for her on the spot. She felt relieved that her son was so filial!

"I can't argue with a junior, but can't I do anything to her elders? The troubles caused by the juniors are all due to the elders' failure to discipline them."

Concubine Yi hurriedly shouted, "Aunt, Concubine Hui has an older brother, the Prince of Zhi was quite powerful in the previous dynasty, and Concubine Liang is a member of her palace. I can't let you make enemies for the sake of my niece!"

Seeing Yixiu caring about her so much, Defei was very pleased, and her daily efforts were worth it. However, Yixiu's thinking was a bit superficial, and the matter of Guo Luoluo could not be blamed on Huifei.

"It's okay. Concubine Hui is just an adoptive mother. With Concubine Liang around, neither the emperor nor the empress dowager can hold Concubine Hui responsible. Concubine Hui is very smart. She rarely disciplines Guo Luoluo and pushes everything onto Concubine Liang, her biological mother. So if I blame her for Guo Luoluo's crime, I would be wrong."

How did Xin Yixiu and others in the palace know this? They were both stunned.

Seeing that the two were very supportive, De Fei was in high spirits. "So that you know, this Guo Luoluo said she was filial, but she was only filial to her adoptive mother Hui Fei, and she actually relegated the Eighth Prince's biological mother to the quagmire. When she came to the palace to pay respects, she would only go to the main hall where Hui Fei was, and rarely set foot in the east side hall where Liangpin was. Even today, on the first day of the first lunar month, she didn't even go to Liangpin's place to pay respects."

Yixiu blurted out, "What? Both giving birth and raising are graces! How can you only be filial to your adoptive mother and forget your biological mother? Concubine Liang went through ten months of pregnancy and painstaking efforts to give birth to the Eighth Prince, how can the Eighth Lady forget about her? Will the Eighth Prince just ignore her? In this world, only mothers who have given birth to children know how much hardship they have endured and how they have gone through the gates of hell to bring their children into the world."

These words hit the nail on the head for Concubine De. The question of which is greater, the grace of giving birth or the grace of raising, is deeply rooted in her heart.

"My dear child, you are absolutely right. Children are all a piece of flesh and blood from us mothers. We are connected by blood and blood is thicker than water. The Eighth Prince is also confused. He only praises Guo Luoluo because of her high birth, and thus wrongs his biological mother. If the Fourth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince follow the Eighth Prince's example and are unfilial to me, I will definitely break their legs."

Yixiu and Defei are related by blood, so she naturally stands on Defei's side. "Aunt is right, but the Fourth Master has always been very filial to you, and he will definitely not follow the Eighth Prince's example."

Wanyan also followed suit and said, "Mother, you are worrying too much. The Fourteenth Master is extremely filial to you."

De Fei was flattered and her mood improved. "Well, are you all hungry? Go down and have some snacks! I called you in to talk to you because I want to be close to you. Yixiu, the fourteenth old man, please don't look down on me, an old woman, for being too talkative."

The two men hurriedly said they didn't dare, and embraced Concubine De back to the front hall to meet up with the others.

At this time, Honghui had already eaten four or five plates of snacks, drank two cups of tea, and played with his cousin for a long time before he saw his mother, Aunt Fourteen, and Mama.

The haze surrounding my mother and my mother seemed to have dissipated a lot. Did something happen?

He took a few steps forward and walked up to Mama, pretending to be depressed, "Mama, did my grandson cause you any trouble today? But I am your biological mother, how can I, as a son, just stand by and watch you get humiliated?"

Concubine De held her grandson in her arms and comforted him softly, "Honghui, you did nothing wrong today. The Qing Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety. Since when did being filial to one's mother become a mistake? What's more, what you said makes sense. How can the royal family continue to have children by relying on only the wife? All these concubines were selected by the emperor. They did nothing wrong, but their family backgrounds were not as good as the wife's!"

"The wife is in charge of the backyard, and the concubines are responsible for the succession of children. They each have their own responsibilities. How can they be lumped together with ordinary people's families?"

Honghui felt more than once that Eighth Aunt was born in the wrong era. She should go to the future era where everyone is equal. There, she can live a very happy life, which is better than gradually withering away in expectation and disappointment.

People in later generations always talk about monogamy and one couple for life, and they also say that it was wrong for "ancient people" to have one wife and multiple concubines. They look down on the existence of concubines and think that they are all self-degrading.

Honghui has something to say. Did these concubines choose to be concubines by themselves? The existence of the Qing Dynasty's selection system means that their future is entirely in the hands of others, and they cannot make their own decisions.

Of course, there will definitely be people here who are ambitious and want to pursue wealth and glory, because they have no other choice but to depend on their husbands, fighting hard in the small backyard, and finally gain a stable second half of their lives.

The small backyard represents the life of a Qing Dynasty woman!