[Qing Chuan] The daily life of the seven princes

The imperial concubine peeled a walnut for him while chatting with her son: "You're right, if others want to take what they like from us, that's a robber. So, even if we want to sign a border agreement with them, we must on an equal footing."

The little guy was curious: "Is there still an unequal treaty?"

The imperial concubine stuffed walnuts into her son's mouth: "Of course."

The little guy chewed the walnuts and swallowed: "What is an unequal treaty?"

The imperial concubine stuffed another walnut into his mouth: "Using force to force one party to cede land and pay compensation, lose national sovereignty, rights favor strong countries, and obligations favor weak countries."

The little guy is very good at grasping the key points, and has a righteous face: "Then we will be a strong country, and we will not let others bully us."

As soon as he finished speaking, the imperial concubine heard a "pop", as if something was shattering.

Looking down, the walnut that the little guy had been holding in his hand suddenly broke into two halves.

The imperial concubine quickly put away the things in her hand, and pulled his little hand to check.

Sweeping away the falling crumbs from the walnut carefully, he felt relieved when he saw that his little hands were still white and clean without any wounds.

I felt strange, this walnut is very hard, it takes a lot of effort to clamp it with pliers, and her son crushed it with one hand?

She took another look at the scattered walnut shells on the table, and guessed that maybe the crushed walnuts were placed on the table just now, and were taken away by the little boy to play with.

Yinyou didn't care about the walnut at all, he was still immersed in the conversation just now, and added belatedly: "Whoever dares to bully us, let me beat him!"

"Okay, okay, why worry more than you, Ama?" The imperial concubine ordered the table to be cleared, and asked him to wash his hands and prepare for dinner.

"My Ama won't agree either."

"You, Ama, are currently under attack from both sides and full of lawsuits, so don't provoke him."

Kangxi is really having a headache because of this matter now, mainly because he can't swallow this breath.The place of Nerchinsk is already very close to the extremely cold place in the northeast, and it is not cold and remote.

For such a place, if you continue to stand in a stalemate with the Russians, if you spend half of your energy, you won't be able to free up your hands to deal with the arrogant Galdan.

But just surrendering Nerchinsk to the Russians, he couldn't swallow this breath.

He came to Chengqian Palace every now and then, and said these things to the imperial concubine.

The imperial concubine was not as talkative to him as she was to her son. Whatever he said, the imperial concubine listened.From time to time, he expresses his own opinions, which is also following his thoughts.

But when it comes to this kind of national sovereignty issue, the imperial concubine still revealed a little bit of her own inclination in her words, and gently reminded the emperor to think twice before acting.

These days, everyone is talking about the war between Khalkha Mongolian tribes and Junggar.

Kangxi would tour outside the Great Wall every year, and all the princes over the age of [-] would accompany him there.The purpose of Kangxi is to let them understand a truth from an early age-the whole Mongolia is also the land of the Qing Dynasty and cannot be invaded by others.

Therefore, the princes are also discussing this matter.Once Junggar and Khalkha really fought, the Qing Dynasty must send troops to support it.

Eldest elder brother never leaves his military book now, and he hopes that when the war starts, the emperor will allow him to lead the troops to the front.

One day when Yinyou returned to his yard after riding and archery lessons, he saw Mr. Fu sitting under a tree, with a chess screen and a chess box on the stone table. The yellow leaves are falling, and he is playing chess with himself.

Yinyou walked over and took a look: "This chess looks familiar."

Mr. Fu said without raising his head: "The things I found in your house are all dusty, and they can still be used if you dig them out and wipe them."

"what……"

Yinyou remembered that this set of Go was given to him by the crown prince for his one-year birthday.It's just that he can only play Mongolian chess since he was a child, but he can't play Go, and no one taught him.So, this chess set has been put up.

"Sit down," Mr. Fu told him, "play a game of chess with me."

The little guy blinked: "But I can't."

"No, I can teach you."

The rules of Go are very simple, nothing more than encircling the opponent's pieces and eating them.

Yinyou got started very quickly, and quickly developed a strong interest in this game.

From that day on, he played chess with Mr. Fu every day, losing one game in the next game, and losing ten games in the next ten games.

The problem is that Mr. Fu is not only very skillful in playing chess, but also very skillful in luring the young apprentice to the bait.

Step by step, he exposed his flaws, hooked him into the pit, and then used his ultimate move, making him lose without knowing what to do.

But the little apprentice has a good brain, he will never fall for the second time if he was fooled once, and he can learn and use the tricks he has used in reverse.

Mr. Fu has to think of new ways to trick him every day, give him some sweetness, and always make him think that if he works harder and is more thoughtful, he might win in the next move.

Having had enough of his addiction, Mr. Fu stretched himself and stood up, ready to go back to his residence in Xiyuan to rest.Yinyou begged from the side, one more round, just one round, I will definitely beat you this time.

He couldn't win any more rounds, and continued to play for more than a month, from late autumn when the wind blew and yellow leaves on the trees, to cold winter when the wind blew and snow fell from the trees.

Yinyou can only struggle for a while longer under the master's hands.

The little guy couldn't swallow this breath, so he could only look for his confidence in his brothers.

The point is that none of the elder brothers who are about the same age as him can do it. The prince is too busy, so it would be great if he could spare time to chat with him and have a meal. There is no time to play chess with him.

The elder brother has already moved out of the palace, so he can't easily see anyone, and he won't play chess with Yinyou when he sees him.

Not to mention whether the eldest brother can play Go, according to Yinyou's judgment, even if the eldest brother can play Go, his level is estimated to be similar to his own.

So, the little guy found the third elder brother.

The third elder brother was reading in the study, and when he saw him coming and said he wanted to play Go, he asked him, "How long have you been studying?"

The little guy counted: "It's been more than a month."

The third elder brother sneered: "Dare to challenge your third elder brother for more than a month?"

"Try it."

The third elder brother looked at the half-read book in his hand, hesitated for a moment and agreed: "Then try it."

The servant came to set up the chess screen and made tea for them.Unexpectedly, Brother Qi is also very picky: "I only drink scented tea."

The third elder brother sent the eunuch beside him: "Go and make him a freshly picked chrysanthemum, clear the liver and improve eyesight. Bring him a plate of sesame crisps and peanut sticks."

"Yes."

"Wait a moment!"

Just as the eunuch was about to step down, the little guy spoke again: "The chrysanthemum tea needs rock sugar. Also, I don't like sesame seeds. I want to eat Yunpian Cake and Saqima."

The third elder brother looked at him in surprise, and said in his heart, "Did you come here to play chess with me, or did you come here specially to eat my meal?"

But this little thing is nothing, the third elder brother waved his hand and asked the eunuch to go down and make it for him, and then he opened the chess box and was ready to start.

I thought this little guy who had just learned Go for more than a month was a stinky chess player who was addicted to cooking and poor in skills, so I thought of a quick decision and sent him away.

I didn't know that it was only after the confrontation on the chessboard that I realized that this little guy was not so easy to deal with.

The reason why the third elder brother is good at mathematics is because his calculation ability and logical thinking are stronger than his brothers.

But Yinyou not only lacks logical thinking and calculation skills, but also has a strong memory and a good overall view.

From the time he put down the first chess piece, every move he took was deduced and calculated, and finally weaved into a dense net, which wrapped his opponent invisibly.

The third elder brother was careless at the beginning, and suffered a few times from him.Seeing that the two chess games he had arranged were broken, and Yinyou also ate many of his chess pieces, it was only then that he paid attention to it belatedly.

After all, Yinyou was a little young, and his study time was also a little short. He fought with his third brother for [-] rounds, once gained the upper hand, but in the end he still lost by one.

The little guy took a hard bite of Sachima, quite unconvinced: "I was hungry just now, and I didn't concentrate enough. I'll come back when I'm full!"

The third elder brother smiled noncommittally, hugged the stove and looked at him: "You can't beat me again."

"Who said that?"

"Over the years, the number of times the prince has won against me is very limited."

"Huh?" The little guy suddenly raised his head, "Do you often play chess with the prince?"

The third elder brother thought for a while: "It's not too often. If he has any troubles, he will come to me to play chess and chat."

The little guy slapped the chess screen with a slap, and the black and white chess pieces bounced one after another, and almost fell to the ground.

The third elder brother looked at him in surprise: "What's the matter?"

The little guy pouted: "Why didn't he find me?"

The third elder brother knocked him on the head: "What do you want to do with you, you are so small, you don't understand anything."

"Hmph!" The little boy got off the kang, turned his head and left.

After walking halfway, I fell back again, grabbed a Saqima on the plate, and continued walking outside.

The third elder brother asked him from behind: "If you don't say it, do you want to come again?"

"not coming!"

Because of this incident, the little guy was very depressed for several days.

He thought that the prince's elder brother was usually very busy and had little contact with other brothers, and he was the only one he liked.

It turned out not to be true, the elder brother of the crown prince often called the third brother to Yuqing Palace to play chess and have heart-to-heart talks, wondering if they would help the third brother copy books, have meals with him, and sleep on the same bed.

He went back to his yard and sat down at the stone table. The third brother read very well and was often praised by Ama, so he would not be punished for copying books.

"Ah cut!" The cold wind blew in from the other side of the wall with snowflakes, and the little guy sneezed loudly.

At the same time, the prince who was reading the memorial in Wenhua Hall also sneezed.

Eunuch He said nervously: "This slave is going to preach to the imperial physician."

The prince looked at the mountain of memorials in front of him, and waved his hand: "No need. Just give me a cup of hot tea."

Yinyou went to play chess with the fourth elder brother again, and the elder brother readily put down what he was doing and came to accompany him.

The charcoal fire in the room was fully burning, and the two brothers sat cross-legged on the kang.At the beginning, there were a few words of conversation, but the further down the line, the more intense the situation became.

As a result, the two of them fell silent, and only heard the slight sound of chess pieces falling on the chess screen.

Yinyou came over after lunch at noon, the two brothers went down to the sky and gradually pressed down, Su Peisheng led someone in to light the lamp.

The fourth elder brother smiled and said: "Xiao Qi won."

Yinyou was a little unhappy: "You let me."

The fourth elder brother picked up the teacup as a cover-up: "No."

Brother Si won the first two rounds, but he lost to Yinyou in the last round, but not much.

Yinyou raised his hand and touched his forehead: "You are sweating."

Losing again, but not so obvious, this is a technical job, can you not sweat it?

The fourth elder brother leaned forward and bent down so that his younger brother could wipe his sweat: "It's all Su Peisheng's fault, the charcoal fire is too hot."

Su Peisheng on the side hurriedly said, "Yes, it's all the servant's fault. The servant is going to prepare some snacks and apologize to the two masters."

As soon as he heard the dim sum, the little guy put the chess game behind him and urged Su Peisheng: "Go, go!"

Yinyou is fascinated by Go now, and even took several chess records from the third and fourth elder brothers to read.

The two elder brothers are not chess masters, and their level is also very limited. The books they read to him are relatively basic.

Mr. Fu, the real peerless master, despises him for being too low-level every day, and at the same time pulls him to play chess every day.

After a month like this, the little guy has made rapid progress, and the third and fourth elder brothers are no longer his opponents.The third elder brother hides when he sees him now, and never wants to play chess with him again.

The fourth elder brother has a very good mentality. If you want to play, you can play with him. Although you lose more than you win, but in this cold day, in a warm room, I can sit quietly with my brother for an afternoon, and I feel peaceful and peaceful. good.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it is another year of Laba, which happens to be Yinyou's birthday.

He came to the Palace of Compassionate Ning early in the morning to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager.

Since the beginning of winter, Kangxi has paid special attention to the physical condition of the Empress Dowager.After all, what happened last year scared him a lot, and this year he wished he could send two imperial physicians to guard the Compassionate Ning Palace.

If the imperial concubine had nothing to do, she would stay by the empress dowager's side from morning to night. When the ancestor coughed a little, she nervously asked what was wrong.

Fortunately this year, the Empress Dowager's body is fairly healthy, she doesn't even have a cold, she eats well and sleeps well, it seems that she can get through this winter in peace.

Yinyou is already eight years old, but because he grew up surrounded by everyone's care and pampering, when his brothers have shed their childishness and gradually become mature and stable, he is still as innocent as a child.

The Empress Dowager held his face: "My Xiaoqi is one year older."

The little guy is used to being coquettish: "It's still young."

The imperial concubine laughed at him: "Eight years old, still young."

"What's wrong with being eight years old, you're still a baby at eight years old."

"Yes, yes, you are also a baby."

The little guy now takes his chess record and board with him wherever he goes.

He pulled the empress dowager: "Mama Ukuma, you play a game with me."

The Empress Dowager quickly waved her hand: "Mama Ukuma can't even open a chess piece lightly, can't play it, let your mother-in-law go down with you."

So, the little guy ran to pester the imperial concubine again.

The imperial concubine teased him with a smile: "I can only play backgammon, not Go."

"..."

At this time, Kangxi came in from the outside with a snowstorm all over his body. He first greeted the Empress Dowager, then sat on the kang, and called his son to him.

Looking at him from top to bottom, before he knew it, his son had grown from the little boy who hugged his thigh and called Ama, and acted like a baby and wanted to go out with him, to a little boy with delicate features and spiritual energy in his eyes.

"Today is exactly nine years old, and I am no longer a child."

The child just said that eight years old is still a baby, but now someone tells him that he is no longer a child.

Kangxi saw that he seemed to have some doubts about his words, and then said: "The prince is so big to you, he can go to the Taimiao alone to worship the ancestors instead of me. I have already read half of the "Four Books" and "Five Classics."

The little guy nodded: "Brother Prince is amazing."

"What about you?"

"I've read half of it too," the little guy showed a cute smile, and broke his fingers to lose to him, ""The Book of Songs", "The Analects of Confucius", "University", "Shangshu", and now I have started to learn "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Rituals" Remembered."

Kangxi glared at him again: "Your younger brothers have also started school. You are the elder brother now, and the elder brother should set an example. If you continue to be mischievous and ignorant, I will not spare you."

The little guy nodded obediently: "Remember."

The empress dowager couldn't stand listening, so she hurried out to protect her sweetheart: "It's his birthday today, what are you training him for?"

Kangxi turned his head to look at the old ancestor, with another respectful and filial look on his face: "If you didn't train him, he should be sensible."

"Where is he ignorant, in my opinion, he is the most sensible, more sensible than many adults."

Kangxi didn't dare to argue with her, so he could only follow her words: "Yes, generally speaking, he's still very good."

He turned his head to look at the little guy again, with a softer expression on his face: "I have something good to say, do you want to hear it?"

As soon as Yinyou heard something good, his eyes lit up immediately: "What good thing?"

Kangxi mainly said this to the Empress Dowager and the imperial concubine: "The governor of the river has just been changed this year. The new Wang Xinming has no experience in river management before, and spring is the best time to build river embankments. Still a little uneasy, I plan to go to the lower reaches of the Yellow River to inspect the river workers."

The imperial concubine understood as soon as she heard it, the emperor could not sit still in the palace and planned to go out again - this was the second tour to the south.

Kangxi went on to say: "Since I went to inspect the river engineering in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, I will go to the south of the Yangtze River to see the people's conditions there."

The empress dowager was getting old, and it took a while to understand: "The emperor is going on a long journey."

"Yes."

"Then... when are you going to leave?"

Kangxi replied: "Let's go after the year."

He wanted to take advantage of the spring, which was the time when the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March, to go early and return early.

Yinyou asked: "Do you still want to go to Suzhou and Jiangning?"

Kangxi nodded: "Yes, we are going to Suzhou and Jiangning."

The little guy asked again: "Will Ziqing and Rong Ruo go too?"

"go."

"Then...Will Mama Ukuma go?"

Kangxi glared at him: "Aunt Ukuma is so old, how can she stand up to the bumpy road?"

The little guy shrank his neck: "Is the mother going?"

"Of course I'm going."

The little guy nodded knowingly and didn't speak any more.

This surprised Kangxi a little. He thought the little guy would go noisy and go together, but he cared a lot, and finally there was no movement.

Kangxi glanced at him, and found that he had been clutching a volume of books in his hand, and he was looking down at the moment.After a closer look, I found out that it was a chess book.

"Cough..." Kangxi cleared his throat, "Elder brother is going too."

"Oh."

"If you behave well, maybe I will take you with me."

Yinyou raised his head and smiled at his Ama: "I won't go."

"!!!"

Not only Kangxi, but even the imperial concubine and empress dowager were a little surprised this time.

Wherever there is excitement, there is Seventh Brother.In the past, the little guy always tried every means to go out with Ama, but now he took the initiative to say that he would not go.

Kangxi stood up and looked him up and down again, thinking that his son had been dropped: "Aren't you going?"

"Don't go."

"It was you who proposed to build the embankment with cement, why don't you go and see the result?"

The little guy frowned and said in surprise: "Ama, didn't you go to inspect the river engineering? You just go and go, I won't go."

"..."

Kangxi was so choked by him that he couldn't speak, good guy, this is arranging work for the emperor's father.

The old father didn't give up, and continued to ask: "I remember that you love to eat Jiangnan dim sum, Dingsheng cake, squirrel fish, steamed whitebait, and the glutinous rice balls made like Yuhua stone... don't you like them all?" ?”

Hearing this, the little guy swallowed, and the unique sweet and sour fragrance of Jiangnan emerged from the depths of his memory.Not only food, but also the scenery of Jiangnan such as Tiger Hill, Humble Administrator's Garden, Huishan, Taihu, Zijinshan, Qinhuai River, Yanziji, etc., as well as the famous Jiangnan saying "People are like the moon, bright wrists are covered with frost and snow" And the beauty also emerged together.

The little guy was tempted, so he asked, "Is the prince going?"

Of course the crown prince couldn't go. If Kangxi wanted to go out, the crown prince had to stay in the palace to handle the government affairs for him.

"Don't go."

"Then I'm not going either."

Kangxi turned his head to look at the imperial concubine at the side, but the imperial concubine kept staring at her son.

The little guy has really grown up, even though he himself refuses to admit it, it's hard for adults to notice.

But looking back and thinking about him a few years ago, he is quite different from now.

When I was young, of course, he would follow Ama Erniang wherever she went, and would not leave for a moment.

It's different now, when the parents grow up, they wish they could be free by themselves, and they are still willing to go out with their parents.

When he came, Kangxi was still full of confidence and thought, after telling this news, that little fellow Yinyou must be clamoring to go out together, and then he can ask his son to memorize a few more articles or something.

never thought...

The old father did not give up, and asked for the last time: "If you don't go, I will take someone else."

"I've already been there, you can take someone else."

"..."

Every year there is a family banquet in Laba, and Laba porridge is also eaten.

After lunch, Kangxi was supposed to go back to Qianqing Palace to prepare for the evening family banquet.But I saw that little guy Yinyou was still holding the chess record, sitting alone in the study and playing chess with himself.

Seeing that his son was so obsessed with Go, he temporarily changed his itinerary and decided to stay and play a game with him.

Yinyou has not played chess with Ama before. His usual chess friends are the third elder brother and the fourth elder brother as well as his master. The third elder brother and the fourth elder brother are gradually no longer his opponents. The master rank is too high, and he has been defeated repeatedly. , it is time to find a new opponent.

Kangxi's level of playing chess is far higher than that of the third elder brother and the fourth elder brother. In the first game, Yinyou didn't last long before losing.

Kangxi turned the chess piece upside down in his hand: "Not bad, how long have you been studying?"

The little guy stretched out two fingers: "I have been studying for two months."

Kangxi was taken aback for a moment, he thought Yinyou would talk for two years, but he didn't expect it to be two months.

It was right on second thought, that is to say, he was busy these past two months and had less time to see the little guy, so he didn't know that he was learning Go.

"It's not bad. But it's still far from challenging you, Amma."

Kangxi left to throw the chess pieces into the chess box, stood up and prepared to call Liang Jiugong to drive.

Unexpectedly, his son suddenly rushed over and stopped him: "Ama, wait a minute."

Early this morning, Kangxi took the crown prince, elder brother, third elder brother, and fourth elder brother to the Taimiao to worship their ancestors, and when they came back, they went straight to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and they hadn't had time to change their court clothes.

Yinyou quickly withdrew his hand, smiled flatteringly and said, "The next round will be just one round!"

This is the lowliness of a beginner. When you catch someone who can play chess with you, you can't wait to beg the other party to play another game, one game after another...

Kangxi lifted his robe and sat down: "Since today is your birthday, I will accompany you to another game."

The father and son played this game for a long time, and the empress dowager who was taking a lunch break in the warm pavilion on the other side got up.

Yinyou couldn't drop a chess piece for a long time, Kangxi couldn't help urging: "Is there any need to think about it? You will lose wherever you put it."

Yinyou chose a place, held the chess piece with his thumb and forefinger, and patted it heavily.

"Just here?" Kangxi was quite puzzled, "Have you thought about it?"

"No regrets," the little guy raised his chin, "I've made up my mind."

Kangxi shook his head, said a word, and couldn't help educating him: "If you let go of this small piece, you can keep the other piece."

But Yinyou's attitude is tough: "I won't give in. As long as I give up this piece, you will also force me to give up that piece. If you give in like this, in the end I will have no way to retreat, and I will be defeated."

At this point, the little guy didn't hesitate at all, and every time he made a word, he seemed confident: "As long as I hug this piece of chess, you won't be able to eat me on the other side for a while. But I can reverse it." Come here and eat your chess pieces, Ama, can you save me?"

"..."

When he moved a chess move, he counted three moves away, and every place and every change was clearly counted.

Kangxi stood there in a daze, staring straight at the chessboard without saying a word.

He seems to have received some inspiration from his son's chess moves.

In fact, when he decided to make the southern tour, he had already thought about it.

Since Galdan colluded with Tsarist Russia, he was forced to make major concessions in border negotiations.Then he can only follow Suo'etu's method and give up the Nerchinsk that the Russians asked for.

Although he couldn't swallow this breath, but the situation was stronger than others, he could only swallow this breath.

But just like what Yinyou said just now, how can the territorial issue be given up at will.If you give up this place, the opponent will make an inch of progress, and there is no guarantee that they will not continue to join hands with Galdan next time, and then come to blackmail and continue to force him to give up other places.

On the other hand, Tsarist Russia either got what it wanted and included Nerchinsk into its own territory, or the talks collapsed, watching the Qing Dynasty and the Junggar fight to the death.

In any case, the Russians are not at a disadvantage.

Even if the Qing Dynasty defeats Junggar, it will definitely hurt its vitality. At that time, he will unilaterally tear up the agreement and the expeditionary army will make a comeback. What can the Qing emperor do with him?

Just like what Yinyou said, give in and let go, in the end there is no way to retreat, a crushing defeat.

Kangxi fell into deep thought, and Yinyou didn't urge him. He sat quietly opposite him, resting his chin with his hands, and waited patiently.

The imperial concubine has been standing by to watch the father and son play chess.Of course, she was more inclined to her son in her heart, and she had been standing next to Yinyou, and she could see some tricks when she looked at it. Every time her son ate a chess piece from Kangxi, she couldn't help applauding in her heart.

In fact, the smile on his face never disappeared. It made Kangxi very unhappy to see him. During this period, he pulled her over several times, but the imperial concubine still couldn't help but stood beside her son again.

Wherever the emperor went to the harem, the concubine followed him every step of the way, wishing she could stick to him.

Only in the cousin's heart, the two sons plus the empress dowager, which one is not more important than him, the emperor.

The imperial concubine roughly guessed from his expression that he had other things in mind.The little guy was about to move around and wanted to remind Ama, but she stopped him with a silent gesture.

It wasn't until a hand was put on his shoulder that Kangxi came back from his thoughts.

He raised his head, glanced at the owner of that hand, and then at the innocent son on the opposite side with his chin resting on his face.

He has always had an unusual affection for the mother and son. Perhaps it is part of the same blood that they maintain, which always makes him separate them from the rest of the harem.

In this chess game, Yinyou lost in the end. Ama gave him the evaluation: "I want everything, and I refuse to give up anything, but my strength does not allow it. In the end, I can't grasp anything."

The little guy curled his lips: "I will challenge Ama after I study for two more months."

Kangxi snorted and said, "Okay, I'm waiting for you to challenge."

At the family banquet in the evening, Concubine Rong suddenly mentioned something in front of the Queen Mother and the Emperor.

"It is reasonable to say that the prince will be sixteen next year, and he is already an adult. Although the Ministry of Rites will consult the classics and formulate the procedures for the prince's wedding, it will take some time, but the prince cannot be left alone."

"It is reasonable to say that the status of the concubine is low, and it is not the concubine's turn to worry about it. But when the prince was young, the emperor was busy with state affairs, and the concubine was ordered to take care of the prince for a while. The queen used to be kind to the concubine, and the concubine really... "

More than ten years ago, the system of concubines in the palace was not perfect. Kangxi's wife married a lot, except for the queen of the palace, the others were all concubines, and their status was not much higher than that of the palace maids.

The queen passed away shortly after giving birth to the prince, and it was inconvenient for Kangxi to take the child alone. At that time, Concubine Rong was in favor, and she left four sons for Kangxi, all of whom died young, and there was only one little princess by her side.Sometimes Kangxi couldn't get away, so he asked Yinfeng to be taken to Zhongcui Palace for her to look after.

But this time was not long. Later, Concubine Rong gave birth to the third elder brother, and the crown prince gradually grew up, so Kangxi was able to take him out together.

In any case, during those years, Concubine Rong gave the prince some, his true maternal love, and the prince also let Concubine Rong get out of the pain of bereavement several times.

Sitting beside the Empress Dowager, Yinyou suddenly remembered that when the third brother said that the prince's elder brother was in a bad mood, he would always ask him to play chess and have a heart-to-heart talk.

The relationship between them has always been good, and it must have been accumulated since childhood.

No one in the harem is willing to worry about the prince, but others can't worry about it if they want to.After all, he is the crown prince, so if he rashly confronts the emperor and the empress dowager, it is easy to be regarded as having ulterior motives, and it may even be self-defeating.

Only Concubine Rong, who more or less had a bond with the prince as an adoptive mother and adopted son, had always had a good reputation in front of Kangxi and was a loyal and honest person.

Kangxi nodded and said with a smile, "Concubine Rong is more thoughtful."

Concubine Rong's uneasy heart finally returned to her stomach, and she just had a smile on her face, but she heard Kangxi say: "Let this matter be left to the imperial concubine."

What the imperial concubine dislikes most is the job of finding the prince's servant Gege. Concubine Hui has approached her several times for the eldest brother before, and she has been using various excuses to avoid it.

Concubine Hui had criticized her a long time ago, presumably this matter had already spread throughout the harem, but because of her status, everyone only dared to talk about it behind her back, not in front of her.

Especially those concubines who have a prince, secretly, don't know how to guess her intentions.

Now that the elder brother has left the palace to build a mansion, she really doesn't care about how many concubines she wants, and she doesn't care anymore.

I thought that Kangxi had always been in charge of the prince's affairs, and it was not her turn to worry about it.

Unexpectedly, someone now took the initiative to stand up and take care of her.

The imperial concubine sat on her own seat, lowered her head, pretending she couldn't hear, and didn't make a statement.

Concubine Rong's mention of the prince's matter at this time was not completely selfish.

Concubine Hui said long ago that when it came to elder brother's assignment to serve Ge Ge, the imperial concubine resisted and refused to cooperate.In the future, elder brothers of the sisters, please ask for more blessings.

If she can take this opportunity to discuss the matter of finding Gege to sleep for the prince, won't her third elder brother not have to count on the imperial concubine in the future?

Therefore, Concubine Rong saw that Kangxi was not displeased, and she had no intention of stepping down, she continued to fight and said: "The imperial concubine will be in charge of the entire harem, and she is busy with affairs on weekdays, and the concubines also want to share the worries for the empress."

The empress is still sitting there competing with herself.On the one hand, she told herself, just take good care of her two sons, and don't worry about other people's sons, it's thankless.

On the one hand, she really couldn't convince herself to arrange two concubines for a twelve or thirteen-year-old child. She couldn't pass her own test.

Kangxi always remembered what the imperial concubine had said to him back then, and he also knew that the imperial concubine refused to assign the elder brother to sleep with Gege because she felt that the child was too young and should grow up.

He had already made it very clear just now that the imperial concubine is in charge of this matter, who she chooses, when she chooses, and how she chooses are all her business, but Concubine Rong failed to understand the meaning of the emperor.

At this moment, Yinyou, who was sitting next to the Empress Dowager, buried his head in eating a piece of Dongpo meat, suddenly raised his head, looked at everyone curiously, and said, "Brother Prince, there are people serving in the palace. There are dozens of people waiting for you." Well. Concubine Rong, don't worry."

Concubine Rong: "..."