First Prince of Qing Dynasty

The first person Tong Jia looked for was Concubine Tong.

Concubine Tong brought eleventh elder brother Yinhu over, Tong Jia frowned, and asked someone to carry him out on the spot, "Eleventh elder brother is still young, why did you bring him here? Don't be sick to him. "

Concubine Tong disagreed: "My sister treats Xiaoshi as her own, and loves him the most. Now that my sister is sick, how can he not come to visit?"

Tong Jiashi shook his head: "How can there be so much attention, the most important thing for Xiaoshi is health. Don't make fun of Xiaoshi's body. You should pay more attention."

Concubine Tong agreed one by one.

Tong Jiashi struggled to get up again, pulled out a box from the bed and handed it over.Concubine Tong was a little strange: "What is this?"

Tong Jia didn't answer, but said: "Although you and I are not the same mother, the advantage is that we have a good relationship as sisters. I know that with your temperament, you don't want to enter the palace.

"Two years ago, when you entered the palace with Erniang to say hello, you told me that everything in this palace is good and everyone envies you, but you feel that you have no freedom. You said that if you had to choose, you would rather marry a general, Accompany him to guard the border, even if it is cold and rainy outside the customs, you will be at ease."

Concubine Tong lowered her eyebrows: "Sister, what are you talking about? I was still young and ignorant."

Tong Jiashi shook her head: "It's not that you are ignorant, you are too sensible. Your biological mother died young, and she was carried to my mother's side since she was one year old. I am seven or eight years older than you. I will teach you to walk, teach you to practice calligraphy, and teach you to walk. You ride a horse. When other brothers and sisters bully you, I will stand up for you. This is my duty as a sister. But you feel that you have been favored by me for a long time."

Speaking of the past, Concubine Tong had tears in her eyes: "My sister has always been kind to me. If it weren't for my sister, how could I live so happily in the mansion. What should be done and what should not be done is all due to my sister's kindness." .”

Tong Jiashi smiled: "Look, you are like this. So you know that I asked Erniang to choose sisters for me to enter the palace. You know that I need help. You are afraid that other sisters will not be able to help me wholeheartedly, so you choose to come by yourself. "

"Sister, I also want to enter the palace. Look, I am a concubine now. I don't have to be a general's wife to be stronger? The palace is very good."

Is the palace fine?Tong Jiashi smiled wryly, what's wrong?Concubine Tong was just trying to comfort her because she was afraid that she would blame herself.

"Since you have already entered the palace, I will not say these words. I know that I am sorry for you. Fortunately, you are open-minded. With your temperament, you may be able to live without me. better."

These words made Concubine Tong's alarm ring loudly: "Sister, what are you talking about! What do you mean without you? During the time I entered the palace, thanks to my sister's care, how can I live a better life without my sister?"

Tong Jiashi just handed over the box: "Here are my savings over the years, all without any imprint, and can be used as you like."

Concubine Tong was startled: "Sister!"

Tong Jiashi raised her hand to stop her: "Don't refuse in a hurry, this is not only for you, but also for Xiao Shishi. Even if you are his mother-in-law, you can't refuse for him. There are also those in my library. Things, I can’t take them out now, I will leave a message. After I go, I will give you and Xiaoshi all except some unrestricted imperial gifts.”

If it was said that it was vague in the beginning, it is already a naked last word now.

"Sister! Sister, why are you here? Don't say that. You are just sick. We treat you when you are sick. You will be fine. There are so many imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital, and they are excellent in art. As long as you trust the imperial doctors and cooperate with them, you It will be fine."

Tong Jiashi shook her head: "My own body knows, this time I will never recover."

How dare she cooperate with the imperial physician? What if she is really cured?She can't be good!It doesn't matter if she herself dies, but what she did not only involve the prince, but the most serious thing is that it has something to do with the Heaven and Earth Association.If people find out, I'm afraid the entire Tong family will be implicated.

At that time, she will be the sinner of the Tong family!

Concubine Tong wanted to say more, but Tong Jiashi pointed it out: "You brought Xiao Shishi here, didn't you also have this in mind?"

Concubine Tong's heart skipped a beat, and she said anxiously: "Sister, I don't, I..."

"I know you have no bad intentions, you don't want me to die. But you are afraid. You are afraid that I have a chance. If I really can't make it this time, I will never see Xiao Shiyi again in the future. You take He came here to let me see him again, to make me feel at ease."

Concubine Tong's lips trembled, and she turned her face away, tears streaming down like rain.

Tong Jiashi laughed instead: "I saw it, Xiao Shiyi is fat and fat. His facial features are good, like you, and also like me. We both look good, and he will definitely be a handsome man in the future."

She took Concubine Tong's hand: "Sister, I understand that Ama and uncle have some thoughts at home. I used to have them too. At that time, I had nothing to do under my knees, and they could only wait. Since you gave birth to Xiaoshi, they have I'm afraid the thought is stronger. You have to know this in your heart."

Concubine Tong opened her mouth and nodded slightly: "I know."

"My sister knows you are smart, but I still want to tell you something. My sister couldn't see clearly before. She has experienced a lot in these years, and now she understands everything. All the wealth and glory, love and hatred are just a passing cloud. If the family and you Discussion, you must not agree.

"Little Eleven is only so big. Neither the crown prince nor the elder brother should be underestimated. In this palace, the prince has the emperor and the empress dowager, the elder brother has the concubine Hui, and the concubine Hui supports the nobleman Wei and wins over her. Concubine Yi. I'm afraid you will suffer if you can't beat them."

Concubine Tong burst into tears: "Sister, I won't fight with them."

"Yes! We don't fight with them. You just need to find a way to show your face in front of the emperor, so that the emperor will not forget about Xiao Shiyi. We don't want any more. You have to find a way to spread these ideas as soon as possible, which is also telling They, you will not be their enemy."

Up to now, Tong Jiashi can be said to have completely seen it, but it was too late.

But she was late, and my sister was not too late.She wants to make final plans for her sister and Xiao Shiyi.

"You can't put all your hopes on them. After all, they don't necessarily believe in you. If they do, they will pull you into the game and use you as a spear when necessary. In this palace, apart from the concubines, there are also the queen mother, the queen mother, and the queen mother." Empress Dowager. It's a pity that the Empress Dowager has already raised the fifth elder brother by her side, and will not raise other princes.

"The empress dowager treats the prince like a jewel like a treasure. Even if she has been serving her for many years, the seventh elder brother can only take shelter of the prince and cannot be raised in the Palace of Compassion. But there is one person, if you have the ability to be with her Make friends, let her recognize you and be willing to protect you. You and Xiao Shiyi are considered stable in the palace."

Concubine Tong paused, "Sister, you mean Lagu Su Ma?"

Tong Jia smiled and nodded: "Sister is really smart. Aunt Su Ma has been with the empress dowager for decades, and even took care of the emperor when he was growing up. The emperor was his teacher when he was young. Although she is a slave, she is better than ordinary people. Masters must be strong.

"It's a pity that Aunt Su Ma and the Empress Dowager are of the same heart and will not disobey the Empress Dowager's wishes. If I were still here, she would not talk to you. So I didn't say this before because it was useless. Now I You are about to die, but with your heart, you can give it a try.

"You don't have that much thought, Gu Su Mala will like you. It is also an honor for her to have a prince accept her knees and promise to give him retirement.

"In addition, I have some affection with the emperor. You can use it, but you also need to pay attention to the scale. Remember not to bind you and me together. When necessary, it is better to distance yourself. You have to let everyone know that even though you are My sister, but you and I are different after all. You have to figure out the scale here by yourself."

Tong Jia didn't mention one thing. She asked Concubine Tong to do this because she was afraid that if something happened one day, Concubine Tong and Xiao Shiyi would be angered because they had too deep a relationship with her.

Concubine Tong didn't know that every word and every sentence was the painstaking effort of her sister, and the sincerity and sincerity in it made her feel unmoved.Just imagine that my sister is already so ill, remember to think about her and plan for her.Concubine Tong grabbed Tong Jiashi's hand tightly, tears falling down.

"elder sister!"

She couldn't control it anymore, lying on the head of the bed, crying bitterly.

Tong Jiashi patted his back like coaxing a child.Concubine Tong went back to her childhood in a trance. She was bullied by her sisters and cried. Tong Jiashi also patted her on the back to coax her to sleep.

"Okay, stop crying."

Tong Jiashi called Chunzhi to fetch water for Concubine Tong to wash.After Concubine Tong finished packing, give the box to her: "Take Xiao Shishi back home. Come see me tomorrow."

"Sister, I will accompany you again."

"No. The emperor will come later, and I still have to talk to him."

Since she was talking to the emperor, Concubine Tong couldn't stay for a while, even if she didn't want to, she could only obey and leave.

Not long after, Kangxi really came.

Tong Jia did not call himself the emperor, but only "cousin", and he did not call himself a concubine, but "I".

"Cousin, look, the osmanthus flowers are blooming outside the window. I remember the first time I saw you was when the osmanthus flowers were in full bloom, under a osmanthus tree. I was only six years old then."

Kangxi turned his head to look out of the window, and also thought of the cute little girl he watched growing up in the past.He stretched out his hand to close the window, "You are still sick, you can't blow the wind, be careful. Don't be willful."

Tong Jiashi responded with a smile, and began to talk about the two of them from the osmanthus tree to the osmanthus cake.Kangxi just talked with her like this, and finally said: "Are you tired? Let's take a rest!"

Tong Jiashi refused, "Let me talk more while I'm still in good spirits today. I want to tell you everything in my heart. I'm afraid I won't have another chance in the future."

Kangxi scolded in a low voice: "Nonsense! There is no chance! You are only in your 20s, and there are plenty of opportunities. It's the same if you keep these words and tell me later."

Tong Jiashi shook her head: "Cousin, don't lie to me. Even if you order the imperial physician not to tell me the truth, why can't I feel it in my own body?"

Kangxi was dumbfounded.

Thinking of what the imperial physician said that Tong Jiashi might die, grief arose in her heart, but she couldn't be persuaded to rest.He was also afraid that if he didn't let her finish speaking now, she would not even have the chance to confess her last words.

"Cousin, I don't regret entering the palace for you. I only regret that I have done too many mistakes in these years. I have been blinded by the vanity. Cousin, I know you like that kind and lovely little girl in the past. I I also like her, the former self. But I am not her anymore."

Kangxi frowned: "Why not? You are still you."

"It's different. Cousin, I'm sorry. I..."

Tong Jia's nose was sore, tears fell down.

Kangxi couldn't help hugging her, and wiped it off with his hand, "In my heart, you are still the little girl from before. If I say you are, you are."

Tong Jia smiled through tears: "Okay! Cousin, can you promise me? After I go, if you think of me, please only remember my good. If I do not do well, forget it. OK?"

"What's wrong with you?"

"Yes. Back then, I was jealous of Concubine De's younger sister and urged the prince to fight with the Yonghe Palace."

Kangxi was helpless: "Several years have passed, do you still remember?"

"Of course I remember. I know I did something wrong! It's rare that my cousin doesn't care about it and is willing to forgive me."

Kangxi sighed: "It's all over."

Even if he did blame Tong Jia for this matter, but now that she is about to pass away, at such a critical moment, he can't say anything to blame.

"I'm still sorry for Yinzhen. Yinzhen was raised under my knees, but since Xiao Gege passed away, I have been indulging in sadness, and I can't forget it. I have neglected him. Fortunately, sister Defei often takes care of him and makes up for my fault. Cousin , Yinzhen did not change the jade certificate, after I go, let him go back to Yonghe Palace. The younger sister of Concubine De has lost Yinzuo, so I will return Yinzhen to him."

Kangxi thought for a while and said, "Okay."

Tong Jiashi smiled, "Cousin, my sister has a clear mind. I don't worry about having her take care of Xiao Shiyi. Yinzhen... Yinzhen has returned to Yonghe Palace, and I am not worried about her mother-in-law taking care of her." .I……"

Tong Jia raised her hand and stroked Kangxi's cheek greedily: "When I go, you are the one who worries me the most. Even though you are the emperor and have many servants serving you, I am still worried. Cousin, you promise me, you will definitely Remember to have meals on time, don’t be too late to critique papers every day, and don’t be too tired for state affairs.”

Hearing this, Kangxi was taken aback, with mixed feelings in his heart.Before that, he guessed that Yin Zuo's matter had something to do with the harem, he doubted everyone in the harem, and he also suspected Tong Jia's family.Although the concubine might take action because of fighting for favor or planning for the prince, he never felt that the concubine had the courage to collude with the Heaven and Earth Society.

But he also wondered if there were other possibilities.It's just that after investigation, all kinds of results have not found any connection between the concubine and Song Xu and the third prince Zhu.He wondered if he had been the emperor for a long time, and he was too suspicious.But Yinzuo's matter involved too much, and he finally left a layer of worries in his heart.Therefore, in the past month, he has not entered the harem.

Until the servants came to report, Tong Jia was seriously ill and there was not much time left.

Listening to Tong Jia's recounting the past, Kangxi's memory drifted back to many years ago, and hearing Tong Jia's words are all for him, which is even more moving.The worries in my heart gradually faded away.

"Cousin, it is said that life is boundless. I hope you will always be safe and healthy. If there is a bridge of Naihe, I will wait for you. Even if it is ten thousand years, I will wait for you."

Kangxi hugged Tong Jiashi even tighter.

After the two warmed up, Chun Zhi came in with a decoction, and Tong Jiashi pushed Kangxi out.Kangxi refused.

Tong Jiashi said: "I used to read stories in history books and heard that Mrs. Li was seriously ill and didn't want to see Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty again. I didn't understand it at the time. Now I understand. Cousin, I must be ugly now, right? This medicine is too Bitter, it tastes even worse when you drink it. After you drink it, you will still have the smell of medicine on your body, which is smoky."

"I don't care."

"But I care. Cousin, let me be self-willed for a while, I don't want you to see such a bad side of me. Please!"

How could Kangxi refuse to bring a begging letter, he could only sigh and obey her.

After Kangxi left, Tong Jia's mind relaxed, and she collapsed on the bed, as if the two words she said today had exhausted all her strength.

Chun Zhi hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, "Your Majesty!"

Tong Jiashi looked at Chun Zhi with deep eyes: "Chun Zhi, how many years have you been with me?"

"The servant has been serving the empress for 15 years."

"15 years!" Tong Jiashi murmured.

Chunzhi didn't know why, so he persuaded him: "Your Majesty, drink the soup and medicine and rest for a while."

Tong Jiashi glanced at the decoction: "You know that, don't you?"

Chun Zhi's hand holding the bowl trembled, almost spilling the soup, "Niang Niang?"

"I know you've figured it out."

It was discovered that she had never taken the medicine, and she was found to have poured out the medicine secretly.

Chunzhi raised her eyes, met Tong Jiashi's deep gaze, shuddered all over, plopped down on her knees, but didn't say a word, as if letting Tong Jiashi dispose of her.

Tong Jiashi opened her mouth, and suddenly her heart softened.

She seemed to recall the past, Chunying and Chunzhi both took care of her since childhood and accompanied each other.In spring, she wants to pick flowers, and the two help her hold a ladder to look out for the wind; in summer, she wants to ride a horse, and the two prepare clean water handkerchiefs for her to wipe off her sweat; The two burned the stove to make tea for her.

Later, she entered the palace.The two followed into the palace, and from then on the palace walls were locked, wasting their lives.

She knew that killing Chun Zhi was the best way.In the past few years in the palace, it's not that she hasn't done cruel things.But at this moment, when she was about to die, she couldn't do anything.

Tong Jiashi turned her head and looked at Chun Zhi in a daze: "How much did you guess?"

But Chun Zhi said: "The servants didn't guess anything, and they don't know anything. No matter who they are, the servants only have this sentence. The servants will not give them the opportunity to use the servants."

Tong Jia's heart was shocked, and Chun Zhi smiled softly: "Mother, Chunying can go to death calmly, why can't the servant?"

"you……"

"Chun Ying was able to leave without worries because she was alone and all her relatives had died. The slaves are not like her. But the slaves left home to serve the mother since childhood, and have a estranged relationship with them. Furthermore, the slaves' parents are dead, and they are uncles. The aunt raised her. Although the uncle and aunt did not abuse her, she also sold the slave and maid, and exchanged the slave for a sum of money for the cousin to marry.

"Later, the servants had a great fortune and met the empress. These years, the servants also shared a part of the rewards from the empress. The slaves have paid off the care of the past few years. The empress, although the slaves have relatives, but It's no different from having no relatives. The slaves are the same as Chunying, they have no worries."

Tong Jiashi looked at her, and his heart turned a thousand times, it was extremely uncomfortable.

In her life, she did many things right and many things wrong.She failed to have Kangxi's dedicated affection, and failed to win the love of the concubines in the harem, but she was lucky enough to have two girls who were willing to fear life and death for her.

Chunying and Chunzhi will do this, because she has been kind to them all.Needless to say, Chunying, she thought back carefully, when she met Chunzhi, it was not the first time Chunzhi was sold.The first master she met was not good, they punched and kicked her, and always looked at her lewdly and gloomyly, waiting for her to attack when she grew up.

It's a pity that the owner's family likes to gamble and lost all their property, so they want to sell her to a gambling house to pay off the debt.The master's family is not a good person, so how can a gambling house be a good place to go?Chun Zhi knelt on the street, begging the passers-by to buy her and give her a way out.No one dared to provoke the gambling house, they gave way one after another, but the Tong family was not afraid.

It was at this time that Tong Jiashi stood up.

Tong Jiashi recalled in a daze that she was really a good girl in the past.She will donate food to beggars, go to the city gate to give out porridge, and draw swords to help when encountering injustice.Chunying and Chunzhi regard her as a benefactor, a god who rescued them from the sea of ​​suffering.

What about now?Is she still?

What has she done all these years after entering the palace?How did she get to where she is today step by step!

"Spring branch!"

Tong Jiashi stretched out his hand, and Chun Zhi held it, with tears in his eyes, but a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Mother, if you must go, please go at ease."

Tong Jiashi couldn't hold back anymore, tears streaming down her face.She was already seriously ill and weak, and she passed out after crying for a while.Another group of people in Chengqian Palace turned their backs on their backs.

Kangxi went back and forth, seeing that Tong Jia's situation was more serious than expected, and he was even more worried.Thinking of what Tong Jiashi said to him, I feel very uncomfortable.Back in Qianqing Palace, he looked at the bright moon outside the window and asked, "Do you think the imperial concubine can survive this time?"

Only Liang Jiugong was by his side, so he was the one who asked this question.

How about Liang Jiugong?He could only say: "The imperial concubine and empress are auspicious people and heavenly faces, and they will surely turn bad luck into good luck."

Kangxi frowned, with a heavy expression on his face: "A few years ago, the imperial concubine also suffered a serious illness. I decreed to restore her to the position of imperial concubine. To rejoice, she gradually improved after that. Tell me this time, if I Doing the same, will it work?"

Liang Jiugong was shocked, and he didn't answer, but asked: "Does the emperor want to call the Minister of Rites into the palace?"

Kangxi looked in the direction of Chengqian Palace, his expression changed several times.Tong Jiashi is his cousin, and there was a lot of warmth between them.In addition, the Tong family is his mother family after all.Now that the Tong Jia family is about to die, if they can be granted the posthumous position, it will not only comfort the Tong Jia family, but also elevate the status of the Tong family again.

only……

The figure of Yinfeng flashed in Kangxi's mind inexplicably.When he canonized Empress Xiaozhao, he didn't think much about it, but now, he hesitated.

If Tong Jia is the imperial concubine, even if she is the same vice queen, there is still a world of difference.If officially sealed, she will be the aunt of all the princes and daughters in the palace.

It is Yinfeng who also calls Huangerniang.also……

Kangxi was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "I think about it again. You have never heard what I just said."

Liang Jiugong lowered his expression: "Yes."

Chengqian Palace.

Tong Jia's condition worsened day by day, and she was more sleepy than awake.In the end, even the imperial physician stopped prescribing prescriptions, since there was no cure, and it meant preparing for the funeral.Even so, the will of Li Hou has not yet been made.

Tong Jiashi closed her eyes, and a sneer curled up at the corner of her mouth. After all, she overestimated herself.Fortunately, she saw it clearly and never pinned all her hopes on it.She also stayed behind.If you can't seek canonization during your lifetime, you must always seek posthumous canonization.It's not that she doesn't know that even if they are all sealed, there is still a gap between life and death.But she ran out of time, and she couldn't ask for the former.

"Chunzhi! Do you remember what I told you earlier?"

Chun Zhi nodded: "Your maidservant remembers."

"After I die, you can do as I say."

Chunzhi agreed, and Tong Jiashi closed his eyes slowly and feebly.She is too tired, and she is barely holding on these days, just to wait for a result.It's a pity that Kangxi is so heartless. Looking back on the two people's love in the past, now that she is going to die, he doesn't even want to give her any comfort.Don't you feel uneasy watching her die?How ironic.

Tong Jiashi sneered lightly, that's all.She couldn't hold it anymore and wanted to rest.

My Majesty, I hope that in the next life, I will never see you again.