Yongzheng period

Yu squinted comfortably and leaned on the imperial concubine's couch, while Zijuan rubbed her legs carefully.Yongzheng was sitting across from him, criticizing papers and staring at Daiyu. Just now he volunteered to give Daiyu a massage, but he was kicked out because of his poor technique.

Yongzheng saw that her body was finally rounder due to pregnancy, and there was some baby fat on her face, which was really cute.Yongzheng was so itchy when he saw it, he smiled and stepped forward while he was not paying attention, and twisted it, causing the beauty to glance angrily.

"Cough," Yongzheng coughed lowly, and said with a smile, "I see that you are finally fatter."

"Does the emperor despise his ministers and concubines for getting fat?" Daiyu curled her lips, and then remembered Baochai's appearance when she was pregnant with the seventh elder brother, so she couldn't help but sneered, "It's good that the emperor didn't look at the appearance of the nobleman before, otherwise ah--"

Daiyu raised her voice, and gave Yongzheng a look of "you think"——Yongzheng shook his head with a wry smile——Baochai's body in the late pregnancy is really "round", and she was originally born rich, but later , the double chin can be clearly seen on the face without a smile, and has been secretly ridiculed by many concubines.

After a woman is pregnant, her mind is very easy to be unstable, so Yongzheng said kindly, "You are now a noble concubine, why bother with a noble person."

Daiyu pursed her lips when she heard the words, she remembered that weird dream again, but swallowed the words, and said, "I will not care about her."

Yongzheng picked up the teacup and saw her hesitating to speak, he couldn't help feeling surprised, just about to ask, but saw Su Peisheng bowed in and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, Miss Songzhi from Yikun Palace came to report and said yes Nian's concubine is very bad."

Yongzheng gave a sudden pause, and in a trance, the teacup in his hand was accidentally knocked over to the ground.

【38】

The pace of the entire five years of Yongzheng was too fast for people to keep up.

First, there was an accident in the Tong family, and the previous dynasty was in turmoil; then there was news in the palace that the empress had lost power and avoided living in Changchun Garden, and the most favored Master Hui was pregnant; Princess Wen Yi's biological mother, concubine Cao, and concubine Nian passed away.

When Yongzheng rushed to Yikun Palace in a hurry, Nian Shilan's eyes were already confused.

Songzhi lay on the side of the bed, clutching her hand tightly, and cried without regard for etiquette, "Mother, please hold on! The emperor has come to see you!"

Hearing this, Nian Shilan raised his arm with difficulty, groping for something in the air——Yongzheng grasped it tightly, stepped forward and said calmly, "Shilan, I'm here to see you."

"Your Majesty..." Nian Shilan also clenched Yongzheng's fingers tightly with his backhand, with a frighteningly strong strength.She squinted her eyes desperately, trying to see the face of the man she had loved all her life through her cloudy eyes for the last time, her voice was suffocated and weak, "Huan... Huan... Xiang."

"What..." Yongzheng was startled, and just as he wanted to get closer to hear it more clearly, Zhou Ninghai, who had been kneeling all this time, staggered to his feet, also bursting into tears, "Your Majesty! It's Huan Yixiang... Slave, let's go get some... Madam, smell it!" After saying that, he ran to the incense burner and lit the wafting fragrance.

As if smelling the fragrance that she was obsessed with, Nian Shilan's expression also eased.Her hand came down and grabbed the corner of Yongzheng's clothes, showing a reassuring smile, and said vaguely, "Your Majesty... here, I... just,... I, of..."

This time Yongzheng heard clearly. He looked at the rare and purest smile she showed when she was dying, and he felt sore in his heart. He comforted her and said, "Yes, it is only for you. Except you, no one else should think about it." need."

Hearing his words, Nian Shilan was stunned at first, then tears rolled down her face, panting like convulsions—Yongzheng was surprised that she was so thin—fingers also slipped from the corner of Yongzheng's clothes The edge slid down.

"Where is the imperial physician! Imperial physician! Get over here!" Yongzheng supported her body, the corners of his eyes were red with anxiety.

As soon as the imperial physician ran over from the side hall, Yongzheng heard Songzhi beside him yell out a particularly stern cry from his throat, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Don't leave your servants behind..." Immediately afterwards, there was a ringing sound all around. There were cries one after another, and the sobbing of the little maid.

Yongzheng was still holding the warm body in his arms tightly, he froze his body, he didn't dare to lower his head to look, he felt his throat was very dry in an instant, and he couldn't say a word.

The unlucky imperial doctor who rushed over boldly stepped forward to feel the pulse of Concubine Nian, and then raised his voice, "Concubine Nian has passed away——"

As soon as he finished shouting, he was kicked out of the chest by Yongzheng who was furious beside him, his eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth, "Get out!"

The imperial doctor rolled around before he could barely stop, but he didn't dare to really get out of the way. Regardless of the pain in his body, he tremblingly said, "The emperor calms down—! Excuse me for my poor medical skills—"

Yongzheng took a deep breath violently, and said another sentence with a blank face, "Get out."

The imperial doctor felt as if he had been pardoned, and ran out tremblingly, rolling and crawling.

Yongzheng took a long breath, then lowered his head to look at her face after death, hugged her tightly subconsciously, and said in a low voice, "You all go down, I have something to say to my concubine Nian alone."

Hearing this, Su Peisheng struggled to dissuade him and swallowed his words, and said softly, "Hey."

After everyone retreated, Yongzheng inexplicably remembered the frail figure of his old concubine, and didn't know what to say for a moment.In the end, he smelled the fragrance of Huanyi, stroked the top of her hair, and said slowly with an unclear tone, "It's really rare to see you so stable... In the next life, don't join the royal family again."

Half an hour later, Yongzheng walked out calmly.He looked at Song Zhi who still had a mournful face and said, "Your mother...have you left any words before?"

Songzhi lowered her head, "Your Majesty wanted to say something, but in the end she said 'whatever you say is meaningless', so she never left anything behind."

Yongzheng's eyes moved when he heard the words, and he sighed, "How can you say... whose fault is it..." He thought for a while, and then said to Songzhi, "Your mother also loved Wen Yi before she was alive, you wait If you want, go and take care of the princess."

"My servant thanked the emperor for his kindness," Song Zhi said, "It's just that this servant just wants to guard this Yikun Palace."

"Forget it," Yongzheng sighed again, "You were originally a first-class court lady by Shilan's side, but now I have promoted you to be the aunt in charge of Yikun Palace."

"My servant thanked the emperor Long En."

Seeing Yongzheng striding forward again, Su Peisheng trotted after him, "Your Majesty, where are you going?"

Yongzheng didn't turn his head back, and said with suppressed anger, "Go to the Palace of Compassion and Ning! Greetings to my dear mother!"

In the Palace of Mercy Ning, the biggest dispute broke out between the Empress Dowager and Yongzheng. The two almost tore their faces apart. Every sentence of the Empress Dowager pierced Yongzheng's heart like a knife.

"The emperor doesn't need to question Aijia in such a hurry, how secret is the matter of the former empress! Nian's concubine, a sinful concubine, has been neglected in the Kunning Palace for a year, and she still has such means. If Aijia still keeps her, isn't it the harem disaster!"

"Since the incident of Huan Yixiang, the Nian family has made a wrong step! The emperor can guarantee that the Nian family will have no complaints in his heart? Moreover, the Nian family was arrogant and domineering in the early years, so that he bought and sold officials and ranks, which offended many former officials. With the concubines in the harem. The emperor took great pains to let Nianshi spend the rest of the day in peace, I am afraid that her other concubines will feel uneasy! If things go on like this, where will the harem and the former court be safe?!"

Finally, the queen mother said coldly, "Even if the Ai family didn't deal with that Nian clan, seeing that Nian clan can join forces with other concubines to overthrow the queen after a year of silence, the emperor asks himself, will you trust Concubine Hui like you do?" Nianshi? Even if it's just suspicion from the emperor, it's enough to destroy anyone."

Yongzheng seemed to have been hit in the head, he was speechless, but his heart was full of anger.In the end, without saying anything, he turned around and walked away.

Behind her was the queen mother who murmured exhaustedly, "Emperor, the glory of Aijia, besides you, there are only Wuya clan and Ulanara clan..."

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Shortly after the death of Concubine Nian, Concubine Hui gave birth to a daughter in the Changchun Palace at full term, with the fifth tooth.Yongzheng immediately gave the name "Hejia" and added the title of "Princess Gulun", and the honor and favor are still higher than Princess Wenyi.

And in the first month of the sixth year of Yongzheng, the Forbidden City sent away a concubine who was extremely mournful after her death. It was buried in the side hall of the tomb of the concubine Qi in the Tailing Concubine Garden Mausoleum.

Later, Yongzheng ordered Concubine Jing to raise Princess Wenyi.Wen Yi was only five years old, and he only had a superficial image of the people and affairs around him. When he first entered the Xianfu Palace, the concubine Jing was a bit cautious, but as time went by, he gradually became lively. If given.

As for the seventh elder brother, the queen mother and Yongzheng each took a step back: the queen mother can adopt the seventh elder brother, but respectful people must be able to visit them from time to time.

On the day when the imperial concubine of Dunsu stroked her spirit, Yongzheng stood on a high place facing the wind and snow and looked down, seeing snow everywhere.Yongzheng suddenly remembered that when Nian Shilan first entered the palace, it was also on a snowy winter day. At that time, she was just a naive and delicate girl, and her smile was more beautiful than that of peony flowers in full bloom.

But she later entered the palace as a 'Concubine Hua', was reduced to a 'Concubine of the Nian', and was even named an 'Imperial Concubine' after her death, but she was all in such a cold winter.

"emperor--"

Yongzheng followed the prestige, but it was Daiyu who came looking for him with a lot of things in his hands.

Daiyu looked at his profile, but said nothing seriously.Yongzheng was uncomfortable being looked at by her, and heard her 'puchi' again, then carefully put the cloak on Yongzheng's body, and put the stove in his hand, with gentle eyes.

Then she opened an umbrella, didn't say anything, just looked at it silently with him.