Chapter 553: Blood Relatives (Medium)
Changchun Garden, Shouxuan Chunyong Palace.
After everyone withdrew, only the Queen Mother and Kangxi's mother and son were left in the house.
The Queen Mother's face turned pale, her lips trembled, and she said, "Emperor, the mourning family is out of shape, this ...... This shouldn't have been mentioned, it's just ......" Speaking of this, I can't continue, I just can't stop crying.
Kangxi took two steps forward, sat down on the side of the kang, took out a handkerchief, and wiped the tears of the Queen Mother. His right hand, however, was a little inconvenient because of the wind.
Seeing that his arms were trembling, the Queen Mother couldn't bear it, so she reached out and took the handkerchief from Emperor Kangxi's hand, and lowered her head to wipe her tears.
"Emperor, it's been so long, the Empress Dowager has passed away for many years, maybe the Immortal Heaven will summon me over at any time. What happened back then...... I don't want to ask more, I just want to know where Yuyin is buried, but I can't worship her all these years, I don't know how lonely she should be...... Since entering the palace, she has rarely been out of the Empress Dowager's palace, and this harem lady is just like me......" The Empress Dowager said, her face showing sadness.
Kangxi clenched his fists vigorously, and there was an indescribable complicated look on his face, and he said in a low voice: "Didn't you bury the concubine garden, and together with the other concubines, you will be honored by your descendants." β
When the Queen Mother heard this, she shook her head and said, "Don't hide it from me, the Queen Mother made people see it back then, and what was buried inside was just clothes." The Empress Dowager also remembered this matter, but she didn't want to mention it again...... Before leaving, I didn't ask......"
Kangxi's face turned white and red, red and white, unpredictable, and finally sighed and said: "Huang Eniang, her skeletal son has been humanized, and the ashes are enshrined in Wutai Mountain...... It's going to take a day, and the two of us ......."
His eyes showed nostalgia and attachment, and the face of a woman appeared in front of him...... The Queen Mother was stunned, looked at Kangxi and said: "It's been more than forty years, you still remember, I don't know if this is a blessing for Yuyin." It's just that it's okay to say otherwise, is the Li family Yuyin's daughter or not...... Look at this eyebrow......"
Kangxi nodded, the queen mother's body shook, and said for a while: "Since you are her daughter, why don't you put it in Beijing to raise you...... Such a precious gold, entrusted to the clothing family, you ...... What a ruthless heart...... She went from the grassland to the capital, hid for half her life, and never recovered her identity until she died, her daughter, what should she do......
"I was going to take their mother and daughter back to Beijing in the name of Brother Wang, but I didn't expect it to be a difficult birth. Before she gave birth, she sent people to Beijing to deliver letters, opposing my proposal, and didn't want her children to continue her destiny and be someone else's ...... for the rest of her life" Kangxi thought of that woman's short life, and his heart was also blocked.
"Such grievances, such grievances...... Queen Mother muttered: "However, looking at the Li family, it is a blessing, and the sons and daughters are all good children...... Although he is forty-five, he looks like he is in his thirties...... This is up to her, she looks young, she was already in her twenties before leaving the palace, and she still looks like fifteen or sixteen ......"
Kangxi sat on the edge of the kang, but he was already stupid.
Her mother was the most noble woman in the world, and her father was once a hero praised by the world.
She has an older brother, but she can't tolerate the presence of this little girl. She had a sister, but she was implicated by her father, married in Mongolia, and died depressed.
Since the beginning of the landing, she was taken out of the palace and sent to Horqin, and when she came back, she was already a little girl in her teens.
Her name has the word "shade", which harmonizes with "hidden...... That year, he was eight years old and she was eleven.
She helped him tidy up his clothes and said softly: "From now on, you will be the emperor, you can't coax people anymore in the future, you have to count when you speak......
He patted his little chest and said, "Don't worry, I never coax people, when I get older, I will marry you as a queen." In this palace, you can go wherever you want to play, and you don't have to avoid people anymore......"
That year, he was twelve, and she was fifteen.
Under the red wedding tent, the dragon and phoenix candles with thick wrists, and the red hijab, a young girl in the prime of cardamom became his wife.
Outside the palace wall of Cining Palace, the young emperor in auspicious clothes muttered: "I didn't want to lie to you, I didn't want to lie to you, don't blame me in your heart......"
That year, he was sixteen and she was nineteen.
The young man who has been suppressed by the powerful ministers for many years has finally removed the obstacles and revealed the courage of the emperor.
"I am the emperor, I am the emperor, I am the lord of the Qing Dynasty, there is no one in this world who can restrain me......" The young man was full of joy, looked at her straight and said: "I am the emperor, the emperor of Chrysostom and Yuyan......"
She smiled quietly and listened quietly to his endless nagging.
What he was talking about, what she was listening to, I am afraid that they themselves are confused...... That year, he was seventeen and she was twenty.
He already has the majesty of an emperor, and gradually fades away from the youthfulness of his youth, making people feel that the power of heaven is unpredictable. But she has been assigned to marriage, and she has no fiancΓ©, and she has become a widow.
"Your Majesty, you are the emperor, your heart should be as vast as the grassland, that person is also your subject, you are the emperor......" Her voice was still so gentle, but her face was bitter.
He craned his neck, looked at the floating clouds in the sky, there was no guilt on his face, and said proudly: "I know that I am the emperor. Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. Since he is a courtier, how can he ...... How can you remember...... My ......"
That year, he was nineteen and she was twenty-two.
Xiao Bei has been absent for a long time, and in the last letter she sent, it was written, "Give birth to a man, not a prince; give birth to a daughter, do not care for Mongolia", and also mentioned that "I wish that for all generations, Mo will not be born in the emperor's family".
This is the words mentioned in reply to the parting of the two, he once said that although he could not make her the queen, he could leave the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains to the sons of the two.
If she gave birth to a boy, it would be the crown prince of the Qing Dynasty, the future emperor.
In the letter, she made a special trip to mention the queen Hesheri, "the queen is virtuous, and the heir can be the heir of the concubine...... She went, and Chenghu died the following year, he recruited concubines, and his queen was also on the same page, with a good reputation, but he felt more and more lonely...... That's forty-five years...... I can't even remember my face...... It seems to be engraved in the bones, and it seems to have long forgotten the ...... of the princess's residence, relatives get together, but everyone can't relax.
Sixteen Fujin had already sent someone to send Baoyin back to her residence with Sixteen Elder Brother in the garden, and he followed his mother-in-law and concubine over to entertain Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Although they are relatives, there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and there is something wrong in the Empress Dowager's palace, Li Shi is a little apprehensive and uneasy in his heart, and his expression is also a little restrained.
Seeing her mother-in-law look like this, Chu Yu thought about it for a while, and asked Wang Concubine: "Niangniang, there is something wrong with the Queen Mother just now, did you mistake your wife for someone else?" β
Although I couldn't understand the Mongolian language that the Queen Mother asked Kangxi just now, the two Chinese words that the Queen Mother said before seemed to be a mistake for the daughter of the deceased.
Wang Concubine was distracted, looking at Li's somewhat similar appearance to herself, and remembering the relationship with Kangxi over the years, the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became.
What Kangxi asked her the most was the interesting story before she entered the palace.
For example, she learned to do needlework with her cousin, and embroidered mandarin ducks like ducks, which made her depressed. Fortunately, my cousin explained it and added willow branches to her "duck", so that this needlework could also be seen, and she broke into laughter.
and so on, it is overwhelming, but Kangxi listens to it with relish.
In the past, the Wang family was only favored by the emperor, and there was only joy in his heart, but now it seems that there is another deep meaning in it.
Yourself, could it be that you have been a microphone?
Although she and the Li family are cousins in name, they are not related by blood.
Her aunt Wang is the original wife of the deceased old lady of the Li family, and when the two families became in-laws, the old lady of the Li family was not surnamed Li, but surnamed Jiang, and was the young master of the Changyi Wang clan in Shandong.
Although the Wang family does not need the Jiang family, it is also a scholarly family, and this family business can be regarded as a good match.
The original rural slang, "Changyi County, half of the ginger, the world does not change and the ginger is not chaotic", originally said that the Jiang family was prominent in the local area, but I didn't expect it to become a verse.
When the Eight Banners Army entered the customs and changed the world, the Jiang family died countless clansmen in order to guard Changyi. The old lady of the Li family was only in her twenties at the time, lost her father and brother, separated from his wife, and was plundered as an adopted son when the city was broken.
A few years later, when the old lady of the Li family was elected for excellence in talent, he already had his wife Wen by his side.
When the husband and wife were reunited, the old lady of the Li family felt very guilty about the Wang family, and throughout his life, he took great care of the Wang family.
Wang Concubine's father was promoted by the old lady of the Li family to be elected as an official. Later, after dying of illness in office, his wife and daughter were taken care of by the old lady of the Li family.
On the Li family's side, she is the niece of the old lady of the Li family, but she is actually the granddaughter of her adoptive father, not a blood relative.
Wang Concubine was four years older than the Li family, and they all grew up next to the old lady of the Li family.
The two not only have a good relationship, but also have a somewhat similar appearance, and when they appear hand in hand, they are often recognized as sisters.
The princess is only regarded as a sister between the two, and she treats the Li family as if she is also a sister.
Thinking of the sentence that the Queen Mother asked in a hurry, the princess was "plopping" and "plopping" in her chest, and her heart was about to jump out of her throat.
The "fifth aunt" in the mouth of the Queen Mother is the eldest princess Gulun Shuhui who died of illness in the capital in the 39th year of Kangxi?
The princess married two horses successively, but her fate was difficult, and she was a widow for half her life.
If my cousin's is really the daughter of that princess, then why do you hide your identity and keep it in the Li family...... When the Li family got married, the princess had not yet entered the palace, and the dazzling dowry, now that I think about it, there are some clues hidden...... After the changes in the Queen Mother's palace, it was not only the princess who was shocked, but also Concubine De and Concubine Yi, who also understood Mongolian.
Both of them had a lot of wonder in their hearts, but when they returned to their respective residences, they behaved differently.
Concubine De was holding the Buddha beads, sitting on the kang, and thinking for a long time. Regarding the "five aunts" mentioned by the Queen Mother, she didn't think of the eldest princess Gulun Shuhui.
Although the eldest princess Gulun Shuhui has lived in the capital for many years and is the daughter of the Empress Dowager, her relationship with the Empress Dowager is only mediocre.
When the Eight Banners entered the customs, the eldest princess married to Mongolia. The queen mother married from the grassland to the capital after she set the capital of Yanjing. Although the two are sisters-in-law and brother-in-law, they did not have much opportunity to communicate in their early years.
Besides, the eldest princess died of illness, and the cemetery camp burials were customized, and the queen mother would not ask where she was buried.
Although it has been many years, Concubine De still has some impressions of some of the secrets she heard when she entered the palace at the beginning of that year.
According to rumors, the daughter of the prince of Horqin, who was posthumously named "Concubine Hui" in the ninth year of Kangxi, entered the palace when the old emperor was ill.
When he was only a teenager, he was going to be a concubine for the old emperor, and he didn't want the old emperor to die.
The Borzigit clan was raised by the Empress Dowager and was a concubine prepared for the Lord Banzai.
But I don't know what the reason is, the name has never been decided, and then I married my subordinates, and I didn't marry and kept the widow.
The Empress Dowager was reluctant to wronged this Gege, saying that she wanted to accept this Gege as her adopted daughter, which was very courteous.
No, this Gege was short-lived, and he died of illness within two years...... Although it was posthumously sealed, there were also rumors that this Gege was not dead.
Because there was a noble girl in the Empress Dowager's palace, someone saw that the two went out of the palace together.
If the original rumors were true, then the identity of the Li family was about to come out, Concubine De held the rosary in her hand, and her emotions gradually calmed down.
At this time, I heard the sound of footsteps, and Concubine De's face was already showing a little love.
Although I haven't seen anyone yet, I can't hear that this is my son's movement.
"E-Niang'an!" The fourteenth elder brother strode in, picked the placket, and knelt down on one knee.
Concubine De hurriedly got up, stepped forward to help her up personally, and said distressedly: "There are no outsiders, what are you doing with this?" Look at you sweating, this is the school field? β
kept asking, and he was already wiping his son's sweat with a handkerchief in his hand.
Although the fourteenth elder brother said that he was already close to his age, he was about to marry his daughter-in-law and hold his grandson, but because he was a young son, he was still like a child, and said with a little coquettishness: "Eniang, it's so hot, is there a watermelon?" My son is very thirsty, and he can eat most of it now. β
Concubine De smiled and stopped her son to sit down on the edge of the kang, and said, "Look at this gluttonous look, aren't you afraid that Hongchun and Hongming will see the jokes?" β
The fourteenth elder brother just laughed, Concubine De was reluctant to refute his intentions, and ordered the palace maid to go down and prepare watermelons.
One time less, the palace maid sent the cut watermelon, and the fourteenth elder brother picked up a piece and sent it to Concubine De's mouth, saying, "E-niang will eat first, and then my son will eat it." β
Concubine De waved her hand and said, "You eat by yourself, I just drank tea from the Queen Mother." β
When the fourteenth elder brother heard this, he sent the watermelon to his mouth, and while eating, he asked casually: "E-niang came back from the Queen Mother's side?" When my son came just now, I heard that the Li family and Da Gege had asked the Queen Mother to go to peace. How did you hear that Huang Ama has also passed? β
Concubine De seemed to be smiling, and sent away several palace maids and maids in the house, and then stretched out her hand, poked the forehead of the fourteenth elder brother, and said, "You came out of my belly, what do you want Eniang doesn't know?" Don't pretend to be a calf here, just say whatever you want, don't turn these seven or eight turns! β
The fourteenth elder brother put off the watermelon peel and said with a shy face: "It's still E-Niang who knows her son, whether the son wants to ask, just E-Niang, does Huang Ama treat the Cao family really kindly, or is it just a formality...... Didn't you say that the Queen Mother was annoyed, there was no movement over there......"
Concubine De saw that the fourteenth elder brother's eyes were rolling wildly, and he looked like he was watching a good show, so she couldn't help frowning, and said, "What if the Lord is really kind to them, and what about the fake kindness?" You are already an adult, not a child, how can you easily grudge with others for the sake of those who don't want to do it? That kid from the Cao family is your niece and son-in-law, and I heard that he is still your brother-in-law's best friend, so it is ...... to be closer to you in these two times."
(To be continued)