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What Yingbin said made Twenty-Twenty couldn't help but squint her eyes.

"What Sister Hou said is interesting. How come it turns out that Sister Hou uses Queen Xiaoshu to measure our friendship?"

Concubine Ying smiled softly, "Empress Xiaoshu passed away, and I lost my use in the heart of the Imperial Concubine, so the Imperial Concubine has distanced herself from me, isn't it?"

Twenty-two glanced at Xinggui. Xinggui hurriedly removed all the people at the door, closed the red, silver and vermilion-walled palace door himself, and stood guard by the door himself.

Only then did Twenty-Twenty smile. His fingertips gently slid on the piping of the cuffs, feeling the texture of the colorful embroidery, as if he was using it to sort out people's hearts.

"How does Sister Hou think I select and employ people? When I select people, I never force them to go; when I employ people, I employ people who share the same hatred and hatred."

"Why, it turned out that I was wrong? In my sister's heart, it turns out that I don't have any hatred for Queen Xiaoshu at all?"

N220 deliberately paused for a while and just looked at Concubine Ying quietly, "...Why, could it be that Mrs. Hou's injury and the death of our sixth princess were not because of Queen Xiaoshu, but because there was something hidden inside?"

Concubine Ying's expression changed, "What is the Imperial Concubine talking about?"

221 smiled and shook his head, "I am speaking out of control, don't blame Sister Hou. In fact, I am not insinuating anything, I am just thinking that Sister Hou is a woman and a mother, and her mother was injured and her daughter was killed. As long as it is an individual, and

How can you not take revenge?"

"That's natural!" Yingbin stared at Twenty-Twenty, "Then what did the Imperial Concubine mean by what she just said?"

Twenty-two shook his head gently, "Every morning when the emperors get up, they must first read the "Records" of the past emperors, or the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", that is, they must learn from the predecessors and find out what they should learn from.

, or should be admonished.”

"As for me, since I want to command the Sixth Palace, I should also do something like this. The emperor is looking at the deeds of the previous emperors and even the kings of the past dynasties, so I should understand the stories of the harems of each dynasty and each generation in the past history.

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"It's just a pity that we are all women, and the records of women in serious history books are limited. If you want to know more, you have to read some miscellaneous books. What are the notes of literati, novels and strange stories, and those copied by unofficial historians?

Naturally, it is inevitable that there are truths and lies, so when I look at some of them, I don’t dare to take them seriously.”

Nian Twen raised her eyes quietly and stared at Concubine Ying, "From those books, I discovered that in the harem throughout the ages, there were some concubines who served their own purposes, either to invite favors, to control enemies, or for their mother's family. It was once that she

Have you ever hesitated to sacrifice your own child’s life!”

"Just like Wu Zetian, isn't it written in those unofficial histories that such a great empress once had to strangle her own daughter to death in her infancy?"

Yingbin was shocked.

Nian Twen sighed, "Sister, tell me, are there really stories in the harem about killing one's own children for one's own sake? Those are all conjectures of literati after all, right?"

After Twenty-Twenty said this, he said nothing else and just stared at Yingbin.

However, Concubine Ying gradually couldn't sit still. She stood up and said with a pale face, "...Although my illness is much better, it is not completely cured yet. Please forgive me, the Imperial Concubine, but I would like to retire and rest."

Nian Twenty nodded with a smile, "Of course it should."

Twenty-two raised his voice, "Xinggui, give me a gift for your concubine Ying. I have asked everyone in the Yanxi Palace to serve concubine Ying well. If anyone dares to be lazy at all, don't blame me for punishing her severely!"

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After a while, Xinggui came back to reply and whispered, "When Yingbi went out, she stumbled and fell to the ground... When she got into the sedan chair outside the palace gate, her whole body was like a piece of paper.

It looks like it will collapse if the wind blows at any time."

Twenty-two said softly, "It's good that she still knows that she has a guilty conscience. At least it shows that she still has a trace of conscience."

Xinggui frowned slightly, "Master, what you mean is... that the affairs of Madam Hou and the Sixth Princess were also related to her?"

Nian Twen looked up at Xing Gui quietly, "Fifth Princess and Qiqi... Where did the acne come from? It has been a mystery all these years."

Xinggui was also slightly surprised.

Originally, I thought that because the royal brothers and princesses all had to be vaccinated at an early age, the hospital had ready-made acne vaccines. The vaccine itself was the poison of acne, and it was the acne scab on the person who originally had the acne.

Since all the royal descendants in Beijing must be vaccinated at a young age, the amount of vaccine stored in the Imperial Hospital is naturally huge. As long as you bribe someone in the Imperial Hospital, it is not difficult to obtain the vaccine.

It’s just that after all, vaccinia cures diseases, not kills people. Therefore, when handling vaccinia, great attention is paid to propriety. The weight of acne scab used in vaccinia must be lighter than that of normal diseases.

Qi Qi just paid it back, after all, she was young and weak, so she couldn't bear the slightest bit of illness; on the other hand, the fifth princess back then was already ten years old, and she had already been vaccinated against pox when she was a child, so why did she suffer from it?

Can't you survive the vaccinia that hospitals use to treat illnesses?

Unless, the poison that causes pox is not the carefully weighed vaccine in the hospital, but comes from elsewhere. What harmed Qiqi and Fifth Princess is probably not the weight of the vaccine, but the fatal disease.

Kind of quantity.

"And in our institute, in the years before Princess Qiqi and Fifth Princess fell ill, only one child died in infancy, and that was Yingbi's Sixth Princess..."

Xinggui was shocked as she thought about it, "Didn't the age when the Sixth Princess died happen to be the age when acne is most likely to occur?!"

No. 22 nodded, "They all said that the Sixth Princess was very hot that day, and her little face was red. But originally she thought it was the Dragon Boat Festival, and the child was so happy that she ran around here and there, so she was very hot.

Only after seeing her did the mothers think of taking her to the garden for a walk."

"The fever on the child's body, later we thought that Queen Xiaoshu had done something to her and deliberately fed her simmered realgar wine. When the realgar wine is simmered, it becomes something like arsenic. If we feed the child and eat it, she will die.

It’s a highly poisonous substance that has no medical treatment. From the outside, it’s just realgar wine, and no one thinks it’s harmful to people.”

Xinggui nodded.

Twenty-two sighed, "But when I look back and think about it carefully, Xinggui, tell me, that child's whole body is hot and his face is red... Could it be that it's just acne?!"

Xinggui also exclaimed, "If the Sixth Princess gets acne, and someone hides the Sixth Princess's underwear, or the acne scars, etc., and seals them carefully... then even after a few years, it is possible to call her the young princess again.

They were infected!"

"Back then, we all tried our best to find out the origin of the acne from outside, but we were so sorry that we couldn't find anything real!"

Recalling what happened back then, although Nian and Twenty was heartbroken, she was able to face it calmly.

The severity of pox has always been what the Qing royal family feared the most. Over the years, countless young royals have died from pox.

The second son of Emperor Taizu Nurhaci, Prince Li Daishan, had three sons who died of pox; the twelfth son of Emperor Yingjun Wang Azige’s two wives and concubines both died of pox infection in the capital in March of the sixth year of Shunzhi.

Prince Duduo of Yu, the fifteenth son of Emperor Taizu, also contracted the pox epidemic in March of the sixth year of Shunzhi and lost his life. He was only thirty-six years old.

There was also Master Shunzhi, who originally had eight sons and six daughters, of whom there were about four princes. Five of the princes' daughters died before they reached the age of eight, more than half of them, and the first cause of death was pox!

Because of this, the royal family has always avoided acne. Emperor Kangxi once said in his later years: "I didn't have acne when I was a child. I had my nanny guard me outside the Forbidden City, and my parents never had sex for a day. In the past sixty years, I

I'm sorry." It can be seen from this that Emperor Kangxi left the palace to "avoid acne" when he was young because he was afraid of acne. However, the dignified prince had to be raised in the minister's home and was not loved by his parents for a long time. This became a problem.

This was the biggest regret in Emperor Kangxi’s life.

However, despite this, Emperor Kangxi still did not escape the plague of acne when he was two years old. Fortunately, after the outbreak of acne, Emperor Kangxi saved his life, and even got the chance to inherit the throne. After escaping the disaster of acne,

, Kangxi moved back to the Forbidden City when he was young, but the shadow of acne still shrouded him all his life.

Even a sage, a warrior, such as Emperor Kangxi could not escape the clutches of acne, let alone raising a princess in the palace who is weaker than a boy, how could she go away?

Twenty-Twenty slowly said, "...an ambitious mother, when she learns that her only child has developed acne and is seriously ill, she may not be able to keep the child. Do you think this mother will simply give it a try?"

Treat your child's life as a pawn and a weapon to protect your future?"

Xinggui sneered, "Although it sounds too ruthless, but if she really planned it like this, then she really succeeded, right? Originally, heirs were the greatest guarantee for advancement in the harem, and her six

The princess passed away, but after the sixth princess passed away, she got all the titles and positions she deserved."

Twenty-Twenty sighed, "I was just making assumptions in my heart. If she hadn't said what she said today, I wouldn't have pried her like this."

"It's a pity that I was just speculating and probing, but if she really reacted like that...then this guess becomes more or less solid in my heart."

Xinggui became a little nervous, "If she is really such a person, the master should be more careful about her! If she failed to get what she wanted from the master today, she will definitely plan to bite him back!

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Nian and Twenty nodded, "...pay close attention to everyone in the Yanxi Palace."

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Concubine Ying returned to Yanxi Palace and lay down for a long time before she recovered.

She was already weak in energy and blood, so when she was so nervous, she became dizzy. It felt as if death was approaching.

She was afraid of this feeling, and even more afraid that she would pass away without getting what she wanted in this life.

Xingdao hurriedly brought up the cooked medicine and carefully served Yingbi to take it.

Yingbi vomited before taking two sips. People with both qi and blood deficiency could not even drink water before their dizziness subsided completely.

After such a torment, Yingbi's face turned as white as paper, and she could only hug the pillow and lean back.

After hearing the news, Lord Yu rushed over to say hello, and Yingbi gritted her teeth and said, "Don't ask her to come in, don't let her see my appearance... I don't want her to be proud and want to get past me!"

Xinglian suppressed a sigh and obeyed the order to stop her outside. He only said that Yingbin had gone to bed, thank you Lord Jade.

The noble man left, and Yingbin gritted her teeth as she looked at the figure of the noble man outside the window.

"...In the past, when Empress Xiaoshu was still alive, she was so good to me. She promised me the title of concubine but the treatment of the title of concubine. She also said that the emperor himself wrote about me in his letters home.

'Concubine Ying', it shows that the emperor already has the intention of promoting me to the title of concubine."

"But when Queen Xiaoshu was gone, she never mentioned it again! Not only did she not mention it, she also asked a new little hooves to be placed in my palace! What is the title of the noble lady, and my title?

The titles are exactly the same? What’s more, the Jade Lady has the shadow of me in the past?! She wants to use the new person to disgust me and let me know that I am no longer in my prime..."

"With such a little hoof guarding my palace, even if the emperor thinks of me and comes to see me, I'm afraid he will only be attracted by that little hoof!"
To be continued...