"What do I mean?" Wen Xi raised her eyebrows and asked, brushing her loose temples with her bare hands, "The Emperor knows."
Kangxi was not surprised by Wen Xi's answer, and looked slightly helpless, "Forget it, I will reject the Queen's wife for you another day."
Living in Chengqian Palace, life was not boring. Yu Ludai often came to the palace, and Wan Jing would also bring Hongshu and Nuan'er to say hello.
It was getting colder in autumn, but it was not yet time to use charcoal, so Zhuer added Tangpozi to the warm quilt, changed the water in the middle of the night, and kept it warm all night long.
The days passed quietly, and when I was free, I learned how to tie knots with Zhu'er. She knew many tricks, and Wen Xi was not afraid of not learning. On this day, Yu Ludai came to the palace with a sign to say hello, and Wen Xi was on the couch.
Sitting on the table, there was a large box with red peonies beside him. Inside were several newly tied double wedding knots. Yu Ludai looked a little envious and kept holding them in his hands, playing with them and saying: "Put it on again."
A jade pendant made by Yuanyang and Yuan Yuan would be perfect."
Wen Xi finished the knotting and was eating the bird's nest when she said slowly: "If you like it, you can just take it back and tie it yourself."
Yu Ludai never knew what politeness was, especially in front of Wen Xi. He put it in his sleeve without saying a word, "Eighteenth brother likes to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake very much."
Wen Xi gave a faint hum, "Little Shiba was born in the season when osmanthus is fragrant. Now that she is teething, she loves to eat sweet and delicious snacks."
The one on the bed with his face covered with cake crumbs is her son Xiao Shiba. The one crawling around on the floor with his bare white and tender little butt is her granddaughter Tuojin, and then her granddaughter E Niang, Yu Ludai, this damn girl is right there.
Sitting on the embroidered pillar at the head of the bed, he teased Xiao Shiba with a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his hand.
"What's the matter with you coming to the palace again?" Wen Xi looked at Yulu Daiyitong carefully. She lost weight so quickly after giving birth, um, it's even darker. Just thinking about it with her toes, she knew that she went to Kangxi Tete
She rode a horse on the village as a reward and had a lot of fun.
"Mother!" Yu Ludai pouted, "I don't want to go into the palace. My daughter is specially here to accompany you. I'm afraid you'll be bored! That's why I brought Xiao Jin'er with me!"
"Hey!" Tuojin, who was crawling around on the scarlet red phoenix Chaoyang carpet, uttered a few words in alien language, as if echoing her mother's words.
Tuojin. This is the Manchu language, meaning peacock. If you think about this name with your toes, you will know that it was given by Kangxi! The gentle name is swan, the daughter is a jade bird, and the granddaughter is a peacock. They are all birds.
.There is no human being.
On the day his granddaughter was born, Kangxi, the grandfather, rudely deprived Cao Yong of the right to name his daughter. With a stroke of a pen, he named his daughter Tuojin! Cao Yong even made a special note of gratitude for this, and privately named his daughter Tuojin.
According to the order of this generation, the maiden name was Jinyu. Yu Ludai was always called Xiao Jin'er.
Xiao Jin'er is only four months younger than Xiao Shiba and can't walk yet. But like her mother, she has well-developed motor cells and is already crawling smoothly. Her limbs like lotus joints are waving like a rowing boat, and her speed is very fast.
It looks like she walks a little faster than her little uncle.
Wen Xi couldn't stand Yu Lu Dai's attitude as if he was raising sheep as his adopted daughter, so she ordered Zhu'er: "Pick Jin'er up, it will be bad if she bumps into her."
"It's okay!" Yu Ludai said with a smile, "There is a wet nurse watching! Xiao Jin'er is also smart herself. Didn't E Niang see that she was only crawling on the carpet? That's because the other places are not soft!"
Wen Xi was a little speechless, remembering that she once left Yu Lu Dai on the grass in space and let her crawl around. It can be seen that Yu Lu Dai inherited the skill of raising girls from Wen Xi.
"I'm going to the palace to recuperate in two days, will you go?" Wen Xi straightened up slightly and asked.
Yu Ludai hesitated, his eyes looked uncertain, and after thinking for a long time he said: "I still won't go!" Then he looked at Tuojin who seemed to be tired from crawling on the carpet and was sitting there sticking out his tongue, so he went to hug him himself. Come over and put it on your knees, "Mom, do you want to take the eighteenth brother with you?"
"That's natural." Wen Xi nodded. The Queen Mother fell in love with Xiao Shiba. In the past two days, she sent Aunt Ji to take Xiao Shiba to play in Cining Palace. It took a long time to bring Xiao Shiba back. If it hadn't been for her My son has a picky appetite and won't take other people's milk. I'm afraid the Queen Mother would have withheld it early in the morning and wouldn't send it back!
Yu Ludai patted the carpet hair on Tuojin's body, carried Tuojin to Xiao Shiba, smiled at this younger brother who was only four months older than his daughter, "Brother Shiba, my sister asked your niece to accompany me." How about taking you to the palace?"
Wen Xi immediately rolled her eyes, didn't you just want to keep little Tuojin, and then go and live a world of two with Cao Yong by yourself?!
Xiaoshiba's cheeks were so bulging that he could not speak. He was chewing and swallowing what was in his mouth, then he raised his smile and said loudly: "Okay!!"
Little Tuojin's big black eyes were rolling, and she didn't know that she had been packaged and sold by her mother-in-law.
Wen Xi originally just wanted to pack up her youngest son and go to the palace together. Firstly, it was to avoid the Queen Mother, who was eager to have a grandchild. Secondly, it was also to reduce the disturbance. Even if she was recuperating behind closed doors in the harem, she could not stay away from right and wrong. Xi has always been fond of Changping Palace, and now she can stay there for a longer period of time on the grounds of recuperation. Now there is a little girl wearing crotchless pants, her granddaughter Cao Jia Tuojin (Chinese name Cao Jinyu).
The imperial concubine set off and prepared for three to five days. However, the harem already knew that Wen Xi was going to the palace again, and this time she was going to recuperate from illness. She would not be coming for a while. But there was no need for Wen Xi to go to the palace the previous few times. , the concubines of all sizes in the harem couldn't be happier. Because Kangxi was now abstaining from sexual intercourse and being a vegetarian, and hadn't changed his name for two months in a row. Naturally, he rarely stayed overnight in Chengqian Palace, but often came during the day. In this way, The concubines looked through the autumn water one by one, but they didn't know who to hate.
"Master, the Queen Mother has arrived! She is already outside the Chengqian Gate!" Xiaoluzi ran in quickly and reported.
"What?!" Wen Xi was still in the warm bed at this time. When she heard the news, she was immediately shocked. As the queen mother, she would not go to the concubine's palace. It was always the concubine who went there. Say hello to her old man! In the past, when Xiaozhuang was here, she only went to say hello to Xiaozhuang, and never lowered her dignity to the palace of a concubine!
"Zhu'er! Dress me up quickly!" Wen Xi said urgently. Isn't the old lady trying to make things difficult? If something happens, won't you call a nanny? If you can't summon her to Cining Palace, it would be better than her doing it in person. Come on!
Although Chengqian Palace is a spacious palace, it is not that big after all. From the palace gate of Chengqian Palace to the main hall, it only takes a cup of tea. Wen Xi can only wear an orange homely clothes and only comb her hair. I only had the simplest two hairpins, hairpins, hairpins, and Bu Yao didn’t have time to embellish it carefully. I just randomly inserted a jade phoenix hairpin to fix my hair. I didn’t have time to apply makeup or powder on my face, so I had to leave the main hall without makeup. Welcome.
Then I saw Aunt Ji supporting the Queen Mother, who was wearing a purple and golden satin dress, walking slowly. She held Zhu'er's hand gently and walked down the steps outside the palace door. She said, "I don't know the Queen Mother."
I am here in person but unable to welcome you from afar, please forgive me the Queen Mother!"
Wen Xi knelt down as she was about to salute, but was helped up by a pair of old arms. The Queen Mother did not come here dressed up today, she was dressed in ordinary clothes, and her face was very kind: "The Ai family just doesn't ask people to report it early, thinking
I came to see you, but I didn’t expect you to come out after all. It’s so pitiful that you are so thin!”
The kinder the Queen Mother's attitude became, the more alert Wen Xi became, and she hurriedly followed the rules and said: "Thank you, Queen Mother, for showing me mercy. I am in a much better condition than before." After saying that, she respectfully invited the Queen Mother to enter the main hall.
The Queen Mother stepped on the bottom of the flower pot, walked slowly, and sat on the rosewood lotus pattern throne. She straightened her body and said with a smile: "The Imperial Concubine is still ill. Sit down quickly and don't tire yourself."
Wen Xi hurriedly thanked her, sat sideways on the blue and white lotus pattern embroidered pier to the right of the Queen Mother, and said warmly: "I have taken care of you for these days, and I am already fine. It's just that the days will get colder, so I want to go."
It would be better to have a parallel palace in Changzhou. On the one hand, I am sick, so staying in the palace cannot help me. Secondly, I have to bother the Queen Mother and the Emperor to worry about me, which I cannot bear."
The Queen Mother drank the tea and hummed in a low voice, still with a kind face, "You are a sensible person!" Her eyes glanced at her warm cheeks twice, with a bit of compassion, she sighed: "It's so good, why?
Are you sick if you say you are sick? You have been recovering for so long and your face is still so bad..." He said, tutting and shaking his head.
Wen Xi put on a few wisps of a decent smile and said, "It is my fault that the queen mother is worried about me."
The Queen Mother's somewhat old hand fell on the warm back of her hand. The golden armor and the dazzling Dongzhu embedded on the armor were blurred for a while. The Queen Mother said gently: "You are the daughter-in-law of the Ai family, Ai.
How can my family not worry about you?"
Wen Xi was startled when she heard this, and stood up in a hurry, saying in a panic: "The Queen Mother is serious! I am the emperor's concubine, I don't dare to covet the middle palace!" Regardless of the three "daughter-in-laws" that the Queen Mother casually mentioned
Whether the word is unintentional or intentional, Wen Xi cannot accept it peacefully! Otherwise, if word spreads, there may be some rumors!
The Queen Mother still had a kind smile on her face like an ordinary mother-in-law. She stretched out her hand to hold her warm hand and said: "You are the emperor's noble concubine! If the emperor doesn't want to have a queen, that's all. If one day he has that idea, besides you, there is no one else.
Who has this qualification?"
Wen Xi had to be cautious. Although Kangxi privately said several times that he wanted to make her his queen, Wen Xi refused. Kangxi had never discussed this with the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother must have had her own purpose in saying such a thing.
, Wen Xi could only try her best to be more respectful, with a sad look on her face: "The Queen Mother also knows, it's 'if'!" Wen Xi deliberately emphasized the word "if"!
"How much does the emperor love the prince? Both the queen mother and the concubines saw it." Kangxi and Yinreng had several disagreements, but the prince's status is still unshakable. The cost of the Yuqing Palace is comparable to that of Kangxi.
The Hall of Cultivation of the Heart. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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