Qing Dynasty: The Imperial Concubine is Pregnant Again

Ever since Xia Huan's deliberate seduction, the management within Prince Yong's Mansion has become increasingly strict, with the heads of each courtyard restraining their subordinates.

All the courtyards where nothing had happened behaved like this, especially the Piaoxue Courtyard which was the talk of the town.

Everyone heard Xia Huan's screams that night, and Su Peisheng couldn't suppress it even if he wanted to. The first people to know about it were the maids in the main courtyard and Piaoxue courtyard.

Qiuyu waited at the door early in the morning. After Su Peisheng helped Yinzhen put on his court robes and went out, she directed two maids with lingering fear to bring in toiletries.

Her slender, bony hands were completely immersed in the basin of flower petals. She took the hot towel handed over by the maid and carefully wiped her face.

Tong Nuanyan was wearing a blue nightgown. After washing up, she sat lazily on the couch. She felt a little strange when she saw Qiuyu beside her looking absent-minded.

"Qiu Yu, what are you thinking about?"

Qiu Yu suddenly came back to his senses and bowed to apologize.

"Master, it's all because of my poor management that Xia Huan got into trouble. Please punish me!"

These days, everyone in the palace has been laughing at the joke of their Piaoxue Courtyard. There was an incident where a maid who cleaned the house offered herself to the prince and seduced him. Naturally, she was the first to be blamed.

Tong Nuanyan said nothing, but silently stepped forward to help her up. She knew Qiuyu's loyalty best. It was not just the effect of the potion, she had seen how she had done in the past two years.

"I believe you. Xia Huan had already shown signs of this a long time ago. Zhang Gege saw it when she came last time. I asked her to do the rough work as a warning to her."

Having said that, everyone knew what happened next, so Tong Nuanyan didn't need to say anything more. She just patted Qiuyu's hand and asked her to pay more attention to management and Wang Chengyun.

Just when Piaoxueyuan was being rectified, Luomeiyuan.

Main house.

Li Gege Li Qinya was fanning herself gently with a round fan. Hongyun is four years old now, which is the age for enlightenment. Li Qinya has been busy with this matter recently.

Kangxi paid special attention to the education of his princes and grandchildren. Children could start their education when they were three to four years old, and go to the study room to study with the Grand Secretaries of the Hanlin Academy at the age of six.

Most mothers want their sons to be smarter than others, so they will give their sons some enlightenment before they go to the study.

This is what Li Qinya is thinking now. She has only one son, so naturally she has to compare everything with the legitimate son Honghui. The spies she arranged will report to her at regular intervals.

It's not about what Honghui learned and how well he learned it, but about how fluently Honghui can recite things.

The more she heard it, the more she didn't want her son to be inferior to her, so she used the Three Character Classic to enlighten her son.

Hongyun was weak and after being forced to study by Li Qinya for a day, he felt exhausted and fell seriously ill in just half a month.

Upon learning that it was the result of Li Qinya's coercion, Yinzhen was naturally angry. Hongyun was also his son. He originally thought that Hongyun was weak and did not need to be enlightened so early. Who would have thought that Li would be so anxious.

"Ms. Li, Hongyun was born weak and you, as his mother, don't take it seriously?"

Yinzhen sat beside Hongyun's bed with a gloomy face. Li, with tears on her face, knelt pitifully at his feet.

Hearing Yinzhen's harsh words, she felt as if she had fallen into an icy cave. She shook her head in fear, "Fourth Master, I didn't. Hongyun... Hongyun is my son. How could I not care about his health?"

Her eyes rolled and tears fell to the ground. She grabbed Yinzhen's shoes and hugged his legs with both hands.

"Fourth Master, my motherly love is evident to all. During the time when Hongyun was ill, I have not rested for a moment and have been taking care of him every day."

She vaguely noticed that Yinzhen's face had improved a little, and continued to cry and say: "Hongyun is now four years old, and has not yet started enlightenment. I...I also want Hongyun not to fall behind Prince Honghui..."

Yinzhen listened to Li's crying calmly, without commenting on her words, but he was not as angry as he was at the beginning.

"Hongyun is weak, so I didn't arrange for him to start school because I thought that he would be much better after another year when he is five years old and in better health."

Li looked up at him with tearful eyes, as if she was surprised that Yinzhen would make such an arrangement. The next moment, she was so moved that she fell on his knees:

"Fourth Master~ It's all my fault. I didn't know that you cared so much about Hongyun. I almost thought that you didn't value our Hongyun, wuwuwu~"

But in the corner where Yinzhen couldn't see, there was still a look of unwillingness in her eyes.

The Fourth Master said that he was taking Hongyun's health into consideration. Honghui was also born weak, so how could he be enlightened? Or did she despise Hongyun because he was not a legitimate son?

Yinzhen was indeed somewhat wronged. On the one hand, Honghui was enlightened because of his age. Although he was born with a difficult birth and was weak, he was well taken care of by the Fourth Lady in recent years and was in good health.

Hongyun has been frail and sickly since birth. Both of them look weak, but Hongyun is actually weaker than Honghui.

He reached out and patted Li's shoulder. Although he was still a little angry, he let it go for the sake of his loving mother.

September.

Tong Nuanyan, who has been locked up for a whole month, is finally coming out of confinement.

The twin brother and sister have grown plump and white this month. Hongzhao often comes to their bedroom to play. At such a young age, he doesn't understand what the terms "brother and sister" mean, he just remembers the names from what people around him say.

"Mother~Brother, sister, good morning~"

Hongzhao, who is over one year old, speaks clearly. Now that he has six teeth, he speaks without any blemishes. He wears two long gowns and refuses to be led by the maids.

He walked steadily towards the crib where the twin brother and sister were taking a nap.

"Zhao Zhao is here to see his brothers and sisters today too?" Tong Nuanyan smiled as she sat on a low stool and started to tease her son.

After Hong Zhao reached out and touched his brother and sister's cheeks, he pouted and walked towards his mother. His handsome and cute face showed that he was not very happy.

"Mother, brother and sister, when will you play with me?"

Tong Nuanyan touched his little head. His soft hair felt good. After pinching his face, she spoke:

"Hongxi and Xinyu are still young now. They have to wait until their younger siblings are older before they can play with Hongzhao."

Apparently Hong Zhao was not satisfied with this answer, and asked again: "Then Hong Zhao plays by himself~"

Tong Nuanyan secretly took a picture of her son's cute little expression with the "memory camera" she exchanged last month.

[Memory Camera: A best-selling camera from the StarCraft that can holographically record the entire scene, and automatically project a holographic image to restore the real experience when watching it.]

She had also thought about when to give these things to the children, but it was not possible at the moment because Hongzhao was too young and it would be easy for him to tell anything, which would expose herself too easily.

She planned to wait until Hongzhao grew up a little, and then take them out gradually.