Quick Wear: I was a Favored Concubine in the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 50

"So I said, you have to remember your mother."

"She is kind to us mother and son."

The Empress Dowager thought of Empress Xiaojing and felt a little nostalgic. Although the backyard was a little messy at that time.

The late emperor was also a bit weird, saying all day long that he wanted to meditate here or discuss Taoism there, but at the same time he was inseparable from Concubine Nian.

When talking about the fact that the late emperor had few offspring, it was said that he had no interest in matters between men and women.

But is this really the case?

During those years, there were many women in the backyard, but few of them gave birth to children.

During those years, the most favored person was Concubine Nian.

She was so filial that the empress couldn't help but persuade her to wait for a year or two before having another child.

But in those three years, she gave birth to almost three children.

My body is broken.

So you die early.

I used to see them as rivals and hated them, but now I look at them again and find them funny.

My life, all those years, was a life-and-death struggle for a man who was completely boring.

What's the point?

Did you get it in the end?

In the end, I didn't want to.

The Queen Mother thought about it and found it a little funny. The women in the harem were reincarnations one after another.

She said that the queen was just seeing her own end in advance.

Qianlong thought about his stepmother's death anniversary every year and why his mother always went there in person.

"Emperor, I'm telling you this, but you probably don't understand." The empress dowager finally looked at Qianlong, with a sadness in her eyes that Qianlong could not understand.

What is my mother mourning?

"You don't understand. This harem is a huge cage that turns docile animals into ferocious beasts and turns ferocious beasts into docile lambs." The Queen Mother thought that the women in this harem had repeated the same fate from generation to generation.

Qianlong: "Mother, your description is too exaggerated." How could it have come to this?

The Empress Dowager looked at Qianlong and realized that he really didn't understand.

He had no such thing in his life. He was a man, and he had never been taught that.

A woman's destiny is written from the very beginning, as she is a wife and mother.

"The Queen has failed in her duty, so you should not indulge her as before." The Queen Mother thought that only when the whip hits a person will they feel pain.

This is the last time, if the queen really refuses to change her ways.

That's the ending she deserved.

Qianlong: "Mother, do you know?"

"The Queen and the Imperial Concubine had a quarrel. Even if I stayed in the palace, I should have known about it."

"The Imperial Concubine did nothing wrong. Ping promised to be pitiful. She went to the Empress, but the Empress refused to see her, so she went to the Imperial Concubine."

"There's nothing wrong with Ping agreeing." The Queen failed to fulfill her duty and did not do her job well.

However, in just three years, the queen had been managing the harem for less than three years, and the previous rules had changed.

In the past, if the internal service dared to do such a thing, she would drag them out and beat them to death.

Qianlong: "Mother, the Queen will have to manage the harem in the future." If her authority is lost, it will be difficult to rebuild it in the future.

"If you can't be ruthless, such things will happen everywhere in the harem in the future." The Queen Mother closed her eyes. The matter between the Queen and the Emperor was really not the fault of one person alone. "Emperor, you are not just the Queen's husband. You are the husband of all the concubines in this harem."

"The Queen's life depends on you, but the rest of the concubines also rely on you for their lives."

"You can have your own preferences, you can make distinctions between the important and the unimportant, you can make distinctions between the more and the less. But no matter who you like the most, as the husband of the remaining concubines, you must ensure their food, clothing, shelter and transportation."

Feelings have to be prioritized, but which of these women was not chosen by the emperor himself?

Yes, they are all. There were not many rewards given by the previous emperor.

Qianlong had never thought about these things, but when he heard the empress dowager say this, he felt a sense of responsibility.

"Mother, I understand." Qianlong thought that this matter really needed to be taken care of.

The Queen really didn't do a very good job in this matter.

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Yu Suisui stayed in the Yangxin Palace for another two days, and it was already December when he returned.

The first important festival in the twelfth lunar month is Laba Festival.

The queen happily prepared for the Laba Festival, thinking that on such a day, Emperor Qianlong would never hide from her again.

But Qianlong did not avoid seeing her. When he saw her, he would scold her.

"The Imperial Concubine cleaned up the mess for you, but instead of being grateful to her, you even thought she was overstepping her bounds. The palace maids around you who instigated you should all be dragged out and beaten to death." The master's entourage fanned the flames.

The queen did not expect Qianlong to say this. She had already made up her mind to accept Qianlong's decision of giving each of them fifty lashes.

I didn’t expect Qianlong to be like this.

The entire mistake was directly blamed on her. The queen wanted to cry and she did cry.

"Your Majesty, I am your concubine~"

"Empress, I'm telling you something and you're crying. Do you look like a queen at all?" Qianlong didn't want to see the queen cry.

I used to be reluctant to do so, but now I find it annoying.

Things like this in the harem have become more and more serious in the past three years, and such things have happened before.

But no one dared to plunder the concubines like this, leaving them with no clothes to wear and no food to eat.

These things happened in the past few years that the Queen has been managing the harem.

The queen felt aggrieved and dissatisfied, and finally bit her lip, looking at Qianlong stubbornly without saying a word.

She tried to make Qianlong feel distressed in this way, just like before.

Qianlong was also tired of this look. He had seen her like this too many times in the past six months. "Empress, do you still remember that you are the queen?"

Of course the empress knew that she was the empress. She was the emperor's wife, the empress of the Qing Dynasty, and would be buried in the imperial mausoleum with the emperor after her death.

Live and sleep together, die in the same hole.

Seeing the queen like this, Qianlong became more and more dissatisfied. "Since you are the queen, you must take on the responsibilities of the queen and rule the six palaces. It's not just talk."

The queen felt more and more aggrieved. She had been doing this all along. She could have come and told her about the imperial concubine's matter first.

She would have made the arrangements herself, but the imperial concubine didn't, and insisted on being the center of attention alone.

Want to share the power in her hands.

The emperor still feels sorry for the imperial concubine at this time?

"Your Majesty, what you said is really unreasonable."

"I've worked diligently these years, fearing that I wouldn't do even a little bit well. Just because of a small incident like this, the Emperor is going to deny everything I've done in the past?"

The more the queen spoke, the sadder she felt. She didn't want to say it in the first place, but her life had not been easy these years.

The palace is different from the prince's palace. The people here are of all kinds, including the old friends of the previous emperor. After she came up, she spent a lot of effort to subdue these people.

But who knew that these people were hypocritical.

When the imperial concubine encountered this, she refused to tell her and even added insult to injury.

Qianlong looked at the queen with a puzzled look. The queen's attitude when speaking to him was very disrespectful.