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

Life is just a dream, just a drunken streak.

After Kangxi got drunk with Yu Suisui that day and woke up from a nap, he returned to his old self.

On the contrary, Yu Sui, who had never drunk alcohol before, felt dizzy from a hangover after waking up and stayed in bed for two days.

Fortunately, she had taken the health-preserving pills that the Qingchuan Group always had, otherwise she might have gone to see the King of Hell early because of drunkenness.

Yu Suisui clearly felt that the original owner's emotions were in her heart, which was not the case in previous missions. Sometimes she felt that she was out of control, and she often had feelings of pity, and they were towards Kangxi.

She was wondering whether she should read two volumes of Buddhist scriptures to the original owner. She didn't know whether to read the "Sutra of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva", the "Avatamsaka Sutra", or the "Sutra on Rebirth According to Wishes"?

How about going to Baohua Hall and asking the monks to recite it all?

He did what he said. After breakfast, Yu Suisui took Xilan to Baohua Hall and found Monk Miaofa, a senior monk in the hall.

He was eighty-seven years old and had just finished chanting sutras for Empress Yuan when Yu Suisui came to visit him.

Monk Miaofa had kind eyes, snow-white eyebrows and beard, and the wrinkles on his face looked like they were full of Zen. Yu Suisui felt relieved and asked Monk Miaofa to recite sutras for her three times.

For three consecutive days, Yu Suisui went to Baohua Hall. Every time she came out, she felt a lot more relaxed and wanted to recite the scriptures a few more times. So she asked Monk Miaofa to recite the scriptures for her six more times.

She was a vegetarian every day, and by the ninth time, she felt that her heart was no longer raw, so she gave Miaofa an extra 100 taels of silver as incense money.

When Kangxi heard the talk from Consultant Xing, he smiled but said nothing. She was always so considerate. After the work was done in the evening, Kangxi took Consultant Xing and a few young eunuchs and went to Gonghua City again.

The Queen has passed away, and someone has to be in charge of the harem. Concubine Niu of Chuxiu Palace is temporarily in charge of palace affairs, and matters such as the Central Palace's signature documents are returned to the hands of the Empress Dowager.

For nearly ten years, Concubine Niu lived like a transparent person. She had no favor and no power, but once she gained power, she only thought about doing better than the queen.

For a time, the rules in the palace became strict again. Concubine Niu felt that the Queen's plan to buy small kitchens for each palace was inappropriate, and she wanted to go back to the previous practice and ask each palace to get meals from the kitchen.

As soon as this matter was mentioned to Kangxi, it was rejected. Fangyi was considerate of the concubines. In winter, the palace was far away, and the food was already cold when it was brought to the palace. Many palace ladies fell ill in winter.

The idea of ​​doing something big came to nothing, so Concubine Niu followed the Queen's rules and carried them out temporarily.

It was not until December 13, the 14th year of the Kangxi reign that Kangxi held a ceremony to confer the title of Crown Prince on Yinreng, who was just over one year old.

Concubine Niu was extremely unhappy. Was Hesheli's son so important?

Yu Suisui was not sure about this day. It was Chenghu's birthday. She didn't know what Kangxi was doing by choosing this day.

Yinreng is young and ignorant now, and who knows what kind of bomb this will cause in the future.

Concubine Niu was in a bad mood. She was currently the top concubine of Emperor Kangxi. If she was unhappy, there would naturally be unrest in the harem.

Fortunately, Sui Sui's rank was too low, so she didn't need to assist Concubine Niu in handling palace affairs, nor did she need to pay respects to the Grand Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother on the first and fifteenth days of each month.

The Xianfu Palace behind her welcomed new owners, who were Nara and Wang, whom Yu Sui had met in the imperial garden before.

She only remembered their last names, not their first names.

In October of this year, Nara gave birth to a prince named Wanfu. When she moved from Jianfu Palace to Xianfu Palace, she asked Concubine Niu to move Wang out as well. Now they live in the East Side Hall at the back of Xianfu Palace.

Yu Sui ran into them when she went out last time, but after nodding and saying hello, she went to the plum garden, wanting to try out whether the snow from the plum heart, which could be stored underground in a sealed jar until the next year, really had any miraculous effect.

She saw this in a collection of outdoor activities and wanted to try it out since she had nothing to do.

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"Master, do we really not need to ask the imperial physician to come and take a look?" Zi Pu was very worried and anxious. The master had been so favored in the past few years, but there had been no good news for a while.

Yu Suisui was also helpless. She wanted to say that not having children during the mission was a great blessing. "Zi Pu, you really don't have to worry. Whether you have children or not is up to fate. You can't force it."

"But, master, please go see the imperial physician. What if she gets pregnant after taking two doses of medicine?" Nala Gege in the Xianfu Palace behind her got pregnant after only three times of serving the emperor's bed. The master has no news at all.

Zipu wanted to ask Naragge if she had any secret recipe for having a child.

Refuse!

Yu Suisui: "I don't want to take medicine. I really don't care whether I have children or not. Besides, there are children in the harem who can be raised. Look at how many there are. I don't want to have one and then lose it."

Seriously, giving birth to a child wasn't even part of her mission. Is she crazy?

To run away and have a baby.

Zi Pu also knew this situation, but if there was no child, what would happen when the master got older in the future? The emperor would definitely not always pamper the master. This was how the harem was, with new people replacing old ones.

Of the concubines from the early years, only Concubine Niu, Lady Ma Jia and Lady Nara are left, and the rest are new.

Every year, the Imperial Household Department would select people through the small selection process. For example, Princess Zhaojia, who lived in the Qixiang Palace in front, was one of the people who were selected through the small selection process of the Imperial Household Department in the twelfth year. Now she has given birth to the fifth princess.

Xi Lan pulled on the corner of Zi Pu's clothes, signaling her to stop talking.

It is obvious that the master does not want to have children, but what the master said is not wrong. Those who can give birth in this palace are not necessarily able to raise them. For example, none of the concubines Ma Jia and Nara have lost children.

The master has a lively and cheerful personality. If she has to face the pain of birth and death, and then death and rebirth, it would be better for her not to have given birth to a child.

The matter was just passed over and Zi Pu just served his master even more attentively.

Yu Suisui remembered that Zi Pu and Xi Lan were also nineteen years old this year. In a few days, after New Year's Eve, it would be the fifteenth year of Kangxi, and she would have been in this world for almost five years.

At that time, Zi Pu and Xi Lan were already in their twenties. She specially called Zi Pu and Xi Lan over and asked, "Do you want to leave the palace and get married?"

The marriage age in the Qing Dynasty was early, at thirteen or fourteen. If Zi Pu and others really left the palace and got married at the age of twenty-five, they might not be able to find a suitable person in the future.

Xi Lan: "I don't want to get married. Master, please have mercy on me. I am willing to serve you all my life." She didn't want to get married. Her biological mother was dead. Her biological father married a second wife in the same year her mother died. Her brothers and sisters had grown up. She had spent money on the previous selections by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was exempted from the selection.

She was the only one who entered the palace. When she found out last year, she cried and never wanted to leave the palace again.

Zi Pu was a little hesitant. She had known Lin Lang next door since she was a child. They had once said that they would spend their lives together, but that was just a private conversation between the two of them. They would never dare to say it in public. Everyone knew that bondservants like them did not have the right to marry independently.

"Master, I am willing to leave the palace and get married." She wanted to take a gamble. Lin Lang had treated her well since she was a child, and she wanted to give it a try.

Yu Suisui nodded, "I understand. I will find a chance to tell the emperor." After that, he changed the subject and looked at Xi Lan, saying, "Xi Lan, have you really thought it through? Go back and think about it, don't make a decision right away."

In the Qing Dynasty, there were relatively few people like Xi Lan, as everyone cared about things like posthumous worship.

Xi Lan knelt down with a thump, and Yu Suisui felt pain in his knees.

"Master, I really don't want to get married. If I go home, I will be sold by my biological father and stepmother." She didn't think that her biological father and stepmother would find a good man for her after she returned home, and she didn't want to get married.

"Don't kneel there anymore. Get up quickly. If you don't want to, just stay. And if you're worried about not being able to find a good family, I can ask someone to find one for you." See if you can ask Kangxi for help.

"Master, I won't marry." Xi Lan insisted that she would not marry.

She was afraid of death! She was afraid that she would die of hunger during childbirth like her own mother, and her child would suffer.

"Then you stay. I don't ask you to get married." Yu Suisui felt that if Xi Lan stayed, her savings would be enough to support them.

"Who else but you ask her to get married?" Kangxi pulled aside the curtain and strode in. His adviser followed behind him, holding the cloak that Kangxi had just taken off.

"Your Majesty, I'm just talking about my two palace maids. They are old, and I wanted to ask Your Majesty for a favor to let them go early so they can get married." Yu Suisui quickly poured a cup of milk tea that was simmering on a small charcoal stove beside him and handed it to Kangxi.

"Your Majesty, drink quickly to warm your body."

Kangxi took the tea bowl, took a big sip, put the bowl down, and Yu Suisui stuffed a hand warmer in his hand. It was covered with a thin cotton cover, which was comfortable to hold and not hot. "Then after the New Year, when the selection is held, you choose two palace maids and let them go."

Yu Suisui said: "I haven't finished yet. If Xi Lan doesn't want to leave the palace, the emperor should let Zi Pu leave the palace and marry."

"Then let that palace maid leave the palace and get married." Kangxi didn't know which one was Zipu and which one was Xilan.

Zi Pu knelt down and kowtowed three times, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace."

Kangxi didn't even glance at him, but looked at Yu Suisui and said, "It's been very cold recently, is your palace still short of charcoal?"

The reason why Kangxi asked this was because the charcoal that Yu Suisui had received according to the quota given to Concubine Niu was not enough. Her back hall was much larger, so much more charcoal would be needed.

In the first year after the Empress's death, Concubine Niu did not change and asked the Imperial Household Department to give her charcoal according to the Empress's rules. This year, Concubine Niu gave it according to the palace rules. Last month, Kangxi saw Yu Sui preparing to spend money to buy charcoal. He then allocated some silver thread charcoal and red basket charcoal from Kangxi's private warehouse, and asked the Imperial Household Department to add some of his usual charcoal.

"No, isn't the emperor busy lately? Why did you come here?" It was the end of the year, and Kangxi must be busy writing the word "Fu" for his ministers.

Last year, Kangxi wrote hundreds of them of different sizes, but she just didn't want to stick the white "Fu" character on it in her back hall.

Kangxi held a hand warmer and said, "Xie Fu, you are tired of writing. Come over and talk and take a break." Since the time he got drunk with Yu Suisui, he became more and more casual towards Yu Suisui.

Say whatever comes to mind.

"Your Majesty, you have worked hard." Yu Suisui said politely, thinking that the emperor's job was not easy either. It was almost New Year's Eve, and he was still working overtime.

"Last time I heard you say that you had collected plum blossom snow water. Can I use it to make tea this time?" Kangxi was also taking a break from his busy schedule today. He really didn't want to write the word "Fu".

Speaking of this, Yu Suisui said, "I buried it underground. They said that we can only open the jar after the beginning of spring thaws. Then I will invite the emperor to come and have tea."

"Well, don't cook in your small kitchen today. I'll serve the meal later." It was a New Year's Eve family dinner. Hesheli's status was not high enough, so she could only eat the banquet prepared by the kitchen. She was the only one in Changchun Palace, and she stayed up all night alone every year.

"it is good."

Yu Sui was very happy to have the imperial meal to eat. Although pot stew was the main dish, it was the emperor's imperial meal, so it must have rich ingredients.

"I asked you before, and you said you didn't want to live with anyone. Are you saying the same thing again this time?" Kangxi was actually a little worried. Hesheli had been favored by the emperor for many years but there was no news at all. He guessed that Hesheli might be infertile.

He was also afraid that Nara would be lonely and helpless in her old age, so he originally wanted to move Nara to Changchun Palace. However, after asking Yu Suishui, she said she was unwilling.

Yu Suisui was afraid of having another neighbor. Why should he share a palace with others when he could have it all to himself? "No, I still don't want to live with anyone."

Then he said, "Your Majesty, it's fine for me to live alone. I like it this way. It's quiet and I don't worry about disturbing anyone."

She lives alone in a large courtyard house in the capital. Why does she want to live with strangers? Is she crazy?

Kangxi placed the hand warmer on the table and said, "I don't insist that you live with others. I am thinking that if you are willing, I will give Wan Fu to you to raise."

Although Hesheli's rank was low, he could still support her if he gave the order.

Yu Suisui waved his hands frantically and said, "Please, let me go!"

"Your Majesty, I am still a child myself, how can I raise a child? What's more, he is a prince. Please forgive me and let me stay in Changchun Palace alone." She didn't want it!

Absolutely not! Absolutely not!

Kangxi is really a very strange person. When he treats you well, he takes everything into consideration and does not miss anything!

Yu Suisui feels that she is now a person who plants trees for future generations to enjoy the shade, and she is that future generation.

Seeing her resistance, Kangxi stopped talking about it and said, "If you don't want to, forget it. I will come to see you more often in the future."

If you don't want to raise a child, then don't raise one. What she said is true. Hesheli has a lively and restless personality. This personality is indeed not suitable for raising a child.

After having a super sumptuous imperial banquet with Kangxi, the two of them made love three times. The next morning, Kangxi went to court in the wind and snow, while Yu Suisui was still sleeping soundly in bed.

In February of the following year, Kangxi suddenly issued an edict to call his cousin Tong Jia into the palace and gave her the treatment of a concubine according to her rank.

He lived in Jingren Palace, the former bedroom of Kangxi's biological mother.

Zi Pu also left the palace. The new palace maid was named Jiliang. Her father's favorite horse and her mother's favorite color were both named this way, so she was named Jiliang.

According to tradition, they will meet Tong Gege in Jingren Palace.

Tong Jia held a flower-viewing banquet and invited princesses and above in the palace to attend.

But there weren't many people, only nine. But Borjigit didn't want to go. She wanted to chant sutras with the empress dowager.

Then Yu Suisui heard Tong Gege call out the names of the two palace maids, "Ma Lun and Shuang Jie."

Well, now the case has been solved. The mother of the future Emperor Yongzheng, Uya Malan, and the mother of Yongzheng's strongest rival, the Eighth Wise Kings, Juechan Shuangjie, both served in Tong Gege's palace.

It turns out they were once colleagues!