Quick Wear: I was a Favored Concubine in the Qing Dynasty
Chapter 57 Concubine Xi 18
After the Fourteenth Finger Marriage, Concubine De's palace power was taken back bit by bit by Kangxi, and now she only controls the Yonghe Palace.
Yu Suisui still followed Kangxi in Changchun Garden as usual. Concubine Yi could sometimes come with him and sometimes stay in the palace. The chances were 50-50.
Yu Sui's niece, who is currently the second brother who is still a seventh-rank official, had a girl in his family who was married to Concubine Yi's nephew. Someone was sent to the house to mediate the reconciliation.
As for the fourth elder brother who currently holds the highest official position in the Hesheli family, his daughter was betrothed to a royal family member by Kangxi. If Yu Suisui is willing, he can invite her into the palace during the New Year to reminisce about the past.
Kangxi was now old, and his temper was becoming more and more eccentric. After his favorite concubine Wang for more than a decade gave birth to the eighteenth prince, he suddenly fell in love with Wang's rival, Wang, who was pushed forward by Chen.
Concubine Wang had only one daughter, who was now six or seven years old. She looked well-behaved and cute. Yu Sui had run into her several times while taking a walk in Houhu Lake. Concubine Yi had planned to take the girl in and raise her in Yiku Palace, but later, Imperial Concubine Tong intervened and sent the girl to Chengqian Palace.
In order to compete with the younger Wang, the previous Wang pushed Gao out, suppressing the latter Wang.
Yu Sui just regarded it as a good show. She really felt that Wang's behavior was hurting herself and the enemy at the same time, and in the end, it was Kangxi who benefited.
The custody of the Eighteenth Prince did not fall to Wang, but was given to the main concubine in Wang's palace. After being favored for more than ten years, it was discovered that she was still a concubine. Just like her before, she had been a princess for more than five years.
We have to say that Kangxi was really stingy with his position, or perhaps he wanted to be a wise ruler and not have a reputation for being lustful and lecherous. As long as he didn't give him a title, there would be only a few people on the throne, and it seemed that he was still a good emperor who restrained himself and restored propriety.
"Master, the fourth prince's legitimate son is gone." Xi Lan has become softer-hearted as she grows older. She felt a little bit reluctant when she spoke about the death of a young child.
Yu Suisui didn't look up and continued to fiddle with her chessboard. "Okay, I got it." Based on her understanding of Xi Lan, there will definitely be a follow-up.
As expected, Xi Lan said with some regret, "Defei invited the Fourth Lady into the palace, and sent four maids to the Fourth Prince's house." Defei was too inappropriate in this matter. The Fourth Lady had just lost her son. Not to mention comforting her, she shouldn't have sent a few maids to the Fourth Prince in such a hurry. If people know, people will think you feel sorry for the Fourth Prince, and if people don't know, people will think you are deliberately slapping him in the face.
Yu Suisui did not answer either. Over the past year, Defei's only biological daughter died of illness. Her temper became more and more unstable. Although they exchanged a few words at the New Year's banquet, every word was about the Fourteenth Prince. Now, she might have projected all her emotions onto the Fourteenth Prince.
As for the Fourth Master, Concubine De may have privately felt that Empress Tong had left him enough things, while her youngest son had nothing. She was partial to him for a while, but it became a habit over time.
However, the above is just her guess. She doesn't know what Concubine De is thinking specifically. After all, people's hearts are hidden.
Xi Lan sighed, "What will the Fourth Lady do in the future?" Not only has she lost her son, her mother-in-law is not good either, and her husband also has a favored concubine. There is really no half-son in the Fourth Master's house now.
Yu Suisui's chessboard was not set up properly, so he simply put it away and started over. "Just live your life as it should be. Just endure it anyway." The Fourth Lady's life is hard, and it will only get harder in the future. This husband will have someone he loves in the future. After he ascends the throne, he will remember the children born to his concubine. After the concubine dies, he will bring the children to his side to raise them. If the concubine dies young, he will posthumously be named a prince.
The only legitimate son was posthumously honored after Qianlong came to the throne. They said that it was left for Qianlong to show his favor. Why would a dead person need to make decisions?
In the future, the Fourth Lady was probably left with only a little shallow marital affection and so-called respect.
Xi Lan could only sigh. There was nothing she could do. Thinking of the Fourth Lady who had entered the palace at a young age, she could only sigh.
Kangxi walked into Yu Suisui's yard angrily. He didn't expect that Concubine De would not be able to distinguish the importance of the matter. This was just rubbing salt into the wound of the fourth prince.
"How come Concubine De has become like this?" Kangxi felt melancholy. The Concubine De, who was once docile and pitiful, was now so stupid and vicious when she did things.
Besides, she is the fourth child’s biological mother!
Yu Suisui didn't think about comforting Kangxi. She pushed the chess box next to her toward Kangxi and asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to play chess?"
Who knows what Concubine De was like originally? She just wanted others to see her in a certain way, so she deliberately moved in that direction.
Kangxi played black and for a moment he held the chess piece and stared at Yu Suisui. There were a few wrinkles on her face, which were more obvious at the corners of her eyes when she smiled, but her eyes were not much different from when they first met.
His appearance was reflected in her dark and clear eyes. Her eyelashes were still thick and curled, and he could see her most clearly when her eyelids drooped. She really hadn't changed at all in decades. He had long forgotten what the Empress looked like, but over the years, he had thought of her more and more in his mind and heart.
Kangxi threw the black piece in his hand and said, "No more playing. Come with me for a walk." Hesheli's chess skill was not good either, and she had made little progress over the years.
Yu Susui had no choice but to get off the bed and change into soft-soled embroidered shoes. She still didn't like those flower-pot shoes. After all, there were fewer rules in Changchun Garden than in the palace, and no one would say anything if she wore them like this.
Kangxi held her hand, as if recalling something, and said, "I remember your maiden name was Yiermu." Yiermu and Fangyi, he still remembered Fangyi's name, and he only remembered Fangyi's name.
He held great power and enjoyed all the wealth and glory in the world. He no longer remembered the hardships of his early years. He only remembered that he had had difficult times when he was young. However, with the success of withdrawing the Three Feudatories and personally conquering Galdan, these memories of his youth had slowly been forgotten.
Sometimes when he saw Ma Jia, he felt as if they were in another world.
"Hmm." Yu Suisui hummed as a reply. What was wrong with Kangxi today? He hadn't called her name for decades, and now he suddenly asked her name.
She had been listening to Hesheli for decades, and she was still a little uncomfortable with this sudden change.
"I remember that you love to enjoy yourself the most. You want the best of everything. You are also playful and like to make trouble. I don't know how many fish you have caught in Nanyuan to eat." Those were all good and precious species, but she liked to feed the fish for a while, and then she would use a net bag to catch the fish after the fish got used to them. She did this for many years. Later, when she came to Changchun Garden, she started to farm again.
One type is that after more than ten years, she still hasn't made any progress in growing vegetables, and she was so angry that she never grew vegetables again and started growing trees instead. There is a row of willow trees over at Fangshu that were all planted by her when she was angry.
Yu Suisui didn't think there was anything wrong with her. Instead, he exposed Kangxi's shortcomings, "Your Majesty, you have eaten much more fish from Nanyuan than I have." It wasn't like she ate it alone. She ate it with Kangxi and the Crown Prince when he was a child. She couldn't just take the blame.
Kangxi laughed, "I know, I was just saying it casually." If he hadn't spoiled her, how could she have had so many good things according to her share? Just the clothes and jewelry for the four seasons, he didn't know how much he had transferred from his private treasury to her.
The rewards that the Guaerjia, Wang, Gao, and Chen clans received combined were not as much as she received in a year. Thinking of this, Kangxi realized how much he had indulged her.
She has been the same for decades, and this is what she deserves.
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