Rong Fei is not honored

At noon on the second day, Kangxi came to Zhongcui Palace for lunch. Gina asked casually, "Your Majesty, aren't you busy these days? You said before that you want to finish all your affairs before the end of the year, so you may not be able to come to Zhongcui Palace in the near future. What's the matter today?"

This was the way Ji Nai and Kangxi got along. Unconsciously, Ji Nai got used to being honest with Kangxi and would speak directly without beating around the bush. This was one of the reasons why Kangxi felt that Ji Nai was at ease with him.

"I heard something. Was Concubine Nara disrespectful to the Queen yesterday?"

Ji Nai did not hide his surprise at all, "How did Your Majesty know this? You are so busy with all kinds of affairs, you can't possibly pay attention to these trivial matters in the harem."

"Being disrespectful to the Queen is a small matter?" This statement could be a big deal or a small one. To put it in a big way, it might be that he is suspecting that Ji Nai does not respect the Queen in his heart.

But Ji Nai was not afraid at all, and rolled her eyes gracefully: "Your Majesty is trying to scare me again, how can it not be a small matter? It's just that the words between the two of us were a little inappropriate, and it took one of us to get to that point."

"Are you trying to excuse Concubine Nara?"

"I have never had any disputes with Concubine Nara, so I don't need to speak well of her. But I am also a mother, and the word "unlucky" used by the queen is really heartbreaking."

Kangxi's eyes flashed with a cold light. He naturally knew everything that the Queen and Concubine Nara said that day. The word "unlucky" did indeed bother Kangxi very much, but he did not show it. "If others heard what you said, they would definitely accuse you of treason."

"So, I will only speak my mind if Your Majesty asks me. I will never speak except in front of you." Kangxi really enjoyed Ji Nai's trust in him. This was indeed inappropriate, but she still said it in front of him, not afraid that he would get angry.

Kangxi felt that his efforts before Ji Nai's birth might have paid off, and he was closer to Ji Nai again.

In fact, Kangxi came here today just to ask Ji Nai's opinion. The Empress Dowager would only say that the Queen was fussy and didn't know the big picture, and the other concubines didn't dare to say anything bad about the Queen, they would only accuse Concubine Nara of being unruly.

Only Ji Nai could understand his feelings. From the perspective of a parent, he thought that the word "unlucky" was too much.

After hearing about this, Kangxi couldn't help but wonder what the queen and the Shehesheli family were thinking. In their eyes, the other princes were insignificant. Even after killing the child, they could still brazenly say that it was bad luck, without any guilt or compassion, let alone reflection.

Think about Sony's behavior in the court. It seems that he supports his side, but in fact, just look at how the Hesheli family did not suffer any serious damage in the fight with Oboi. Kangxi understood that people have selfish desires, but as an emperor, he did not like such ministers after all.

In this life, Kangxi no longer trusted the queen, so naturally he would not mind her little thoughts with the Hesheli family. The emperor was the most unreasonable person in the world. He could be ruthless and ungrateful, but he demanded others to be wholehearted.

Just like when Kangxi and Ji Nai communicated with each other, he could not dismiss Ji Nai's harem, but asked Ji Nai to treat him as before. He could not favor the queen, nor could he regard the Hesheli family as his confidants, but he would mind that he was not the most important in the queen's heart, and that she put personal honor and family future first, and he would not allow the Hesheli family to have disloyalty, even if they were loyal to his son.

The words of the queen not only planted a thorn in Kangxi's heart, but also made him start to look at this family with the eyes of an emperor, and no longer simply regard it as his wife's maternal family. The two words "relatives by marriage" were enough to arouse the vigilance of a qualified emperor.

In fact, Ji Nai, who had no keen political sense, did not notice this at all. She just felt vaguely that Kangxi seemed to be increasingly dissatisfied with Empress Hesheli. She was secretly happy, while secretly thinking about when to add fuel to the fire.

Instead, it was Yuan Xu, who had been watching everything, who saw Kangxi's suspicion. Compared with the historical case where the paternal love gradually faded and suspicion arose when the emperor in his twilight years and the crown prince in his prime clashed, this time it was too early, so early that the queen had not even given birth to a legitimate son.

But all this is beneficial to Ji Nai and her children, so she would not say it out loud. Otherwise, if Ji Nai revealed any clues and Kangxi or some interested people noticed it, it might change the current good situation.

Yuan Xu inexplicably looked forward to seeing Ji Nai become the mother of the country and live in the Cining Palace. What she and Ji Nai wanted were not exactly the same, but there was no need to say it out loud.

Kangxi did not show his dissatisfaction and only revealed it a little in front of Ji Nai. However, there was another person who noticed it a little bit. That was the person involved, Empress Hesheli, but it was just a guess.

After all, on the surface, Kangxi treated her as usual, and nothing major had happened in the palace recently. The queen had no idea that just because of her momentary slip of the tongue, she would ruin all possibilities of harmony between her and Kangxi.

The Queen has been a little unhappy recently. The New Year's Eve dinner should have been her most glorious moment. She would enter the venue hand in hand with the Emperor. Only as his wife could she have such an honor and accept everyone's kneeling worship together with the Emperor.

But a few days ago, the emperor actually sent Liang Jiugong to say that this year's dinner the emperor would first go to the Cining Palace and accompany the Grand Empress Dowager to the venue, and asked her to go to the Ci'an Palace to invite the Empress Dowager.

The Queen guessed that His Majesty wanted to show his filial piety to his subjects and the affection of the royal family. But the Queen was still unhappy, not only because the glory she had expected was gone, but also because the Emperor had never discussed the matter with her, and in the end he just perfunctorily sent a servant to inform her.

Although the two had been getting along like this before, and sometimes the queen regretted her previous stupidity, she didn't think she would continue like this with the emperor. She felt that as long as she fulfilled her duties as the queen, the emperor would forgive her one day, but this incident made her vaguely feel that something was wrong.

However, after several days of observation, the emperor treated the former dynasty and the harem as usual, so he gave up the idea and thought he was just being too suspicious.

She forced herself to continue preparing for the dinner. Although the emperor's decision was not satisfactory, she had no choice but to obey. And no matter how unhappy she was, she still had to get things done, otherwise it would be a clear expression of her dissatisfaction with the emperor.

Palace affairs took up most of Empress Hesheli's energy, causing her to lose her due vigilance. Otherwise, if the empress had not denied so quickly that something was wrong with Kangxi, but had kept this idea in mind, then by the first month of the following year, Kangxi's series of actions would have confirmed her guess.

Unfortunately, fate played a trick on her. She lost this opportunity because of one wrong step.