The prince only allowed me to have a baby, so the pressure is a bit high!

Chapter 4: Empress Xiaozhuang is seriously ill

Seeing her mother was angry, Buerhe was afraid that she would misunderstand her, so she quickly explained: "Don't be angry, mother. The reason I told you this is because I don't want to make a big deal out of this matter. There was a theft in my room. If the matter gets out of hand, people will say that we in the Ulanara Mansion are not strict in discipline."

Upon hearing this, Jueluo dismissed Nanny Song and asked her to go down and instruct her to investigate the matter in person. However, she tapped Buerhe's forehead and said, "You, you still don't have enough experience. Fortunately, this matter was reported to me, and I didn't deal with it privately. You only care about this and forget everything else. Such an evil slave has appeared in our mansion. We must investigate it thoroughly and punish him in front of the whole mansion. Otherwise, the servants in the mansion will follow suit. Will the rules of the mansion still exist? Your eldest sister was the same at the beginning, saying that everyone is equal. In the end, I had a lot of trouble to change her. You can't learn from her. As the master of the inner house, you must act according to the rules and be fair. Otherwise, those servants will not listen to you. Starting tomorrow, you will take over the cleaning of the mansion. Let Nanny Song guide you more, how to arrange the manpower, and how to establish your authority."

What she didn't say was that, according to her recent calculations with Fei Yanggu, her daughter was destined to be the emperor's daughter-in-law. If she didn't manage the household properly, it would undoubtedly be reported to Kangxi, and it would be hard to say whether she could even become a prince's consort. After all, in a large family, marrying a virtuous wife and having a long line of descendants were secondary; managing the household was the most important thing. If you couldn't manage a single mansion properly as a legitimate consort, what was your purpose? If you wanted more children and grandchildren, wouldn't you just take in more concubines?

Wasn't it because I was a very capable housekeeper and was favored by my mother-in-law that even after giving birth to my eldest daughter and not getting pregnant again a year later, my mother-in-law didn't urge me to arrange a concubine for Fei Yanggu? Later, as I spent more time with Fei Yanggu, their relationship improved. Then, a boy a year, a total of four sons were born. Finally, after giving birth to Buerhe and injuring herself, the old lady allowed me to take a concubine for Fei Yanggu.

However, at that time, he already had four sons and two daughters, and was respected by Fei Yanggu, so it was not a problem for him to take a concubine. Sure enough, even if Fei Yanggu took a concubine, he would take the initiative to let them drink contraceptive soup. Except for the time when he went to the concubine's room to spend the night on his own, he stayed in the main courtyard all other time.

Even though the matter was handed over to the Jueluo family, that afternoon, Buerhe's wet nurse was taken home by her son to recuperate because she sprained her ankle. When Buerhe knew about it, he sent twenty taels of silver to visit her, but she never came back since then.

The servants in the mansion were also cleared out by Jueluoshi, who actually found a few stubborn slaves. They also cleared them out. As for the hairpin, it was not sold in time, so it was taken back intact. Only the gold bead was sold long ago and could not be found.

Because the wet nanny was the only one in the mansion who had the indenture contract, and her son was a commoner, the mansion reported the case to the police. It was then found out that Wang Zhu had instigated the wet nanny to steal because he lost money gambling. In the end, Wang Zhu was sentenced to prison. As for the wet nanny, the mansion could no longer let her stay. Considering that she had nursed Burhe, she was sent directly to the farm to live.

In the following time, Buerhe learned management and personnel transfer with Nanny Song in the morning, and learned etiquette and needlework with the other Nannies in the afternoon. Occasionally, he also learned how to make soups and the like. His life was very fulfilling.

Recently, the two maids had arranged for Buerhe to wear a flower pot bottom. Given Buerhe's family background, even if she wasn't the wife of a prince, she was still the family of an important official. Regardless, she would have to attend the imperial court, so a flower pot bottom was absolutely necessary. Furthermore, in the Qing Dynasty, women were required to wear a flower pot bottom on formal occasions, and except when pregnant, they were required to wear it on all other occasions.

Being able to walk gracefully and salute gracefully while wearing a flower pot bottom requires some tips and a lot of practice. Actually, Buerhe is quite late to start practicing this year. Most Manchu girls start wearing flower pot bottoms at the age of eight or nine. However, it is said that Ergege was weak and had been living with the old lady in the other courtyard. It is reasonable that no one taught her how to practice.

Besides, even these two who seldom left the palace often knew that the most famous person in the entire Ulanara family was the eldest princess who was posthumously named a princess, not this inconspicuous second princess. I guess the second princess was out of favor at that time and no one cared about her.

In fact, the two maids guessed correctly. Ever since the eldest princess of the Ulanara Mansion was born, she has been loved and pampered. In addition, she was interested in Chinese studies at a young age, and was good at writing poetry and songs. She was a famous talented woman in Beijing at a very young age.

The second princess, Burhe, was weak at birth, and Jueluo's youngest son, Wuge, was also very young at the time, so Jueluo didn't pay much attention to Burhe. More importantly, after giving birth to Burhe, Jueluo's body was damaged and she could no longer give birth. So Jueluo was still a little angry about the newborn Burhe. If the old lady hadn't sent a nanny to check on the newborn princess and found that the lazy servants were not serving the young master seriously, she would have taken Burhe to her own courtyard in a rage. Burhe would have died long ago.

Initially, the old lady had only intended to take Buerhe away to raise her for a while to frighten Jueluo and get her to treat the little princess more attentively. Unexpectedly, Jueluo was truly reckless at that time. After Buerhe was brought to the old lady's courtyard, she never offered to visit once. She was so focused on caring for her children that she acted as if her youngest daughter had never been born.

The old lady's heart immediately turned cold, and she never mentioned sending Buerhe back again. Even when Jueluo realized her mistake a year later and wanted to take him back to raise him, the old lady refused to agree. Moreover, after seeing Jueluo's different attitudes towards the eldest and the youngest princesses, she moved the child to a separate courtyard to protect the youngest princess from being bullied in the mansion. She had no intention of returning until this year.

In general, the Ulanara Mansion was a simple one. The old lady gave birth to two sons and one daughter. The eldest son died at the age of fifteen due to some reasons in the backyard before he got married. The eldest daughter also died of complications during childbirth within two years of her marriage. Then Ulanara Bohucha also died of illness. In the end, the old lady and Fei Yanggu, an orphan and a widow, were left in the entire mansion.

Finally, Huang Taiji could no longer bear the consequences and issued an edict, ordering Fei Yanggu to become a Baoyi Zuoling (a guard), raised in the inner court, and later appointed him a third-class imperial guard. He participated in the Korean campaign. He distinguished himself at Dalinghe and Jinzhou, earning him the rank of second-class imperial guard. He was later appointed a vanguard guard, where he pursued Tengjisi and defeated Tushetu Khan and other troops, including Heshuo Luohan. For his meritorious service, he was awarded the rank of Cavalry Commandant. He was later appointed Commander of the Imperial Guard. He also distinguished himself during the conquests of Ordos, Chahar, and Datong, earning him the title of General Manager of the Imperial Household Department. He requested an imperial decree to return to his own banner. He was later appointed Commander of the Infantry.

In this dynasty, Emperor Kangxi appointed him as the commander of the infantry of the first rank and soon promoted him to the Grand Secretary.

It was Huang Taiji who acted as a matchmaker for Fei Yanggu to marry Jueluo. When the old lady first saw such a princess with royal blood as her daughter-in-law, she was of course relieved. This showed that since she was favored by the royal family, her family would not be too bad.

Sure enough, after giving birth to a daughter, Jueluo gave birth to four sons in succession, and the Ulanara family finally became prosperous again.

However, when giving birth to her last child, Buerhe, Jueluo lost her baby immediately due to the two beautiful concubines sent by her superior, Fei Yanggu. However, she couldn't do without these concubines, so Jueluo started to make a fuss every day. The old lady tried to comfort her, but it was no use. Perhaps because she had given birth to several sons, Jueluo had the confidence to send the midwife arranged by the old lady back. For this reason, the old lady was so angry that she no longer wanted to care about Jueluo's affairs and let her do whatever she wanted.

Then problems arose when Jueluo was giving birth. One of the two concubines secretly bribed a midwife to force Jueluo to hold her breath and not push even when her cervix was fully dilated. Finally, it was Jueluo's wet nurse, Mother Wu, who discovered that something was wrong. She had the problematic midwife removed and replaced with the one prepared by the old lady. Finally, Jueluo gave birth safely, but Jueluo's body was injured as a result. She had to stay in bed for two months and no longer had any fertility.

The little princess was probably a little weak because she had been in the womb for too long. She was sickly and still not very healthy after being raised for half a year. Later, the old lady found that the maids and servants who served her were not attentive, so she took the little princess away to the old lady's courtyard.

When the little princess was three years old, she was still called "Little Princess" in the mansion. The old lady was so distressed that she gave her the name "Buerhe", which means "crane". This was also the old lady's hope for Buerhe, hoping that Buerhe would live a long and healthy life.

In fact, in the first few years after Burhe was born, her health was not very good. But after she was diagnosed with smallpox and Shuangyao's soul entered her body, Burhe's body gradually became the same as a normal child. The old lady loved the child she raised by her side and always thought she was weak, so the people in the mansion did not know that Burhe was actually very healthy over the years.

Here in Nara's mansion, Burhe is working hard to learn future survival skills. In the Yuqing Palace of the Forbidden City, the prince is now facing a more difficult problem.

Just now, Kangxi summoned Crown Prince Yinreng to the Qianqing Palace and asked him about the future Crown Princess, wanting to know what kind of girl the Crown Prince wanted to marry. This was also the reason why Kangxi had previously chosen Shi as the Crown Princess, but was later rejected, and now he had to be cautious.

At first, Kangxi wanted to discuss with the Empress Dowager and then choose a suitable girl to be the Crown Princess. However, when he went to pay his respects to Empress Xiaozhuang, he suddenly remembered what he saw when the little girl from Fei Yanggu's family came to the Cining Palace that day.

For this reason, he thought about how he had embarrassed the prince last time, and this time he wanted to give the prince a chance to choose.

After hearing what Kangxi said, Yinreng was speechless. What did he mean by "what kind of girl do you like, what kind of wife do you want?" How could his controlling father give him a chance?

Besides, he was a person who had been reborn. Now he just wanted to live freely in this life and not be confined in that small Xian'an Palace for his whole life, where he could only see the square sky. So he had never thought about getting married.

If it weren't for the fact that she was indeed old enough and Shi was his former Crown Princess, he wouldn't have agreed. Now that he knew she had chosen the Fourth Prince in this life, he would definitely not force her anymore. After all, she was also the unfortunate person who had been imprisoned in Xian'an Palace with him for a lifetime in her previous life.

It took a lot of effort for the Emperor to stop mentioning the matter, and she was also prepared to act like a love-struck person and not want to marry again, but the Emperor actually let her choose.

How should he choose? The children of the big families he was familiar with, who were able to become the prince's wife, were all his brothers and sisters in the previous life. Even if they were not the daughter-in-law of the emperor's father, they were the daughter-in-law of his uncles. These were all acquaintances. How could he make a move? Wouldn't that be disgusting?

Then, the prince directly replied that he didn't want to get married. Kangxi's face turned a little strange after hearing this: "Then why did you keep staring at the girl that day? And for so long? Don't you like her?"

"?" The prince had a puzzled look on his face. When had he ever stared at a little girl? Not even in his previous life! Those so-called rumors about him being lustful and having sex with both men and women were all just rumors spread by his brothers. In reality, he was very self-disciplined, okay?

Didn't you see that in his previous life, as a crown prince, he only had fifteen wives and concubines, and gave birth to twelve sons and one daughter? Compared to the emperor, what difference is there between him and a pure and unselfish monk?

Even compared with the fourth brother who was said to have few children in his previous life, I can't compare with him. The fourth brother had seventeen wives and concubines and fourteen children in his previous life!

But he was rumored to be the greatest pervert in the world, the most licentious prince, and the one who had no regard for sex between men and women.