Secrets of Yuqing Palace

After entering the house, the family of four was finally reunited.

Wanyu looked at her two sons with tears in her eyes, her heart filled with excitement.

She suppressed her nervousness and excitement and asked carefully.

"Yuanshou, you are outside the palace now. Your identity cannot be known to others."

"Here, can you call us dad and mom like Honggui?"

Honggui's attention was all on his mother at the moment, and he didn't notice the slight change in Hongli and his father's expressions after hearing his mother's words.

In addition, the reasons given by his mother were very sufficient, so he had no doubts at all.

But after my mother finished speaking, she turned and looked at Hongli.

He teased with a smile, "Fourth brother?"

"You've really become my fourth brother now!"

Hongli's lips moved several times, but he couldn't open his mouth.

Wanyu felt a little lost.

Is it because he was given to his second sister after he was born, so he resents her and Baocheng in his heart, and is therefore unwilling to call them father and mother?

Looking at the loss and sadness on his mother's face, and thinking of her love and pampering for him when he was a child, Hongli nervously called out "Mother" in a low voice.

The tears that Wanyu had been holding back suddenly flowed uncontrollably. She walked forward and gently hugged Hongli before letting go of his hands.

"Hey!"

"Good boy."

Seeing that she was crying uncontrollably, Hongli quickly took out a handkerchief and handed it to her.

"Don't cry, wipe it off quickly."

Wanyu felt warm in her heart, and she took the handkerchief with a smile through her tears and held it tightly in her hand. She was reluctant to wipe away her tears and didn't want to dirty the handkerchief.

Seeing that his mother's mood changed so much because of Hongli, Honggui said with some jealousy and grievance.

"Didn't Fourth Brother just call you Mother? Why are you crying?"

"My son hasn't seen me for so many years, why aren't I so excited?"

"Hmph~ Now that you have a fourth brother, you don't love me anymore."

Wanyu burst into laughter and went forward to hug Honggui.

Then she said angrily, "Mother, of course I don't love you."

"You are brothers, you are all my children, I love you all equally."

"You're already thirty, and you're still so petty."

Yinreng also laughed and said, "You little brat, your mother hasn't seen you for a long time. She is so happy to see you two that she is crying."

"Don't make such a fuss about nothing. You're just trying to make your mother unhappy."

Honggui has always been a lively and cheerful person, not a person who is overly thoughtful.

So when I heard what Ama said, I didn’t think much about it.

I was just a little jealous just now.

He felt that his mother loved Hongli more than him.

But it was just a quick subconscious murmur, and he didn't really feel that his father and mother didn't love him.

So he just hummed and didn't bother with it anymore.

The atmosphere inside is still warm.

The family of four talked about things in Beijing, mainly asking about Hongli.

Wanyu: "Yuanshou, how is your mother now?"

Hongli said gently, "Mother is very good. After arranging the concubines for our father, she almost stopped interfering in the affairs of the harem."

"Also, my mother felt that the harem was too noisy, so she lived in the Old Summer Palace for most of the year."

Wanyu asked hesitantly, "How is the Queen? Is she still behaving?"

"And how are Hajilan, Yonglian and the other two siblings? Are they healthy?"

Hongli smiled and said, "Everything is fine. The Queen manages the harem very well and is very kind to the concubines below. No one dares to provoke the Queen."

"The children are in good health, mother, don't worry."

When talking about the queen and several legitimate sons and daughters, tenderness flashed in Hongli's eyes.

Then he continued, "By the way, there is another good news."

"Before I left the palace, the Queen was diagnosed with a two-month pregnancy."

"When Mother learned that I was going to Jiangnan, she was worried about the Empress, so she returned to the palace from the Old Summer Palace so that the Empress could rest assured and take care of her pregnancy. She personally took care of the Empress's pregnancy and temporarily took over the palace affairs."

Wanyu then breathed a sigh of relief and was happy to hear that the queen was pregnant again.

At least it's different from history.

Not only was the choice of queen different, but even the offspring changed.

She remembered that in history, Fucha gave birth to several children, but only one daughter survived, and the rest of the children died in infancy.

Now that she heard that the children were all fine and that the queen was pregnant again, she felt much more relieved.

Yinreng suddenly asked, "How are the concubines in your harem? Are there many high-ranking ones?"

Hongli didn't think much about it and just said it directly.

"Khan Mafa once issued an order regarding the imperial concubines: they could not exceed the rank of noble ladies, and they could not raise the emperor's heirs. I have kept these in mind."

Honggui, however, pursed his lips.

"What about that imperial concubine? Don't you love her very much?"

Wanyu frowned and asked, "Royal Concubine?"

Hongli said a little embarrassedly: "Third brother is talking about Gao Bin's daughter."

"Gao was originally a princess from my backyard. In the twelfth year of Yongzheng's reign, she was canonized as a concubine."

"Gao Bin's river management was beneficial to the country and the people. I was promoted from the Baoyi Banner to the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner. After entering the palace, Gao was also named a noble concubine."

Yinreng scolded with an unhappy look: "Stupid!"

I don’t know whether he is referring to the late Emperor Yongzheng or the current Emperor Qianlong.

Being scolded by the father whom he had always admired and respected, Hongli felt hesitant and at a loss.

Seeing Yinreng's angry face, Hongli was at a loss.

Wanyu immediately glared at Yinreng.

"Why are you so fierce?"

"The child doesn't know the truth!"

"Furthermore, if Fourth Brother had not appointed Gao as his concubine, Hongli would not have given her such a high position upon entering the palace."

Wanyu felt sorry for the fourth brother in her heart. After all, if Hongli had not requested the title, Yinzhen would not have taken the initiative to propose the appointment of a concubine, and she was just a princess of bondservant origin.

But who can blame Hongli for being his own child?

People are biased, and it is understandable that she favors her own children more.

Although Yinreng could understand Hongli's ignorance, it made him even more unhappy.

Because he thought of what Yu'er said about the future generations, many things started from the Qianlong period.

Now that he has not grasped Khan Ama's good intentions in formulating the new rules, I am worried that he will make even more serious mistakes in the future.

But it was obvious that Yu'er couldn't bear to see him scolding his son.

He had no choice but to suppress his unhappiness and prepare to tell him the secrets of the palace.

"Do you know why you, Khan Mafa, made new regulations regarding the banner concubines?"

Hongli said with a serious face: "Because of the corruption of the Baoyi in the palace back then."

He also remembered that under the new regulations of that year, if a bondservant woman became a palace concubine, her family would no longer be able to serve in the palace.

For Hongli, Gao Bin no longer served in the palace after the fourth year of Yongzheng's reign.

He had been serving in the previous dynasty and had not worked in the palace for a long time. It was impossible for him to commit corruption in the harem, so he did not take this matter to heart at all.

Yinreng shook his head with disappointment.

He then told Hongli about the Baoyi's control over the royal heirs, the murder of concubines in the palace, and their use of people in the palace to seize the throne, etc. He also told Hongli about the Baoyi's ambition and madness.

Hongli and Honggui were both shocked.

They didn't expect that a little bondservant could be so bold.

Especially when he heard that Khanmafa's three queens and many of his children who died young were related to the bannermen, he felt even more frightened.