Two years later.

Ma Juan was playing on the swing with her youngest daughter, Jun Fu, in the imperial garden. Jun Fu had just passed her first birthday recently.

After she was born, it can be said that being held in the hands of everyone hurt her. Yinzhen, Yinzuo, Jingfu and Jiafu all tried their best to make her happy, and became the most blessed princess in the palace.

"Er Niang, let's go together..." Jun Fu was swinging on the swing, smiling happily, and asked Lama Juan to sit on it together.

Ma Guan smiled and patted her head, so he had no choice but to sit on it and hang out with her.

"Your Majesty, be careful." Zhu Yun helped her to sit down and adjusted her position so that Jun Fu would not press her stomach.

Yuan He had already left the palace at the beginning of the year, and Ma Guan found a good marriage for her. When Yuan He left, his face was sad, and his eyes were red and swollen from crying.

"It's not in the way." Ma Guan put one arm around Jun Fu, and slightly covered her stomach with the other.

There is no way, she is pregnant with another child, and it has been more than three months. This child must be the fourteenth child.

In the past two years, the number of concubines summoned by the emperor can be counted on one's fingers. The emperor also stopped the selection of concubines that should have been the year before last.As a result, there have been no new concubines entering the palace in the past two years.

It was the empress dowager who asked to select some of the maids to enrich the harem, and only a few more people in the palace agreed.

Among these people, the Zhang Jia family who came out from the empress dowager's side was the luckiest.This Zhang Jia had originally taught the young brothers to sing and dance, and enjoyed the promised salary a few years ago, this time it is worthy of the name.

After being favored by the emperor once, she became pregnant, so Ma Guan could only find another person to teach her.

After becoming a queen, Ma Guan is more relaxed than before.In the past, there were still people who made small moves against her from time to time, but in the past two years, they have become more and more regular.

Of course, small frictions between concubines are still indispensable, but they dare not provoke her.

"Emiang, kiss." Junfu acted like a baby suddenly, holding Ma Guan's head with two small hands, and kissed her on the face.

"Then Niang has to kiss you too." Ma Juan smiled happily, Jun Fu liked to act like a spoiled child, not only kissing her, but also kissing the emperor, brothers and sisters.

Maybe that's why everyone loves her so much.

She kissed Junfu's soft little face, which made Junfu giggle.

At this moment, Caiwei walked over quickly.After Yuan He was released from the palace, she was promoted to the rank of Grand Palace Maid, and recently she was in high spirits.

"I want to report to your empress, the maids of the Compassionate Ning Palace have come to report that the Empress Dowager has contracted an illness and has already invited an imperial doctor."

Ma Guan immediately stopped the swing, and asked worriedly: "Is the situation serious? Can you tell me what's going on?"

"I'm afraid the situation is a little serious. I don't know exactly what's going on. Madam, do you want to visit?"

"Go now." Ma Yuan hurriedly stood up and told Zhu Yun, "You and the wet nurse will send Jun Fu back."

"Yes, ma'am." Zhu Yun's expression was serious, and she knew the seriousness of the matter.

The empress dowager's health has been deteriorating in the past two years. During the Chinese New Year, she took medicine for more than half a month, but she didn't expect to feel bad again recently.

"Junfu, you go back with the nurse first, Erniang will be back in a while, do you know how to be obedient?" Ma Yu hugged Junfu and whispered.

"Emiang, Junfu is obedient." Although Junfu didn't know what happened, she nodded obediently, neither crying nor making trouble.

Ma Guan smiled, and left with Caiwei and Qinghan.

When I arrived at the Palace of Compassion and Ning, I found that the atmosphere was a bit depressing, and the eunuch wanted to pass it on, but she stopped it.

When they arrived at the apse, seeing Su Mala waiting there with worried eyes, Ma Guan's heart skipped a beat.

"I've seen the empress, but I didn't expect to alarm the empress..." Seeing her coming, Su Mala hurried forward to salute.

"You are welcome, aunt. How is the imperial grandmother?" Although Ma Guan is a queen, she still respects Su Mala, and Su Mala is also very kind to her.

"Go back to your mother, the empress dowager's condition is not very good this time. After getting up in the morning, she said that she has no energy and has a headache. She only used a small amount for breakfast..." Su Mala was crying, and she served the empress. The queen mother has been with her for decades, and the relationship between the two is very close.

But this time, she clearly felt that the empress dowager's situation was really bad. If something happened to the empress dowager, she didn't want to live anymore.

"Don't worry, aunt. The imperial doctor will definitely find a solution. You can sit down for a while." Ma Guan helped her to sit down, and Su Mala wiped away her tears, her eyes filled with guilt.

"The queen's status is precious, and she is pregnant with Liujia, how dare she bother her like this? But it's a servant."

"Auntie, please don't say that. I think back when I was just a court lady, Auntie treated me very well."

"That's what slaves should do."

"There is nothing in this world that you should or should not do, it depends on a person's heart." Ma Guan smiled and patted the back of her hand, comforting her: "The Empress Dowager is auspicious, so there will be nothing wrong with her. "

As soon as she finished speaking, the imperial doctors came out, all with worried faces.

"Meet the empress."

"Pingshen. How is the Empress Dowager?" Ma Guan asked straight to the point.

"Ms. Hui, the Empress Dowager recently contracted heat and caused some other illnesses..." The imperial doctor explained in detail, Ma Guan didn't quite understand, but knew that the situation was indeed not good.

"How serious is the situation?" she asked with a frown.

"This..." Several imperial doctors looked at each other, as if they were afraid to say anything.

Ma Guan felt more and more bad, and urged: "Just say it."

Several people sighed, and finally the court judge said: "The Empress Dowager is getting old and dare not take too strong medicine. If this continues, I'm afraid she won't live for half a year."

Su Mala burst into tears on the spot, and Ma Guan was also in a heavy heart. The Empress Dowager is already 75, which is considered a long life in this era.When a person gets old, his body functions will inevitably degenerate. It is not just any medicine that will be effective.

The Empress Dowager's body is in good condition on weekdays, but now she is close to the end of her life.

"Do everything you can to treat the Empress Dowager."

"Hey." The imperial doctors responded, and lowered their heads to prescribe medicine.

Not long after, the emperor also came, and Ma Guan told the doctor's conclusion, the emperor looked downcast, but there was nothing he could do.

People are doomed to birth, old age, sickness and death, and no one can change this.

"Ma Guan." He called out suddenly.

"The concubine is here." Ma Guan held his hand, she knew that the emperor was very sad, so she could only comfort him in this way.

Kangxi stared at her face, hesitant to speak several times, and after a while he said: "You were seriously injured that year, and you said you met a fairy. Do you think the emperor's grandmother can..."

Ma Guan lowered her head, she was lying at that time, she didn't meet any fairy, only the system that brought her here.But she couldn't explain it clearly, and the system didn't have the ability to make people live forever.

Even she can only live to be a hundred years old at most.

"Your majesty, let's pray for the emperor's grandmother, maybe the gods will hear it."

Kangxi nodded slightly, knowing that this was just self-deception, and he didn't mean to blame the gods and Ma Quan. It was a great opportunity for Ma Quan to meet the gods, and this kind of opportunity is not available to everyone.

As expected, the Empress Dowager couldn't recover from her illness. Even though she took decoctions every day, she still didn't look very good.

In winter, I can't even get out of bed, and my body becomes thinner and thinner. It seems that it is time to run out of oil.

Kangxi had no choice but to start preparing for her funeral, but the Empress Dowager could think about it and was very calm all the time.

The Spring Festival in [-] was extremely cold, and the atmosphere in the palace was also very deserted, because the situation of the Empress Dowager became more and more serious, and Ma Quan and the emperor had to go to visit every day.

"You are about to give birth, why are you still running to Ai's house..." The empress dowager lost her strength after a few words, and grabbed Ma Guan's wrist with her withered and thin hands, as if she wanted to let her go.

"Grandmother, you are so sick, how can you make granddaughter-in-law feel at ease? He can understand the little guy in granddaughter-in-law's stomach, and every time granddaughter-in-law tells him to visit imperial grandmother, he responds happily." Ma Quan was gentle. Smiling, she is almost sure now that the one in her stomach is the old fourteenth.

More than two months ago, Zhang Jia gave birth to an elder brother, who was named Yinxiang by the emperor, which was clearly the name of the thirteenth elder brother.

After Zhang Jia gave birth, she was promoted by the emperor as a resident, but she was still not qualified to raise the child by herself. Just as Ma Quan was about to give birth, Ma Quan decided to take her to raise her by herself, and she happened to be with Shisi as a companion.

"You, you will make Ai's family happy." Hearing what she said, the Empress Dowager stopped chasing people away, with a smile on her face and eyes.

"Aijia is about to die, and the one in your belly is about to be born. It has been like this from generation to generation... So, even if Aijia is really gone, you don't have to be sad about it."

"Emperor Grandmother, please don't say that..." Ma Guan knew for a long time that the Empress Dowager is a very transparent person. She has assisted two generations of kings and is the most powerful woman in this dynasty.

"There is nothing that cannot be said. The Ai family has long understood, and is not afraid of death. It's just that I can't worry about the great Qing Dynasty, the emperor and you." The empress dowager patted the back of Ma Guan's hand, looking Lu was relieved.

"The first time I saw you back then, Ai Jia thought that you would either soar into the sky or fall into the dust. Later, you really came to this position step by step."

"Grandmother, granddaughter-in-law doesn't understand..." Ma Guan was surprised, she was only a maid who had just entered the palace for a few months, why did the Empress Dowager think so much of her?

The Empress Dowager smiled mysteriously: "The eyes of Aijia have read countless people, and it is rare to miss them."

Ma Guan has a deep understanding. Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy. Maybe when she is half a hundred or sixty years old, she will have such a vision.

In the next few days, Ma Guan still came to visit every day, but found that the spirit of the Empress Dowager was getting worse day by day.

As the New Year drew to a close, the Empress Dowager was able to go to the ground suddenly, and she also ate a small bowl of rice porridge.On that day, Ma Quan's heart was extremely heavy, which is probably the so-called flashback.

She went to visit with Kangxi, and walked around the yard with the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager hadn't walked on the ground for a long time, and she couldn't walk comfortably.

"Grandmother is in high spirits today, grandson-in-law will draw a picture for you." Ma Guan smiled softly, not letting tears fall.

"Don't worry about it, let the emperor paint." The empress dowager couldn't bear to see her pregnant. "If I don't paint today, I'm afraid I won't have a chance in the future."

Ma Guan had a sore nose, sure enough, the Empress Dowager also knew that this was a flashback.

"Grandmother, don't say that..." Kangxi almost cried, and helped the Empress Dowager sit down on the soft couch, with a few soft cushions behind her: "Grandmother, grandson will paint for you."

The Empress Dowager nodded with a smile, the midday sun shone on her body, she looked peaceful and serene.

The court ladies and eunuchs brought pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and Kangxi stood behind the table and began to draw carefully stroke by stroke.

"Emperor..."

"Grandmother, grandson is here."

"When the Ai family is gone, there is no need to bother to send them to Shengjing to be buried with your grandfather. The Ai family can't bear to part with you, and also can't bear to part with you Khan Ama."

The Empress Dowager sat there quietly, with a kind smile, but a little lonely.

She married that man because she loved Huang Taiji deeply, but that man only had Hai Lanzhu in his eyes.After that man passed away, she finally found her love. Dorgon held her in his hands as a treasure, but it was a pity that the name was not justified.

She didn't want to be buried with Huang Taiji, but she couldn't be buried with Dorgon, which caused Kangxi a problem.

"Grandmother, grandson has written it down." Kangxi said in a heavy tone.

"En." The empress dowager seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and her eyes fell on Ma Guan again: "The Ai family envies you, you and the emperor must be well."

"Grandmother and granddaughter-in-law have written it all down." Ma Guan clenched her fists. The empress dowager envied her because she was loved by the emperor?

"Aijia is tired and wants to rest..." The Empress Dowager slowly closed her eyes, and after she finished speaking, one hand suddenly dropped down, and she couldn't lift it up again.

"Grandma!"

"master!"

Everyone shouted loudly, and the pen in Kangxi's hand fell to the unfinished paper with a "click", staining half of the face of the person in the painting black.

All of a sudden, the maids and eunuchs all knelt down on the ground, crying bitterly.

"Imperial Grandmother..." Ma Guan burst into tears, and tremblingly grasped the Empress Dowager's hand, which was still warm, but had no pulse.

"Imperial Grandmother." Kangxi knelt in front of the Empress Dowager, his cheeks lightly pressed against her legs, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!" Not long after, the death knell sounded in the palace and spread throughout the Forbidden City.

Everyone who heard the bell had a look of grief, for the Empress Dowager had passed away.

"Ouch..." Ma Guan suddenly felt a pain in her stomach and almost fell to the ground.

"Ma Guan, what's wrong with you?" Kangxi was startled, and quickly stood up and hugged her in his arms.

"Your Majesty, my concubine wants to give birth..." Ma Yuan frowned in pain, and tightly grabbed his clothes.

Why now?Why can't we wait two more days?She hasn't kowtowed to the empress dowager yet, and she hasn't offered incense to the empress dowager...

"Persist, I'll send you back right away." Kangxi looked anxious, and he was about to hug her up as he spoke.

"Your majesty, you stay here... The imperial grandmother can't leave here... The concubine is already the sixth child and has experience... No, it's not in the way..." At this moment, Ma Guan's face turned pale from the pain , but the empress dowager just passed away, how could the emperor leave things here to guard her?

"But……"

"Your Majesty, the concubine is not going to give birth so soon... You should finish the affairs here first, and then go to see the concubine..." Ma Guan struggled to get out of his arms, and Zhu Yun and Caiwei hurriedly supported her .

Kangxi nodded slightly, and asked Liang Jiugong to send someone to carry Ma Guan back.

When Ma Guan returned to Kunning Palace, Po Wen and the imperial doctor also arrived.Although she is already familiar with this matter, the pain has not been relieved by it.

She is 29 years old this year, and she is a real old woman in this era. It is really dangerous to give birth to this child.

Fortunately, both the imperial doctor and Wen Po are very experienced, and her body has been transformed by the system, so she can live to be a hundred years old without accident, so she is not particularly worried.

When she gave birth, the five little ones from Yinzhen to Junfu all stood quietly outside the door, waiting anxiously and expectantly.Hearing her screams, the five children were nervous and distressed. Er Niang also experienced such pain back then to give birth to them, right?

"My mother is in pain..." Junfu couldn't help but shed tears and sobbed softly.

Yinzhen hugged her in his arms and comforted her: "Emiang will be safe and sound, and we will have another younger sister or younger brother by then."

"Fourth brother, does childbirth hurt like this? I'm so scared." Jingfu's face turned pale. She is seven years old this year, and she is no longer a little girl who doesn't understand anything.

"Probably, isn't it?" Yinzhen sighed softly, and patted her head.It is said that a woman's childbirth is like going around the gate of hell, which is really true.

My three younger sisters are all like flowers and jade, well-behaved and cute, and I don't know who will be taken advantage of in the future.

"Fourth brother, do you think Erniang will give birth to a younger sister or younger brother this time?" Yin Zuo took the initiative to change the subject.

"I hope to be a younger brother, so we will have three boys and three girls." Yinzhen couldn't help smiling as he looked at the group of younger brothers and sisters.

Not long after, a concubine rushed over, but was sent away by Zhu Yun. Naturally, the Empress Dowager was more important at this time.

After waiting for another hour, the emperor finally arrived, with tiredness that could not be concealed in his eyes.

"How's it going inside?" he asked eagerly.

"Going back to the emperor, your majesty has been in for more than an hour. Just now Mrs. Wen came out and said that it was a normal delivery, so there shouldn't be much problem." Zhu Yun stepped forward to report.

"That's good." Kangxi breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little bit of anticipation.

The imperial grandmother passed away today, and Ma Guan gave birth today. Could it be that the imperial grandmother was unwilling to leave, so she was reborn here in Ma Quan?

He couldn't help clenching his fists, this kind of thing would rather be believed than not believed.

"Wow..." After a while, there was a baby crying in the delivery room, everyone was stunned, and finally gave birth!

After waiting for a while, the door opened, and Mrs. Wen came out with the baby in her arms to congratulate: "Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the empress, the empress has given birth to a little brother! Mother and child are safe!"

"Okay." Kangxi's heart finally fell to the ground, and he looked at the little elder brother in her arms. The wrinkled appearance was not good-looking, but he was very kind and lovely.

Could this be the reincarnation of the imperial grandmother?

He carried the baby carefully, then entered the delivery room, and saw Ma Guan lying on the bed with a pale face.

"The child is safe and healthy, thank you for your hard work." Kangxi put the little brother next to her so that she could see it easily.

Ma Guan raised a smile: "The little guy didn't struggle for too long, and the delivery went smoothly... Your Majesty, please give him a name."

"I have already thought about it. If I am an elder brother, I will call it Yinzhen." Kangxi said happily: "It is different from the word Zhen of the fourth brother, but it is Zhen, which means good fortune and disaster, and it means auspiciousness."

"Yinzhen." Ma Yuan smiled, it was exactly the same as in history: "It's a good name. But in this way, it sounds similar to the fourth elder brother's, will it be confused?"

"That's true. But you don't have much time to call names. You can call them the fourth and the fourteenth."

Ma Guan thought about it too, it would be hard for the emperor to change his name again.

"By the way, how is the emperor's grandmother?"

Kangxi suppressed his smile, and said in a deep voice: "The mourning hall has been set up, and the emperor's grandmother left very peacefully."

With that said, he looked at Yinzhen again, with some expectation in his eyes.Although he is an elder brother, there is no rule that the gender will not change after reincarnation.

Ma Guan's heart moved, and she suddenly understood what Kangxi was thinking, but she felt that the emperor really thought too much this time.Yinzhen had consciousness before he was born, how could it be the reincarnation of the emperor's grandmother?

But she didn't point it out, so she should leave a thought for the emperor.

On the second day, she got up and went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and offered a stick of incense to the Empress Dowager.Worried about collisions, she just stood outside the door, and Su Mala inserted the incense into the incense burner.

The empress dowager's coffin is extravagant and majestic, and will be sent out after a seven-day lingering in the Compassionate Ning Palace.

"Auntie, I'm sorry, if the emperor's grandmother knows what you look like, she will definitely feel distressed." Ma Guan comforted her softly.

However, in just one day, Su Mala's hair changed from gray to silver, and she looked very haggard. It is said that she did not eat or drink all day and night.

"Let the empress worry, the servant will be fine." Su Mala squeezed out a smile.

"If you don't want me to worry, you have to take good care of your body." Ma Guan grabbed her hand, feeling cold to the bone, she was really worried that Su Mala would hit her head to death and follow the Empress Dowager.

"By the way, the emperor has decided that you will raise Elder Twelfth. Elder Twelfth is a very well-behaved child. You may be happier with him by your side."

"How does this happen? The slave is just a nanny, how can she be qualified to raise elder brother?" Su Mala's dejected face became a little angry. Did the emperor do this because he was worried about her?

What can she do?

"Auntie should know that neither the emperor nor I respect you as a nanny, but as an elder. Even if it's for the emperor, for the twelve elder brothers, you have to persevere, aunt."

"Slave...thank you for your kindness, your majesty, thank you for your kindness." Su Mala burst into tears, and swore: "Slave will definitely take good care of Twelve Elder Brothers."

"Well, the imperial grandmother must also want you to live well." Ma Guan smiled.

The day before the Empress Dowager was sent away, Ma Guan brought Yinzhen over, saying that such a young child should not suffer from bad luck, but Ma Yuan felt that the child was destined to be with the Empress Dowager, so he should come and see him off.

"Grandmother, this is Yinzhen. He came right after you left." Ma Guan patted Yinzhen's head.

As the Empress Dowager said, where there is death, there is new life, so that life can last forever.

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