Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty

"How does the emperor know that he is a little elder brother and not a little princess?"

"I don't have many princesses under my knees, but almost all of them went to marry each other. I don't want this child to have such a hard life..." Kangxi hugged Chen Xiuming into his arms, preventing her from seeing his expression.

"I'm not young anymore. If I had been ten or twenty years earlier, I would have been able to protect our princess. Now... I don't know if I can."

Chen Xiuming originally wanted to struggle to leave Kangxi's embrace, but when she heard these words, she felt as if her heart was being held and she was stunned.

Kangxi felt a little cold on his chest, but he just stroked Chen Xiuming's back without saying a word.

After adjusting her emotions, Chen Xiuming felt that she was becoming more hypocritical. Could it be that her mood fluctuated greatly because she was pregnant, and she was so sentimental...

There was no morning court on the second day, so Kangxi allowed himself to sleep very late like Chen Xiuming before waking up.

There is nothing to do if you go to the Empress Dowager's Shoukang Palace to have an early dinner.

Kangxi came here and wanted to paint for Chen Xiuming. Chen Xiuming leaned on the soft couch and read Buddhist scriptures softly. Kangxi stood behind the desk and drew on the paper with a brush.

Kangxi's calligraphy is very good, and Danqing's attainments are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

The flowing clouds and flowing water in the pen are accompanied by the faint sound of chanting sutras, and the snow outside the window is still falling, but the people in the house seem to have no time barrier, and the years are quiet.

Not long after, Chen Xiuming's face appeared vividly on the paper.Kangxi put down the pen in his hand, and carefully looked at the lazy and peaceful person on the paper. After looking at it for a while, he picked up the pen and adorned a silver lotus flower hairpin on the side of the person's hair in the painting.

Kangxi looked at it carefully and said, "Come and see, I'm fascinated."

Listening to Kangxi's words, Chen Xiuming looked up and saw Kangxi waving to him, just like the cats and dogs in Zhaoqi Zoo.

Chen Xiuming got up and walked over to have a look, what Kangxi painted was not the scenery of the palace, but a veranda of a pool of lotus flowers...

"It is said that if life is just like meeting you for the first time, now I will repay you for meeting you for the first time." Kangxi smiled helplessly. When he first heard Chen Xiuming, he still wanted to find a good marriage for her, but he didn't want to end up with himself. accepted her.

Deep palace is not easy...

"What did the Lord Long live say? It was also a coincidence that the concubine went out that day, and presumably it was due to the different fate between the concubine and the other people." Chen Xiuming laughed.

Kangxi felt relieved after hearing what Chen Xiuming said, and asked Chen Xiuming to draw some flowers and plants. After giving some advice and criticism, he ordered someone to take it and frame it and hang it in Zhaoren Hall.

So two days later it was the Laba Festival, and Kangxi went to share the Laba porridge early on. Chen Xiuming's Laba porridge was used in the Queen Mother's palace when Kangxi took it to pay her respects.

Kangxi had been busy for some days, and got up early in the morning on New Year's Eve, and took his courtiers and concubines to Bingxi's Taiye Pond. Because of the inconvenience of the Queen Mother and Chen Xiuming, he told him to go later.

After dressing up, the Queen Mother also sent someone over.

Chen Xiuming put on a white fox fur cloak, and the collar and cloak with piping made Chen Xiuming look very cute.After getting dressed, Nanny Su helped Chen Xiuming to go outside.

As soon as Chen Xiuming stepped out of the door with one foot and stepped on the ground, she felt her foot slipping. When her left foot hurt, she fell backwards. Thanks to the quick response of Su Momo and the people behind her, Chen Xiuming didn't fall to the ground .

"Mommy, I'm fine, but my left foot hurts." Chen Xiuming said hurriedly when she saw Su Nanny's pale face.

"Hurry up and take your mother to lie down, and invite Zhou Taiyi to report to the Queen Mother and the Emperor." Su Momo calmed down and ordered calmly, except for Chen Xiuming who was holding her hand, no one knew Su Momo Already scared hands shaking and sweating.

Li Yue also had the strength to hug Chen Xiuming directly, surrounded by a group of court ladies and eunuchs, and put Chen Xiuming safely on the bed.

At this time, Su Momo and Liu Momo took off Chen Xiuming's shoes and socks. After careful inspection, they found that there was no redness and swelling, and they had no choice but to wait for the imperial doctor to arrive.

The Empress Dowager knew the news of Chen Xiuming's fall when Doctor Zhou was on the way, and hurried to Yongshou Palace.

"Emperor Niang, why are you here?" Chen Xiuming lay on the bed for a while and felt that her ankle didn't hurt so much.

"It's the same with your child. Why did you fall? Is there a serious problem?" The Queen Mother asked while sitting on the chair beside the bed.

"It's nothing serious, it's just that my ankle hurt a little before, but it doesn't hurt anymore." Chen Xiuming's words were also very relaxed. .”

"The Ai family waits for the imperial physician to check the pulse before going, don't worry, and bring a message to the emperor."

So the Empress Dowager waited until the imperial physician Zhou and another imperial physician who was good at sprains checked the pulse and looked at Chen Xiuming's sore left ankle. Finally, she concluded that there was nothing serious, and she only needed to drink some anti-fetal medicine. acceptable conclusion.As for the wound on the foot, just apply medicine externally.

After hearing this, the Queen Mother set off for Taiye Pool. Kangxi, who was far away in Taiye Pool, heard the news and dropped an unstable cup in his hand.

Li Dequan gave Kangxi another cup. Seeing that everyone below was carefully looking at the situation here, Kangxi had to pretend to be calm and took the cup handed over by Li Dequan.

Although Kangxi was very calm on the surface, he was anxious in his heart, but he couldn't break the rules and return to the palace at this time.

Li Dequan also understood Kangxi's thoughts at this time, so he quietly ordered someone to inquire about Chen Xiuming's news, and returned to Kangxi's side, "Long live Lord, don't worry, the palace hasn't delivered any news yet, I think the imperial concubine is fine. of."

Even though Li Dequan tried to persuade her like this, she still had no idea, if the imperial concubine was afraid of breaking a taboo at the end of the new year and suppressing the news, it would be really bad in the palace, what should I do?

Kangxi's preference for Chen Xiuming, but Li Dequan saw it in his eyes and kept it in his heart, not to mention that Kangxi also valued the child in Chen Xiuming's belly very much. If something really happened today, Kangxi might have to... think Can't imagine.

Kangxi hid the wry smile on his lips by drinking tea. While worrying endlessly, he could only deceive himself with Li Dequan's words...

Just when Kangxi was anxiously waiting again, the Empress Dowager came back, only hearing the voice of the Empress Dowager Fengjia, Li Dequan felt a thump in his heart.

The queen mother sat down next to Kangxi and said, "The imperial concubine is fine, the emperor is at ease, just twisted his feet and rested, the pain was gone before Ai's family left."

It wasn't until then that Kangxi's heart fell.

Chen Xiuming, who had seen Bingxi once, could only lie down quietly in the Yongshou Palace now, and Kangxi came when he was about to have dinner after lying down for a long time.

Kangxi stayed in Taiye Pond for a long time, although the queen mother said that Chen Xiuming was fine, but Kangxi was still worried, and went straight to Yongshou Palace as soon as he returned to the palace.

"It's fine, I heard from the queen mother that if I sprained my foot, it still hurts?" Kangxi spoke in a relaxed tone, just like usual, but his frowning revealed nervousness.

"It doesn't hurt anymore, why did Lord Long Live come to my concubine?" Chen Xiuming originally thought that Kangxi would come at night.

"You are my noble concubine, today is your first New Year's Eve in the palace, you should go out and sit down anyway."

Kangxi sat in Yongshou Palace until Li Dequan reminded him that it was time to go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and then drove Chen Xiuming, who was wearing court clothes, in a sedan chair.

This year's New Year's Eve banquet is held in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.There are two reasons, one is that it will be very cold this year if there is heavy snow outside the house, and the other is that the Queen Mother and Chen Xiuming are inconvenient, so there will be a lot of inconvenience outside the palace.

When they arrived at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, they heard the sound of greetings, and after Kangxi called out, they each took their seats.As the imperial concubine, Chen Xiuming sat on the lower head of Kangxi, and there was no one facing her.The next seat is Concubine De...

This time, Chen Xiuming looked at the luck of the people in the hall and found that there had been some changes.

Except for Kangxi's five-clawed golden dragon coiled on a pillar, which is still familiar, both Prince Yong and Prince Li have changed.

Prince Yong's black snake has the first appearance of the dragon's horns, and its body is no longer all black scales but mixed with some golden scales. The golden and black scales are intertwined like patterns.

The golden scales on Prince Li's four-clawed golden dragon had faded to cyan, which seemed to be decaying.

The rest of the princes were covered with snakes of various colors, but with different shapes and shapes.

The concubine's body is also full of clouds, but the color is a little darker.

The courtiers under the seat have plants besides the cloud shape, and Chen Zhongchu already has green bamboo on his body...

Chen Xiuming looked around for a while and then looked away. The dishes on Chen Xiuming's table were all dishes that were ordered by the Imperial Dining Room to be eaten and suitable for Chen Xiuming's appetite.

This year it was much warmer to have a banquet in the hall, Chen Xiuming enjoyed it even before dinner.

Chen Xiuming only sat at the banquet for an hour (two hours) before Kangxi asked her to send the queen mother back. The queen mother and Chen Xiuming walked for a while, got into the sedan chair and drove them back to the palace.

It was past midnight when Kangxi went to Yongshou Palace that night (from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] am), but he didn’t rest in Yongshou Palace. He sat by the bed and watched Chen Xiuming for a while, then got up and drove back to Qianqing Palace.

The second day was the first day of the lunar new year, and the sound of whips sounded in front of the Qianqing Palace before dawn. After the three whips, the courtiers entered the Qianqing Palace to have an audience, washing away a year of idleness, and starting a busy year.

Chen Xiuming also got up early, washed up and went to the main hall to receive greetings from the concubines with porridge.

Seeing the ceremony, chatting, giving the gift for the first day of this year, and then went to the Queen Mother's Palace to pay her respects, and the Queen Mother also sent the concubines back after giving the gift.

This time the queen mother did not even stay with Chen Xiuming. Chen Xiuming twisted her foot yesterday and was tired again, so the queen mother asked Chen Xiuming to go back to rest.

Chen Xiuming did not rest immediately after returning to Yongshou Palace. Instead, she looked at the things in her warehouse and made a list for Mammy Liu to pick them up.

The things Chen Xiuming picked out were sent to Chen Zhongchu. Before Kangxi ordered Chen Qishan to be transferred back to Beijing to be the left servant of the household department.Chen Qishan wasn't at the banquet yesterday, and I'm afraid it should be the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month.

After counting the things in person, Chen Xiuming took a rest, only to see if Kangxi would come to Yongshou Palace for dinner, and if he came, Chen Xiuming told Kangxi to send these things out of the palace.

If Kangxi doesn't come today, Chen Xiuming will wait until the next time Kangxi comes to say this.

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small theater:

Chen Xiuming: Kangkang, I fell

Kangxi: oh

Chen Xiuming: I fell...

Kangxi: Oh, I see

Chen Xiuming: You're not worried about me! ! ! (slaps wildly)

Kangxi: Daughter-in-law, I was wrong! ! ! (Crying and offering lucky money)

Update early today, save the manuscript in the afternoon, I wish you a happy Children's Day oh oh oh oh

Remember to eat candy on June [-]~~~