Returning the Pearl and the Reborn Emperor

Beads of sweat dripped from the forehead of the little eunuch who reported, and hurriedly shouted the words "The empress is here" from his throat, then bowed his head and stepped aside, trying to reduce his sense of existence.

Qing Ting quickly adjusted her expression, a little serious, and saw the servant kneeling on the ground as soon as she entered the room.Concubine Ling walked forward a few steps and saluted her: "My slave pays respects to Empress Empress."

"You don't need to be too polite." Qing Ting walked towards Qianlong, pretending to be puzzled, "Your Majesty, before I came in, I heard 'Ge Ge Ji Xiang' shouting loudly in the room, what's the matter?"

Qianlong coughed in embarrassment and said, "The child is awake."

Qing Ting raised her eyebrows, smiled slightly, and asked: "She has told the emperor everything? How did she come here all these years, how did she go to the paddock?"

Concubine Ling interjected: "Empress Empress, Gege just woke up, so there's no time to say anything."

Qing Ting was displeased, but she only said, "What's her name, and when is her birthday, didn't you tell me?"

Concubine Ling replied with a gentle expression on her face, "Gege said in her dream that her name is Little Swallow. She was born on the first day of August, and she was born in the year of Renxu. Everything is right."

Qianlong also laughed and said: "Her surname is Xia, and Yuhe's surname." He was also there when Little Yanzi muttered those words in his dream, but he forgot to tell the queen afterwards.

Qing Ting looked at Little Yanzi. Little Yanzi was lying on the bed, her face was pale, but her eyebrows were delicate and heroic, but no matter how you looked at it, she didn't resemble Qianlong at all.She smiled at her and walked over to the bed.Whether it is in time or not now, it depends on whether this little swallow is fascinated by the vanity and wealth of having a father and being a princess.She tried her best to speak softly, and said, "Little Yanzi, did your mother give you the fan and painting? Where is your mother?"

Little Yanzi saw that Qing Ting's attitude was still gentle and she didn't look bad, so she said, "The fan and painting were given by my mother, who has passed away." She added, "A year ago."

Qing Ting sighed, she said that Ziwei gave it to her, and nothing will happen at this time, it seems that this girl has gradually stepped into a magic barrier. "I don't have a mother to rely on. It's pitiful. Little Yanzi, are you from Jinan? How did you and your mother get here all these years?"

Little Swallow rolled her eyes, and replied: "Empress, I am from Jinan, and my mother and I depend on each other... Fate, before my mother passed away, I was asked to come to the emperor. I...cough cough..."

Qianlong hurriedly said: "Don't talk yet. Empress, I have already asked about the matter you asked just now. She is not feeling well now, so I will talk about it later."

When Qianlong said this, Qing Ting couldn't object, but she was surprised, why Xiao Yanzi said that it was Xia Yuhe who wanted her to come to the emperor, not Xia Ziwei.

Concubine Ling followed Qianlong's words and said with a smile: "Just now, the emperor has recognized Gege and his daughter."

It turned out that I was still a step late, just now Qianlong asked Xiaoyanzi if he wanted him as a father, and Xiaoyanzi immediately agreed, while Lingfei kept making troubles to add to the fun.Very good, very good, Concubine Ling, you really don't think of me as a queen.Little Yanzi is actually not in a daze, even if she was a little dazed at first, but seeing so many people bowing down to her, and having the emperor's father love her, it is difficult for her to tell the truth, and she just wants to "borrow" her father, That's why when Qing Ting asked her, she lied instinctively, and the lie was like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.Qing Ting was vigilant secretly, fearing that things would be difficult to get better in the future, and the queen's doom would also begin from here.

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Qing Ting complained to Qianlong: "Why did the emperor forget what he discussed before and just accept it like this?" She secretly said in her heart: I want to die quickly, as an old villain, I want seven lives.Qing Ting's habit of swearing in her native dialect is similar to that of the Qing emperor in Manchu.

Qianlong moved his sleeves and said with a smile: "At that time, I was in a sudden situation. Alas, I couldn't help it. If the queen was present at that time, I wouldn't be able to help it."

Qing Ting had no choice but to say: "Now it will take some time to talk to Huang Erniang about this matter. Fortunately, I told Qing'er first. Because of this matter, Huang Erniang will not be too angry." She could only involuntarily want Little Swallow's life.

"Empress, please worry more." Qianlong suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and changed the subject, "Empress, please help me rub my shoulders, it's getting more and more sore recently."

"Hey." Qing Ting was helping him with a massage, feeling helpless, Qianlong was already a little twitchy, but now that the main plot has started, she still doesn't know what it will be like.Qing Ting wanted to say something, but found that her language was so lacking, or that she had nothing to say to Qianlong, who was brain-twitching.But as a queen, and for herself at the same time, she should say something and do something.However, there is no rush right now.Qing Ting suppressed her anger and dissatisfaction. "Your Majesty, are you going to turn over the brand name of Lingfei's younger sister? I'll use the seal while it's convenient (bian)."

Qianlong said: "Forget it, let her take good care of the little Yanzi. Today I want Concubine Ying to sleep with me. I will go to her place to see Jiugege first...Little Yanzi, this name...Why did Yuhe give her daughter such a name? name." Qianlong murmured in his heart.

Qing Ting said with a smile: "Maybe there is no formal name, why not think of a good name for the little Yanzi?" I'm afraid Concubine Ying will be angry enough to suffer tonight, and she will have to find a way to comfort her tomorrow. , this is an honest person, she looks pleasing to the eye.

Qianlong vetoed her proposal, saying: "This is the name her mother gave her, leave a thought, I don't want to take away her thought."

Qing Ting had no choice but to agree: "What the emperor said is true. The relationship between mother and daughter is determined by the heavens. The name given to the child by the mother cannot be easily changed. If the emperor regrets that he failed to give the little swallow an auspicious name

, it's better to wait for the little swallow to marry the forehead and give birth to a grandson in the future before giving the name. "

Qianlong laughed, thinking that the queen's idea was good.

Qing Ting said again: "Your Majesty, just now in the Yanxi Palace, you recognized your daughter, and the movement is so big, I'm afraid it has spread all over the palace. Maybe at this moment, people are already saying everywhere, Xin Gege is following you!" Its appearance was carved out of a mold."

Qianlong didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "Isn't it, I think so too."

"Your Majesty." Qing Ting looked dumbfounded, "You really forgot what you said before, and now these words are passed around, to the ears of the empress, to the ears of the clan, and finally to the Palace, spread to the people, you say, how should this public case be settled?"

Qianlong was at a loss for words, he didn't know what it was wrong to be romantic, but he didn't want to be rumored to be lecherous and vulgar. If he didn't have any taboos, he wouldn't have to use the name of "righteous daughter" to recognize his illegitimate daughter, and raise him with his daughter. The rich lady in her boudoir, after the cloud and rain, allowed the woman to give birth out of wedlock and raise a daughter alone, this kind of thing can't be brought to the table at all. "I, didn't it mean that I didn't want to wrong my children at that time. I have never taken care of their mother and daughter all these years. Now that Yuhe is gone, I can only regret for the rest of my life, and I can't let my daughter down again."

"But you let the Queen's mother hear that this happened in the palace, how should she react? The Queen's mother went to Wutai Mountain to worship Buddha and pray for blessings for the sake of the Qing Dynasty and the royal family, and she asked for this public case. Originally, it was not good. Now we can only keep these words from getting out." Then, Qing Ting changed her tone, and sternly said to the waiter, "Give me orders, whether it is Kunning Palace or Yanxi Palace, say Whatever you say or what happens, don’t let it out, if I hear something that shouldn’t be said or is not ear-catching the next day, you should be careful one by one, I have a lot of time to settle accounts with slaves who hate their lives.”

Qianlong's face was gloomy, and he added: "He who dares to talk too much, I will make his life worse than death, and pass on the original words of me and the empress, and don't make a single mistake." The royal family is not for people to laugh at, and the emperor's reputation is also The most important thing is that Qianlong has made a wish since he ascended the throne: to be a perfect emperor, to leave a story that has never been seen before or since. If the flaws of an illegitimate daughter affect the realization of his dream, it is absolutely impossible. of.

Qing Ting laughed at herself secretly: I am really lucky, all the old wives who travel through time are disgusting, and they all have their nemesis.Qing Ting believes that nine out of ten of the mysterious power that controls everything in the dark is the power of men, because the mysterious power always helps men, so it can be seen that the sky is not fair. If the sky is fair, why have these thousands of years In the meantime, the situation of women has become more and more pitiful.

But this matter made Qing Ting feel angry in the end. Seeing that Qing Ting was holding a meditation cup, she didn't take a sip of tea for a long time. She was in a daze. After a while, she heard her sigh.

gas.Seeing her come back to her senses, Mother Rong said: "Master, what's wrong with you, you are just an illegitimate child who can't get into the jade certificate, and you are still a daughter, why are you so depressed, look at yourself Hey, I have slept soundly and eaten safe meals in the past few days."

Qing Ting sneered, and said: "I also want to live in peace and stability, but how can I live in peace now. What about a child, which one of the emperor's flesh and blood has I treated badly, but this one, I feel evil." She is a Xibei product, a so-called "innocent and brilliant" little swallow who actually has a lot of small ideas, but Qianlong is willing to hang around her.

Rong Rong frowned and said: "Master, I'm afraid that if this illegitimate child is raised in Yanxi Palace, he will become a person there. It seems that the emperor is very rare about her. This is not to help that one. An illegitimate child is nothing. If the emperor likes it, he will like it. Originally, the emperor loves Gege even more, but he will also benefit from letting that one go. That person is already in the limelight. If this continues, I don't know how to be proud."

"She'd better get carried away." Qing Ting sneered, "Be more careful over there."

"Whoo."

Only then did Qing Ting take a sip of tea, and sighed: "I really feel that I am really unlucky, forget it, let's not talk about it."

Mother Rong came up with an idea: "Master, why don't you invite Lang Gege to play chess to relieve boredom, or else explain Buddhist scriptures."

Qing Ting shook her head: "I'm restless, it's hard to concentrate on playing chess, and I don't have sincerity in preaching."

Nanny Rong is in a dilemma. The queen clearly has something on her mind because of that Ye Gege. In her opinion, there is nothing wrong with the queen's handling of this matter. Moreover, since it is handed over to the concubine Ling, the queen does not need to worry about many things. Why? The empress always looks preoccupied.

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The little Yanzi is in good health, and the injury is not serious, and she can get out of bed in a short time. The concubine sees Qianlong's Qingmu and her, and because of her, she runs to her more, so she is very happy to show the little Yanzi Well, we have prepared silks and satins and precious jewelry for Little Swallow, and took Little Swallow to relax in the Imperial Garden. Unsurprisingly, the comedies of "Pull the Weeds" and "If it's not Ge Ge" were staged, as well as Elder Brother, Ge Ge Drinking and laughing with a companion is not shy at all.

Seeing Qing Ting's ambiguous smile, Mother Rong was puzzled, and asked, "Master, there is obviously something wrong with this, if it's Ge Ge, why did you say this, master, tell me, should we ..."

Qing Ting said: "What should I do, tell the emperor that the 'relict pearl of the sea' might be a fish-eye ball? As long as I show this kind of meaning, I will bear all the anger of the emperor." And this anger has continued for many years, making I die without a place to die.

"Then what do you mean, master, just leave it alone?"

"Manage it, there must be a way to manage it, we can't manage it, and we can't

Be rash. "Qing Ting pressed her temples, and said silently in her heart: Coventry, just like Coventry in World War II, someone has to be a victim. She suddenly smiled brightly, Yong Qi still doesn't know that Little Swallow is not her sister, but she has already treated her With a different feeling, this child is too courageous.

"Your Majesty?" Mother Rong was puzzled.

"Mother Rong, let's go to the Palace of Compassion and Ning. The Queen Mother is not in the palace, but the Palace of Compassion and Ning has to take good care of it. There are also eunuchs and eunuchs left by the Queen Mother to guard the Palace of Compassion and Ning. We can't neglect them. They are all respectable old people. It's gone." After the Empress Dowager left, Qing Ting often went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to tell those nuns, eunuchs, grand ladies and the like to pay attention to diet and so on. The matter must be fueled in front of the empress dowager, but it cannot be ignited by her alone.

"Hey, in this palace, in terms of filial piety, besides the emperor, you are the first one." Rong Nuo smiled while supporting her wrist.

Qing Ting thought: I really don’t want to show my filial piety here, I want to go back to the world I should be in, be a heartless daughter, extort money from my father, and go to foreign websites to bid for the first edition of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" , I miss JB's Sherlock Holmes. I only watched the first season of the new BBC version of Sherlock Holmes. I don't want to break the case of true and false here. If I have to talk about filial piety, I just want to be filial to my mother.It's a pity that the sky didn't fulfill her wishes, Qing Ting still has to continue to be a queen, she can only complain about it, all she can do is to accept all the life here with peace of mind, and bet on whether she will be the queen mother, if her life can be good One point, at least let her go back to the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China to solve her marriage problems. She doesn't want to have unfinished business with herself.

Although the two nuns left behind in the Compassion Ning Palace are not as good as Nanny Gui in front of the Empress Dowager, they are also one of the most capable people in front of the Empress Dowager. At her age, the Empress Dowager does not worry about being plotted against her by others, but she does not like to be judged by others. The empress can't interfere with placing a master by her side to influence her thoughts.

It is said in "Dream of Red Mansions" that cats and dogs in the houses of the elders in big families are all honorable, and the young masters who serve the old lady should give some face.In the palace, although the emperor and empress are honorable, the rules must be followed, and the emperor and empress will still give face to the people around the empress dowager.Qing Ting talked about Qing'er's letter, that the empress dowager was all right on the mountain, and what items she was going to send to the mountain. At the same time, she also said that there were a lot of things for the entourage who went with her. And the people from Madam Du's family.

As we talked, we talked about Xin Gege. The slaves don’t talk too much about the master’s affairs. The two nuns have never seen the little Yanzi with their own eyes. There are no too outrageous behaviors yet, but it is enough to make the mothers in the palace frown. Contacting Xia Yuhe's pregnancy before marriage, it can be seen that tutoring is not good.

Mother Qiu said cautiously

: "Empress, Lafayette may not like this princess very much. I don't know how well-behaved this princess is. Lafayette always likes well-behaved girls."

Qing Ting said: "I heard from the emperor that her mother is a lady of a great family. Since she came from a big family, at least the rules of the big family are followed. Now that the concubine Ling is taking care of her, the concubine Ling's rules are not bad."

Not only Mother Qiu and Mother Du were muttering in their hearts, but even Mother Rong was saying in her heart that no big family would take it seriously if they didn't get pregnant out of wedlock. If they really obeyed the rules, why would they drink with elder brother and slaves in the Imperial Garden? Can't wait for everyone to know.

Everyone thinks, Empress, do you intend to let this foreign Gege learn the rules? If you don't learn the rules, Lafayette will not eat her alive by then.

Qing Ting didn't want Little Swallow to learn the rules, she just didn't want her own people to take over, and she didn't really want the empress dowager's people to be unlucky, anyway, Qianlong's wet nurse was still working in the palace, and her granddaughter was by Qianlong's side Grand palace lady, Qianlong promised repeatedly to make the girl marry well in the future, and let her out of the palace a few years ago, both grandparents and grandchildren are very well-behaved people, and they are also good at teaching the rules.No matter what, it will make Qianlong bleed, whoever let him be moved indiscriminately, and recognize his daughter indiscriminately.

Qing Ting has a lot of things in her hands. Concubine Chun is lingering on the sick bed, and her body will not be very good when the weather changes. Seeing that Si Gege is about to leave the cabinet, there can be no accidents at this time, so Concubine Chun's illness must be delayed for a longer period of time; Staring at her, she can't fall into the root cause of the disease because of serving the biological mother; the two sons are encouraged and educated by her to become more daring, and the masters who dare to speak out their whimsy in the Shang study directly lose their hair.So she let the little Yanzi go happily in the palace, anyway, if something happened, the concubine Ling would take care of it.

She doesn't care much about Little Swallow. Qianlong is happily discussing the grade of Little Swallow. He Shuo Gege is an agreement between him and the queen. Although it can't be canonized yet, there should be some preparations in advance. To give Little Swallow a unique title, to discuss matters of Gege, it is natural to announce the relevant ministers, Fu Heng is indispensable, since Ji Xiaolan is known as a talented scholar, of course it cannot be used as a decoration, and people from the Ministry of Rites, Everything related to the grade title is present.

Fu Heng felt sad. A wild swallow flew from the place where his sister died, and the emperor was still in high spirits. An emperor would not think too much about his subjects, but he always declared that he and the Empress Yuan had a deep affection. Deep love never lasts long, too deep feelings will disappear soon, and the heart has long since lost that kind of affection is true.

Don't think too much about the result of this matter, return the princess.Qianlong talked about the title to Qing Ting enthusiastically, and Qing Ting thought: This is worthy of the name, the real world of returning pearls.

"I want to place Little Swallow in Shufangzhai. She is from the common people, so she is definitely not used to the rules in the palace, and she is just recovering from her injuries. It's better to let her relax." Qianlong said.

Since this is the case, Qing Ting will not impose

Block, openly oppose. "What the emperor said is that if the whole set of rules is suddenly imposed on little Yanzi, I am afraid that she will become timid towards the palace first, which will make her unbeautiful. However, the rules must always be learned. Your majesty, you often praise your concubine and sister for being virtuous and virtuous. Courteous, gentle and amiable, since the little Yanzi is close to her as soon as she enters the palace, if not, I will leave it to the concubine Ling." Qing Ting smiled very gently, "Your Majesty, since the little Yanzi's injury is almost healed, We should also let her meet with others, everyone is familiar with each other, the married woman waits first, but the concubines in the palace, the married ones are respectful and gentle, and the little four and Laner who are still in the palace, the sisters should always Close relatives, Qing'er is now by the side of Huang'er Niang, and the two girls will get to know each other later."

Qianlong was a little embarrassed. He had to explain to the children the issue of romantic debts several years ago, especially to He Jing. He felt a little guilty. He really couldn't say "this is the new sister/sister" like he did to other children. Just like he couldn't calmly let He Jing treat Concubine Ling as his concubine mother, at this moment he remembered that the place where Xiaoxian died was Shandong.