[Qing Chuan] The Empress Dowager Raising Cubs Daily

The next day, the Empress Dowager fell ill.

The trustworthy Kangxi changed his face, and he came to visit the first time, not to mention, but decided to serve and take care of the Empress Dowager himself.After finishing speaking, Kangxi reached out to take the medicine bowl, and planned to feed the Empress Dowager the medicine with his own hands.

Qiqige stopped Kangxi.

She said righteously: "It is enough to have the Ai family and the queen here, the emperor should hurry up and get busy with your business? Recently, the officials of the weaving government seem to be very busy."

Kangxi frowned: "But——"

Qiqige pushed him out of the door without waiting for him to speak: "Don't make trouble here, go go go go go go go go!"

Let Kangxi leave like chasing flies.

It wasn't until watching Kangxi leave that Qiqige secretly breathed a sigh of relief.At the same time she closed the door, the Empress Dowager who was lying on the sickbed also sat up and fanned the wind with a fan: "Hey! I was so scared that Aijia was sweating all over."

It was the first time that the empress dowager lied to the emperor.

Qiqige was also a little guilty, she coughed clearly: "It's okay, it's okay, it's the first time for everyone!"

Immediately afterwards, Qiqige was still a little distressed: "I just thought that the Queen's mother would be sick for a longer time, but the emperor..."

Before he finished speaking, the door opened again.

Kangxi smiled kindly and looked at Qiqige: "Emperor Niang, what's the first time?"

Qiqige was shocked.

She turned around, a little guilt flashed in her eyes.Qiqige sneered, slightly obsequious: "Emperor... why are you back?"

Kangxi walked into the sleeping hall.

He looked at Qiqige with a half-smile, but didn't speak.

The palace people in the palace all lowered their heads deeply, not daring to look at the emperor's expression.

The same goes for the queen sitting by the bed.

Kangxi walked all the way to the bed, he first glanced at the queen, and then picked up the brown and black medicine bowl and smelled it.

Where is this medicinal soup?It is clearly a bowl of bean paste soup that has been boiled until fine. The surface looks like clear soup with little water. Stir it a little with a spoon, and you can find the red bean paste and glutinous rice balls that have settled at the bottom—the reason why the co-authors did not let themselves get close just now is to Prevent goofing off!

Kangxi laughed back angrily: "Emperor Niang! Empress Mama!! Empress!!!"

Qiqige, the empress dowager and the empress all shuddered at the same time. They all shrank their necks and lowered their heads pitifully.

Kangxi finally understood why Yinqi was so bearish.

Although Yinqi's nature played a part in it, more problems seemed to appear in the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager.

As for the queen... at most she is an accomplice.

With a stern face, Kangxi took this opportunity to educate the two empress dowagers severely, and severely reprimanded them for the possible bad effects of their bad behavior of pretending to be sick—for example, what if the children learn to be bad one after another?

Who let them get caught.

Qiqige and the Empress Dowager could only bow their heads and admit their mistakes, and at the end Qiqige also said: "Yinqi has worked so hard, but the book "Mencius" has a lot of words... right?"

Kangxi put his hands behind his back: "I have my own plan."

Qiqige was refreshed, her eyes sparkling: "The emperor has thought of this for a long time?"

Kangxi coughed: "I just thought of it just now."

Facing the Empress Dowager's contemptuous gaze, he waved his hand calmly: "Anyway, we've arrived in Nanjing, so let's go to Hangzhou Mansion."

"Are you going to continue south?"

"Rong Ruo sent news that the Hangzhou Weaving Department found a novelty, but unfortunately it was too large to be shipped out due to the heavy snowfall. I originally planned to send them directly to the capital for a second look, but now it is not. Just go and have a look."

Just to give Yin Qi some time.

Qiqige's eyes lit up, and she immediately liked Kangxi a lot.With a smile on her face, she graciously supported Kangxi to sit down: "The emperor's hands are so cold, are they frozen outside? Uzhina! Hurry up and serve a bowl of Laba porridge to warm the emperor."

Uzhina agreed.

Kangxi rolled his eyes helplessly: "I only have something to sit and eat until now, really..."

Qiqige pretended not to hear.

When Uzhina delivered the Laba porridge, she put the porridge into Kangxi's hands with her own hands: "The emperor, come and taste it, the Laba porridge here in Jiangning Mansion is different from what we eat in the capital."

There are two types of Laba porridge in Jiangning Prefecture: sweet and salty.

It contains citronella, water chestnuts, walnut kernels, pine nuts, Gorgon seeds, red dates, chestnuts, fungus, green vegetables, and enoki mushrooms.

Kangxi had heard of it before, and it was the first time he ate it.

He took a sip and lost interest, pretending that it was sent by the empress dowager, he barely finished a bowl, but just as he put down the bowl and chopsticks, another bowl was stuffed into his hands.

Kangxi's face almost collapsed.

Qiqige leaned forward and back together happily: "Aijia knows you don't like salty food, here, this is sweet Laba porridge."

Kangxi's expression softened instantly.

Roasted crispy peanuts, red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, kidney beans, ginkgo and glutinous rice, plus rice and sugar, melt in the mouth, sweet and fragrant, if served with a spoonful of special sweet-scented osmanthus sauce, the taste will be even better It's a must.

This is the taste that Kangxi likes.

His brows and eyes were relaxed, and he drank a bowl happily.

Although the method of pretending to be sick to delay the time was unsuccessful, everyone heaved a sigh of relief when they heard that the group had to go to Hangzhou Mansion before returning to Beijing.

Yinfeng clapped his palms and said with a smile: "This time is almost enough."

Even Yin Qi was slightly relieved.

When he relaxes a little bit, he has the idea of ​​being lazy, but he can't stand the supervision of his four elder brothers, Yinfeng, Yinti, Yinzhi and Yinzhen, as well as Ukumamo, Huangmamo and Huangeriang who are eyeing him. , Yinqi had to immerse himself in the endorsement again, and strive to end the suffering years as soon as possible.

When the heavy snow stopped, the team on the southern tour also began to prepare to set off again.Before departure, Kangxi sent special personnel to various places in the south of the Yangtze River to study the local customs and garden design, intending to renovate Tsinghua Garden as a residence after returning to Beijing.

Qiqige and the queen were also quite moved.

Regardless of the grandeur of the Forbidden City, the feeling of actually living in it is not good.Not to mention the hot summer and the cold winter, the concubines of the Compassionate Palace can still see a little green, and the rest of the concubines only have a small piece of imperial garden to stroll around, and the most important thing is the terrible living environment.

As the empress dowager, Qiqige can monopolize a palace.

For the rest, Concubine Shuhui and others have only been spacious in the past two years. In the past few years, two people lived in one hall, and the concubines of the West Third Institute even had three or four people living in one hall. There is no private secret space either, so what I live in is the collective dormitory of later generations.

This is still under the arrangement of Qiqige.

As for the concubines in the harem, the palace they live in is even tighter, like a concubine with three rooms, at least they must be nobles.

The queen laughed and said, "Lingyi and the others complain that there is no place for them to live in the Compassion Ning Palace. If they can be moved to Tsinghua Garden, they can live together."

Since Da Lingyi went to a women's school, the number of times she came to the Compassion Ning Palace was much less.Firstly, it was because of her studies, and secondly, because of the narrowness of the Compassionate Ning Palace, where Yinqi and Yinzuo were raised, there was really no place to settle her.

Hearing the queen mention it, Qiqige also smiled.Just thinking about how the cute little girl has grown into a young girl in the blink of an eye, she couldn't help but sigh: "In a blink of an eye, Lingyi is also a 12-year-old girl, and Aijia is also old."

"Emperor Niang is still young!"

"Hey, I'm going to be wrinkled." After forty years old, no matter how good the maintenance is, it's useless. Holding her wrinkled cheeks, Qiqige couldn't help but feel sad.She tried to change the subject: "Did the emperor talk about Ling Yi's marriage?"

The queen smiled and said: "The emperor said that he would stay in Lingyi for a few more years."

Qiqige really showed a little smile this time: "That's true, after all, it's not what it used to be."

Nowadays, it is not like Kangxi used princesses to marry in the early years, and most of the clan princesses will delay their engagement and marriage until they are eighteen or even twenty years old.As the emperor's eldest daughter, Lingyi has been Kangxi's treasure since she was a child, and it is not uncommon for Lingyi to stay for a few more years.

Thinking of this, Qiqige became more and more looking forward to the future of Tsinghua University.The queen was also very interested, and she chanted with her fingers: "At that time, the empress mother can also ride more gold for a stroll, and in addition, she can raise two deer and peacocks..."

As the queen said the names of the animals, Qiqige suddenly felt a move in her heart: "That bear... no, can iron-eating beasts be raised?"

"Emperor Niang likes iron-eating beasts?"

"It's black and white, so cute!" Qiqige replied without thinking.

"Yes, is it?" The queen was slightly taken aback.She didn't think the black and white color scheme was so cute, but when the empress dowager said so, she also showed a little expectation: "I haven't seen an iron-eating beast yet, so I will tell the Ministry of Internal Affairs when I turn around, and let them find two to raise them." That's right."

Qiqige's breathing slowed down a bit.

As long as she thinks that she might be able to slap a panda later, she will feel better.

Hangzhou Mansion has a different beauty.

Unlike Qiqige and others who went out to have fun as soon as they arrived in Hangzhou City, Kangxi was so immersed in his official duties that he couldn't get out.

Leaving early and returning late, he even stayed in the government office for a few days.If it weren't for the calm expression of the guards, Qiqige would have thought that something important happened outside to keep Kangxi so busy.

When she accompanied the Empress Dowager and led the empress and the princes to Lingyin Temple and returned, and Kangxi was still not at home, Qiqige finally became suspicious.

She summoned the queen with a serious face.

Just when the queen was puzzled, Qiqige asked cautiously: "The emperor...won't he learn badly, right!?"

Queen: .........? ? ?

Her face was blank: "Learn, learn to be bad?"

Qiqige looked at the queen and shook her head.

She lowered her voice: "Did you change your clothes when you came back? Does the clothes smell of incense?"

The more Qiqige said, the more determined she became.

There is an old saying that domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers. In addition, Kangxi had many Han concubines from the south of the Yangtze River in history. She strongly suspected that Kangxi had a tendency to imitate bad things.

The queen couldn't laugh or cry: "Is it not possible?"

Qiqige glanced at the queen: "Just tell me if there is."

The queen thought for a while, then shook her head.

Qiqige opened her eyes wide: "Really?"

The queen shook her head again.

She confessed honestly: "Actually these days the emperor sleeps in the study when he returns home, and rarely returns to his concubine's body."

Qiqige slapped her palm on the table: "That's right!"

She looked at the astonished queen, and said with certainty: "The first step for a man to become bad is to start with his body smelling bad and being homeless!"