flstandardbreds Chapter 150 Guar Jia Wen Yuan (17)
Chapter 150 Guar Jia Wen Yuan (17)
Although the Four Heavenly Kings are now old, Kangxi no longer sleeps with them, but before Shu Fei entered the palace, Kangxi would often come to their palace to sit and provide some emotional value.
But once Shu Fei entered the palace, the whole situation in the harem changed. Kangxi no longer took the older concubines, including the Four Heavenly Kings, to see him; although the younger concubines were originally of lower ranks, they were in their prime, and although Kangxi did not give them ranks, he would not miss out on other favors and rewards. But now Kangxi only favored Shu Fei.
Kangxi even built a tung blossom terrace for her and planted sycamore trees for her. You know, even when the Four Heavenly Kings were young and the most favored, they did not have such treatment.
During this period of time, Shufei and Rouze made Wen Yuan, who seemed to be rather domineering, appear to be virtuous.
After all, she suffered from severe morning sickness, so it was only right that the prince take better care of her.
If there was a hot search list for the Forbidden City, Shu Fei and Rou Ze would be the undisputed top stars in Beijing who have dominated the list for two consecutive years.
Today, Kangxi gave Shu Fei some unique material, and tomorrow, the Fourth Prince made a hairpin for the Fourth Lady...
The father and son were like fighting in a ring, and they kept doing incredible things to increase the popularity in order to be the number one trending search. It was in such a situation that the whole nation seemed to only pay attention to the two hot couples of Kangxi and Shufei and Pangju and Rouze that Wen Yuan gave birth to her second son, the fourth prince of Yuqing Palace.
Well, the reason why I only mention his ranking is because he doesn’t have a name yet.
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the names of the royal grandchildren had to be given by him personally. But recently, Concubine Shu had just given birth to the seventeenth prince, and Kangxi's entire attention was on this fruit of his love. Apart from important political affairs, he could no longer pay any attention to other things.
To be honest, Kangxi's current attitude of looking down on other people and discarding them like broken shoes, but only holding the newborn Yinli in his mouth for fear that he would melt, and holding him in his hands for fear that he would get cold, is actually quite hurtful.
Before, Yinreng didn’t feel anything about being the favored one. He even felt a little suffocated by his father’s special care and love for him, which included caring about every detail, even which concubine he slept with that day.
But now, Kangxi suddenly let go. They lived together in the palace, but like other people, they could only talk a few words to each other during court sessions every day. Yinreng felt a little uncomfortable.
He could only try to comfort himself that the Emperor was not always watching his every word and action, and that they had even had some suspicion of each other before, which was always a good thing.
Rather than letting the Emperor be obsessed with correcting his mistakes every day and even weakening the power under his command, it would be better for the Emperor to focus all his energy on Little Seventeen.
This younger brother is the same age as his youngest son. He is jealous of such a little kid and is going further and further back.
Besides, if you lose something, you gain something. Yinreng and Yinzhi started competing and fighting since they were young. In the beginning, what they wanted most was the attention of Kangxi.
As a result, the combined age of the two people, who are older than Kangxi, is now no match for a baby who has not yet been weaned.
Suddenly, I felt it was quite boring.
The relationship between Yinzhen and Yinreng inexplicably improved.
Of course, only the two people's confidants knew about this change for the time being. The factional struggle between the two of them has been going on for at least 20 years. Each of them is surrounded by a group of followers and officials. It is unrealistic to expect such a large number of people to shake hands and make peace overnight, or even get along with each other.
It was also because the forces behind the two were still fighting each other that Kangxi, who was focusing most of his energy on his beloved son Yinli, did not notice anything unusual. This can also be regarded as a blessing in disguise.
Shu Guifei rushed to give birth to a child, and her child was favored by Emperor Kangxi just like her. By creating new topics, she successfully surpassed the fourth concubine Rouze and firmly occupied the top of the hot search list from the 39th year of Emperor Kangxi to the 46th year of Emperor Kangxi.
Just when everyone thought that Concubine Shu would continue to suppress the others, Rou Ze counterattacked.
At the end of the 46th year of the Kangxi reign, Rouze became pregnant.
Ever since Rouze became pregnant, news in the Fourth Prince's mansion has become lively again.
It is said that the Fourth Lady made Princess Gan and Princess Miao kneel outside the courtyard gate as punishment. After kneeling for two hours, the two princesses both miscarried.
It was said that Concubine Yixiu's eldest son had a high fever at night, but all the doctors were called away by the main court. Concubine Yixiu knelt and cried all night in the rain, holding the cold eldest son.
It is said that the Fourth Prince felt that Concubine Yixiu and the Fourth Prince were good sisters, and that Concubine Yixiu was knowledgeable in pharmacology. So he had the audacity to ask Concubine Yixiu, who had just lost her son, to protect the pregnancy of Concubine Yixiu before Honghui's seventh day of death.
It is said that……
Rouze died.
She desperately gave birth to a monster with black bruises all over its body, and then died of exhaustion.
Wen Yuan only regards what happens in Pangju's house as fun. No matter whose brains are beaten out in his house, Wen Yuan will not have the slightest sympathy or mercy.
But recently, Yinreng's face looked worse and worse every time he came back. Although he tried his best to hide it, as they have been married for many years, how could Wen Yuan not see through his emotions?
Even if Yinreng didn't say it, Wen Yuan also had a way to find out why he was worried.
According to her father's letter, Kangxi's attitude towards Yinreng has been getting worse day by day. Recently, he even loudly reprimanded the prince in front of all the civil and military officials in the court, from the extravagance of Yuqing Palace to the prince's incompetence. Anyway, when Kangxi doesn't like someone, he can find ten thousand reasons to be mean and picky about them.
God has mercy on me. Ever since Yinreng personally reported the corruption and bribery of Soetu and his subordinates, the gray income of the Eastern Palace has shrunk greatly. Now Yuqing Palace can barely hold on, thanks to its small size and small number of people.
How many years have the furnishings in Yuqing Palace not been changed? Whenever Kangxi took a look around Yuqing Palace, he would never say such nonsense as "Yuqing Palace is extravagant".
Wen Yuan opened the official history again and found that things were indeed not good recently.
The 47th year of Kangxi's reign was the time in history when Kangxi deposed the crown prince.
Wen Yuan looked at her children who had to live with their parents in the small Yuqing Palace, and felt that it was time to move them to a new residence.