"Your Majesty, it is permissible to eat, but one should not eat too much, as excessive consumption can indeed harm one's health."

That's good now.

From that day on, Kangxi had an additional task: to supervise Harigana.

He can't let you eat this, he can't look at that too much! He even controls your sleep!

The reason was that he asked the imperial physician for a detailed guide on what to pay attention to after becoming pregnant, saying that people who sleep too much and don't like to exercise will have a difficult time giving birth!

Therefore, Harigana also has a daily routine: two trips to the Qianqing Palace every day.

"Jiaojiao, you can't sleep anymore!"

Seeing that it was almost time, Kangxi went to wake up the person who was taking a nap. No matter how much she pleaded and rolled around, the dog of a man would never give in even a little bit.

"Xuan Ye, right away, let me lie down a little longer, it'll be over soon!"

Harigana closed her eyes and acted coquettishly; she was really sleepy!

"Jiaojiao! Your dowry has already been sent to the palace. Don't you want to see it?"

Chasu had been waiting in the suburbs of Beijing. She hadn't followed the main group, so she arrived in the capital quite early.

Unexpectedly, half a month has passed, and she is still at the estate on the outskirts of the capital. Although she is somewhat anxious, the emperor has issued an edict ordering her to wait here, so she can only obediently wait here for the imperial decree to enter the palace.

On this day, having finally obtained permission, Chasu entered the capital in a grand procession with Harigana's dowry, arriving just in time for noon. The scene was truly magnificent.

Many people stopped to watch, their doubts growing as they looked at the Imperial Guards and the Mongol knights.

"What's going on?"

The common people were filled with doubts, but when they saw these things being transported into the palace, the 'insiders' finally came out and told them what had happened.

"This is the dowry of that empress in the palace!"

As soon as he said that, a lot of people gathered around.

"Which lady is this? Such a large dowry! Even the Empress wouldn't have this much stuff!"

The 'insider' glanced around mysteriously once more, then whispered, "It's that Consort Kang! She's the Emperor's darling! My cousin's mother-in-law's granddaughter works in the palace. This is absolutely true!"

The crowd began to discuss the matter in small groups, but by the time they wanted to ask again, the 'insider' was already gone!

"Hmm? Chasu has entered the palace?"

The drowsiness of Harigana is gone, and now all that remains is a wealth of surprises.

"Okay! Get up slowly, we'll go check on you after you wake up!"

The reason Kangxi kept Chasu away for half a month was twofold. First, he instructed Li Dequan to set up a separate horse farm for Harigana in the suburbs of Beijing. Although her horses were warhorses, Kangxi would not arbitrarily requisition them without her permission. Therefore, they needed to carefully prepare a place capable of raising a hundred horses, and possibly many foals in the future.

Secondly, Emperor Kangxi was busy preparing betrothal gifts for Harigana during this period. Although she was not yet his principal wife, he did not want his beloved to suffer any injustice. Therefore, the matter of Chasu entering the palace had been delayed for so long.

Fortunately, Li Dequan had specifically instructed that the storeroom in Qingxi Palace must be large, and that the workers should prepare it according to the emperor's private treasury; otherwise, there really wouldn't have been enough space for such a long row of gold and silver treasures.

Everyone in Qingxi Palace was very busy, and the two masters were very happy. No, it should be said that the lady of the house was happy, and the master of the house was even happier because of it.

While this side was happy, everyone else in the palace was not.

The Emperor has been back for more than half a month, and he has not only not stepped into the inner palace, but he also spends every day either in the Qingqing Palace or the Qingxi Palace.

Half a month has passed since the incident of Tongjia's nanny being beaten to death, and some bolder people have begun to have their own ideas.

Just as they were about to do something, an imperial edict from Emperor Kangxi made them instantly deflated!

"No! Why can't the Emperor let us go to the Imperial Garden? She's pregnant? What does her pregnancy have to do with us? Haven't we all had children before?"

Consort Yi was short-tempered. Because she had not been able to see Emperor Kangxi for some time, she had not had the opportunity to have another child to rely on. Now, upon hearing this imperial edict, she was so angry that she cursed loudly in Yikun Palace.

"Your Highness, please keep your voice down! That's the Imperial Concubine!"

Consort Yi's personal maid and nanny hurriedly tried to dissuade her, fearing that she might say something else.

Previously, the Emperor had a certain fondness for Consort Yi, so sometimes when she spoke without thinking, he would describe her quirky nature as straightforwardness.

But things are different now. The Emperor's heart belongs to that Consort. If she finds out that she's been whispering in his ear, the Consort's hard-earned position might be lost!

Consort Yi was furious and wouldn't listen to her wet nurse and maids. She not only smashed everything in her room to pieces, but also wanted to go to Qingxi Palace to find Harigana!

In the end, it was the wet nurse who persuaded them to use the Fifth Prince!

"Granny, how could His Majesty treat me like this!"

Consort Yi looked at her wet nurse with hazy eyes. Although she didn't want to admit it, she liked Emperor Kangxi more. He was so handsome and the ruler of the world; how could she not be moved?

Although she had previously said that she wouldn't care about love and romance, it was because the Emperor would come to see her from time to time.

Since the Emperor left, apart from the time she attended the palace banquet at the palace gate, and excluding the incident where she was made difficult by the Empress Dowager when she had to serve tea at Harigana, she has never seen the Emperor again!

It's fair to say that unless it's absolutely necessary for her to appear, she never gets to see the Emperor even once!

"Your Majesty!"

What could the wet nurse say? She knew what Consort Yi was thinking before, but who would have thought such an unexpected incident would occur in the palace!

Emperor Kangxi quickly learned that a new batch of porcelain had been placed in Yikun Palace. Not only Yikun Palace, but all the other palaces, except for those belonging to the Tongjia clan, had their porcelain replaced to varying degrees!

Recalling the details of the warehouse inventory list when he had Li Dequan prepare the betrothal gifts for Harigana, Kangxi immediately ordered an imperial edict to be written and sent to the Empress Dowager, since the Empress Dowager was now in charge of the inner palace.

"Your Majesty, is there anything else you wish to instruct this servant?"

Upon seeing Kangxi's imperial edict, not only Li Dequan, but even the Empress Dowager's lips twitched slightly.

"No, Zhang Jin, see Eunuch Li out!"

After Li Dequan left, the Empress Dowager reopened the imperial edict and looked at it again. Then, she burst out laughing inappropriately.

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has found out, and she's probably going to be angry again!"

The head palace maid who served the Empress Dowager had been with him for decades, so he was quite relaxed when it was just the two of them!

"It's alright. When people get old, they have to accept it. In the end, it will be the young people's world. To put it bluntly, if I didn't see things clearly, do you think such an imperial edict would have reached my hands? I don't even know how old I will live, so why should I care about the affairs of the young people?"

The Empress Dowager waved her hand dismissively, then instructed Zhang Jin, who had just entered, to summon the people from the Imperial Household Department!