However, thanks to her previous connections, she was granted the title of Imperial Concubine, making her one of the women with relatively high rank in the palace.
The more important reason for this was that she knew what she should and shouldn't do. When she should do something, she shouldn't try to appear before the emperor to show her presence. By simply following the emperor's orders, she could live a good life in the palace...
Because of her good conduct and because she confronted the Emperor early on, she was able to conceive a prince, who would be her support for the rest of her life. Now, all she can think about is raising the tenth prince well.
She also had a prince by her side, so the little Niohuru was content. The idea of restoring her glory, as her elders had said, was just wishful thinking!
Given the Emperor's current abilities and desire for control, how could he possibly allow his concubines to interfere in state affairs?
Moreover, the Emperor had finally managed to wear down the influence of those few ministers before him, so how could he possibly build up a new group of people? The current Emperor is no longer the teenager who couldn't control the government. Now he is working hard to make the Qing Dynasty better.
Anyone who hinders the development of the Qing Dynasty will become the Emperor's enemy. She understood this clearly and therefore did not want to get involved in this mess.
At this moment, he cannot tolerate any imperfections!
She is now able to gain the Emperor's favor and successfully give birth to and raise the prince, all because she is sensible and doesn't indulge in daydreams!
Take that young Lady Tongjia, for example. The two of them entered the palace together and once had some affection for each other.
But she was so clueless. She used all her tricks to win the emperor's favor, and one day she would give one concubine a hard time, and the next day she would corner another in the imperial garden and make that person kneel on the road.
She had only just entered the palace, barely established herself, when she did such a thing, making a huge spectacle of herself. Then, she was tricked by some concubine into drinking a sterilizing potion. If she had stopped there after this, the Emperor would surely have spared her, and her treatment in the palace would have improved. But instead, after this incident, her personality became increasingly extreme, and she became terrifyingly gloomy!
She was rather foolish, and in the end, she couldn't find the culprit. To appease her, the emperor could only follow the clues and punish one of the concubines to let it go—because he had been too much trouble before, which made the emperor impatient with him, but she was unwilling to let it go.
But whether she was actually that concubine or not, nobody cared!
Ever since she drank the sterilization medicine, she was devastated and became somewhat insane. It wasn't until last year when she offended the emperor and almost injured a prince that the emperor threw her into the cold palace. No one knows what kind of life she's living now!
Lady Niohuru couldn't persuade her. She had already given birth to a prince, and no matter how she tried to persuade her, she was seen as someone who was talking without understanding the situation and wouldn't appreciate her at all.
On the contrary, it might easily provoke her. What if she harms her little ten?
The example of Lady Tongjia served as a constant warning to her not to do anything excessive. The tricks she had learned outside the palace were not even a tenth as good as the Emperor's. Where did she get the audacity to try to outsmart the Emperor?
Living a peaceful and stable life like this is good enough. It is quite obvious that the Emperor would not allow himself to raise the Tenth Prince to be outstanding.
She didn't want her son to compete for that position; she knew better than anyone how dangerous the path was…
So it's good that things are peaceful and stable like this. When she first entered the palace, she had some girlish feelings for Emperor Kangxi, but in just two or three years, he had become indifferent to these things. Of course, she still liked him, but she wouldn't give him her whole heart. One was the emperor and the other was the subject, and they weren't a proper husband and wife.
"If you want to raise a kitten, your mother won't let you!" Little Niohuru said, snapping back to reality.
Xiao Shi's eyes were bright. He had taken to heart everything that Sister Jingrou had said. He was determined to take care of the kitten himself and not let his mother worry about it!
So at this moment, he confidently said, "Mother, don't worry, I definitely won't let you come."
"Then tell me what you need to prepare if you want to take care of a kitten. Let your mother test you and see if you can take care of it," Little Niohuru continued.
Consort Yi chuckled and shook her head.
She's still a young girl after all; once she gets playful, she even tries to tease her own son.
"It needs to be fed, kept warm... and dressed in thick clothes! Mother, the kitten is so pitiful, it doesn't have any clothes. Only Mao Mao has clothes. After we bring it home, son, can you have someone make clothes for it too?"
Little Niohuru laughed, “But kittens already have thick fur. If they wear another layer of clothes, it will be too hot. You can make clothes for it, but you also have to see if the kitten wants to wear them, right?” Generally, small animals like this don’t like to wear clothes, as they might feel restricted. Little Niohuru had never raised cats or dogs, but her maternal grandmother did have a Pekingese dog that stayed in their house for many years before finally dying of old age.
She cried very sadly when she died, which must have happened when she was just over ten years old.
Now that her own child wants to have a pet, she looks at Xiao Shi as if she's seeing her younger self.
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