Because Yinreng deliberately tried to please her, the Empress Dowager felt very comfortable communicating with him.
Xiaozhuang listened quietly on the side, with a gentle smile in her eyes.
If she were to say who she felt most sorry for in her life, Qiqige would definitely be one of them.
Back then, she and Dorgon ignored their son's objections and forcefully betrothed their niece to their son, which led to the two becoming resentful couples. Her niece was deposed from the throne two years later and died of depression less than half a year later.
But if she had not agreed to Dorgon's request at that time, Fulin would not have been able to sit firmly on the throne that he took over from Huang Taiji.
After her niece died, in order to appease Korchin, she discussed with her brothers and chose her niece's granddaughter Qiqige as the successor to marry into the capital, in order to show the closeness between Manchus and Mongols and to intimidate the Manchu flag leaders who had their own thoughts at the time.
In order to keep Fulin's throne, she tried her best and worked hard, but in the end she was only met with bad words from her son.
He asked himself with a ferocious face why she forced him to marry someone he didn't like, why she couldn't help him and that bitch, and finally accused her of doing all kinds of dirty things for power. He said he felt disgusted for having such a mother.
The unbearable memories flooded into Xiaozhuang's mind again, and a thick mist gradually formed in her eyes.
Qiqige was only thirteen years old when she entered the palace. From the day she entered the palace, Fulin never treated her well, and he did not stay in Kunning Palace on the wedding night, making her the biggest joke in the Forbidden City.
Later, in order to please that bitch, Fulin wanted to depose Qiqige from her position as queen, and the reason he gave was the ridiculous fact that she was unfilial and unbrotherly.
If that bitch hadn't had some vision and knew that if Fulin succeeded, it would not benefit the Dong'e clan, she would have joined all the civil and military officials in strongly opposing it, and only then would Fulin have given up that idea.
Later, she used some means to take the lives of that bitch and her son, but unexpectedly, she also took Fulin away with them.
So Qiqige ascended the throne of empress dowager in her early twenties.
She was only 30 years old when Huang Taiji passed away. After living in the deep palace for decades, she knew clearly that if a person has no hope, the boring life alone can drive him crazy.
So she asked Kangxi to give Yinqi to Qiqige so that she could raise him, which would give her some hope.
Now that Yinqi has grown up and moved to the prince's residence, Qiqige's life seems to have returned to the past, and the end can be seen at a glance.
She had a premonition that her end was near, and the people she was most worried about, besides Baocheng, were Qiqige.
She was afraid that after she left, Qiqige would not be able to bear such a boring life and would lose the desire to live.
Seeing Yinreng's friendly attitude towards Qiqige today, Xiaozhuang felt much more at ease.
Yinreng chatted with the Empress Dowager and Xiaozhuang for a while, and then Kangxi sent someone over to ask Yinreng to accompany him to the Qianqing Palace.
Yinreng had no choice but to take a sedan chair to the Qianqing Palace.
The content of accompanying the emperor was also very simple. When Kangxi was reviewing memorials, Yinreng was watching beside him. Kangxi would ask Yinreng for his opinion from time to time.
It seemed that he had never received such treatment in his previous life. Yinreng felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong. He finally attributed it to his own nervousness.
Dinner was eaten with Kangxi in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, and it was not much better than Yinreng's own meal. After all, according to the rules, Kangxi would never let Yinreng down even if he himself was wronged.
only……
Yinreng had been racking his brains for the whole morning and was now hungry. However, when dining with Kangxi, every dish had to be tasted by the eunuchs before it could be eaten. Not only that, he could only take a few bites of each dish and it was impossible to eat more.
The Imperial Household Department kept records of his and Kangxi's food intake. When he was only 70% full, the eunuchs serving him stopped serving him food. Yinreng's resentment reached its peak.
"Rules, rules, rules. Everything has to follow the rules. I can't even eat enough. Which idiot made these rules? The emperor needs to restrain himself. Why should I, a prince, suffer? I'm only twelve years old. How can I grow if I don't have enough to eat..."
Yinreng kept cursing in his heart the idiot who had made this rule, and Kangxi's face became darker and darker after hearing this.
The rules in the palace are a bit complicated, but these rules were set at the beginning of the founding of the country following the rules of the late Ming Dynasty. Even if the person who made these rules was not his grandfather, it was his grandfather who nodded in agreement. This kid is cursing like this, isn't he cursing his ancestors as well?
"Yinreng."
Kangxi couldn't bear to listen any longer and interrupted him.
"Hmm? Amma?"
Yinreng's curses stopped abruptly, and then he began to murmur in his heart.
"Calling your name again? What mistake did I make today?"
Kangxi was a little upset. What mistake had he made? Cursing his ancestors was a serious crime!
But he couldn't say out loud the "crime" he heard in his heart, otherwise he would definitely drag the boy out and beat him with a stick.
"Nothing, you must be tired after sitting for a whole morning. Come with me to the Shangshufang to see the third brother and the others."
As Kangxi spoke, he took the wet handkerchief from Liang Jiugong's hand and wiped his mouth, then stood up and walked out the door.
Yinreng pursed his lips, stood up and followed.
"I thought that having a small test every three days and a big test every five days in my senior year was outrageous enough, but here I have to face my own father's strict inspection almost every day. Tsk, I have to say, the old man is much more ruthless than the deans of later generations."
Kangxi was walking in front, and after hearing Yinreng's inner complaints, his brows furrowed tightly.
Senior year of high school?
Big test?
Quiz?
Later generations?
Dean? What the hell is that?
Kangxi silently wrote down these words, intending to try them again when he had the chance.
As for the three words "much more severe", he automatically ignored them.
After the baptism yesterday and this morning, Kangxi's ability to endure has increased a lot.
If he had heard Yinreng's inner thoughts yesterday, Yinreng would never have walked out of the Palace of Heavenly Purity in one piece.
The emperor's procession was already waiting at the door. There were dozens of people standing straight in the scorching sun.
Prince Yinreng's ceremonial procession was on the other side.
In comparison, the prince's ceremonial procession seems a little less impressive.
Yinreng pinched his chin.
"He makes such a big fuss wherever he goes, as if he's afraid others won't know he's here. Besides the eunuchs carrying the sedan chair, what role do the others play? Are they just there to create atmosphere? ..."
After Kangxi got into the sedan chair, Yinreng stood there and watched the procession go away, then waited for his own sedan chair to come up and sat on it.
The sedan chair swayed slowly, and Kangxi sat on it. As the distance between him and Yinreng gradually widened, his thoughts gradually faded away.
Kangxi pondered.
——It seems that I can’t hear Baocheng’s inner voice because the distance is too far.
After two days of testing, apart from verifying that Yinreng recognized his political achievements and military exploits, he also listed everything else, such as food, clothing, the education of the princes, memorials from officials from all over the country, and the complicated and heavy rules of the palace.
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