Tong Jia didn't take it seriously.
"I have been recuperating these days. Yinzhen is a filial child and comes to visit me every three to five days. Since my cousin has punished that bitch, it means he has found out her attitude towards Yinzhen. Ahem…"
Before Concubine Tong could finish her words, she couldn't help but started coughing violently.
Nanny Jinjia quickly handed her a cup of tea.
Concubine Tong took it and drank two sips, and the itchiness in her throat finally dissipated a lot.
She continued,
"I've been claiming to be ill for more than a day or two. I can't even take care of myself, so how can I have the energy to care about others..."
Tong Jia turned her gaze to the window. Her feelings towards Yinzhen were actually very complicated.
In a blink of an eye, she had been in the palace for ten years.
When she first entered the palace, she was a young girl in love and thought that her cousin treated her differently from others. She looked forward to becoming his wife, bearing children for him, and helping him solve his problems.
But time passed little by little, and children were born one after another in the harem, but there was no movement in her belly.
She thought there was something wrong with her body, but she asked several doctors to take her pulse. They all said that she was in good health, but they could not explain why she could not get pregnant.
Her family urged her to adopt a child, and so Yinzhen was born.
Although she was reluctant at first, when she saw how well-behaved and cute Yinzhen was, she slowly began to accept Yinzhen and, like most concubines with children in the palace, took care of Yinzhen's food, clothing and other expenses.
Until Uya was favored and gave birth to the sixth prince, her cousin named him Zuo. Half a year later, the status of that bitch was promoted, and along with it, the news of her pregnancy was spread.
How ridiculous.
My cousin knew very well that the bitch came from Chengqian Palace. Even if she adopted Yinzhen, wasn't she also named Depin in exchange?
Was he really compensating Uya out of guilt, or had his heart already been won over by that bitch?
Otherwise, why would that bitch give birth to one baby after another?
Doesn’t my cousin know that this action is tearing off the face of her, the imperial concubine, and throwing her into the dust to make people laugh?
How could Uya, a lowly maid, give birth to one child after another? Why did she, as the imperial concubine, have to adopt the son of that lowly woman?
Later, she begged her family to find a folk remedy. Although the process was not smooth, fortunately she finally became pregnant.
The moment she was confirmed to be pregnant, she was ecstatic.
So that night, she told this "good news" to her cousin, the man she had always admired and entrusted her life to.
However, it was different from her expectations.
When her cousin learned that she was pregnant, he was not as happy as she had imagined, but his face turned pale.
It was on that day that she saw her cousin's true face.
Because she was too worried during her pregnancy, her child was born weak and sickly and died before he was one month old.
Her joy was in vain in the end.
His body collapsed little by little.
She truly loved Yinzhen, and she also understood that her hatred for Uya should not be directed at Yinzhen.
But she just couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart, and sometimes she would have such vicious thoughts in her heart -
Why...why was it not Yinzhen who died, but her Eighth Princess?!
My cousin feels guilty, so he has been more tolerant in the past few years, but what's the point?!
Her daughter will never come back!
Compared with Tonggiya's indifferent attitude, Uya and Nara were not in a very good mood.
For Concubine Hui Nala, she had her own biological son, and the adopted son was not as important as her own biological son, so she raised Yinyou and Yinsi in the past few years just to save face.
As long as she didn't tell the emperor about it, she wouldn't suffer any loss. Instead, because of the grace of raising her, she could force Yinyou and Yinsi to stand behind Yinzhi.
Besides, they are still young. No matter how hard she tries to please them, they may not remember much when they grow up. It is better to wait until they are older before bothering them. As long as the emperor recognizes her contribution, the two little guys will have to recognize her even if they don't want to.
Who would have thought that the eldest son had been fighting outside these days, and she, his own mother, was worried every day. She was not as attentive to Yinyou and Yinsi as before, and she did not do her superficial work well enough, so someone took advantage of the opportunity and reported it to the emperor.
Concubine Hui was furious, but she didn't dare show it. What was even more infuriating was that in order to show that she knew she was wrong, she pretended to be in a hurry to buy clothes, shoes and socks for Yinyou and Yinsi.
Uya was also angry, but her performance was much more clever than Huifei's.
He asked someone to bring out a pile of clothes, shoes, socks, and even a melon-shaped hat.
Uya looked at the pile of clothes with a heavy gaze. This was the clothes she had prepared for the deceased Yinzuo.
Her son Yinzuo had never enjoyed the good things in this world and passed away at the age of seven. It was because she, as his mother, was incompetent and failed to protect him.
"Give that suit, that suit, and that deerskin hat to the Fourth Prince."
Uya was injured for a while, then she picked out two sets of winter clothes and a melon-shaped hat made of deerskin from the neatly arranged clothes.
Since the Sixth Prince passed away, Uya had personally sewn many clothes for him, including spring and autumn clothes, cotton-padded jackets and trousers for eight-year-olds, nine-year-olds, and ten-year-olds.
In addition to raising her daughter and serving Kangxi, she put all her energy into commemorating the deceased Sixth Prince, so she had no extra time to care about the life or death of the Fourth Prince.
Even this child was born after she carried him for ten months.
So after the horse riding and archery class ended that afternoon, Yinzhen received the winter clothes sent from Yonghe Palace.
The eunuch who served Yinzhen specifically told him that it was made by Concubine De herself and had never had the chance to be delivered to him before.
Yinzhen was extremely happy. Even though the two sets of clothes didn't fit him well, he still tried them on and treasured them for a long time before asking someone to put them away.
Yinzhen naturally knew that Concubine De had been reprimanded by Emperor Kangxi. At first, he felt a little uneasy, fearing that Concubine De would blame him and alienate him.
But after receiving these two sets of winter clothes today, the uneasiness in his heart disappeared without a trace.
It is only the end of August now, and there is still more than a month before winter actually arrives. Since this winter clothes was made by De'er's mother herself, it means that she has always been thinking about him, otherwise she would not have made clothes for him in advance.
She made it herself.
Yinzhen's joy lasted for a long time, and he even studied harder than usual in the Shangshufang.
When Kangxi heard about this, he couldn't help but think more about it.
Tong Jia's health had been poor in recent years. He knew the reason and also knew that he was one of the culprits behind Tong Jia's poor health.
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