Chapter 151 Chapter 151 "After all, back then...
Li Shuyao gave the decision to the prince, and the prince did not disappoint her.
I heard that a whole set of tea sets was broken in Yuqing Palace that day.
That Haha bead never entered the palace again.
As a result, Hahazhuzi's father was also dismissed from his official position.
The prince went to the prince's residence in person and talked with the eldest prince in the room for an hour. When he came out, the atmosphere between the two brothers had become much more relaxed.
——This part was recorded by Yinzhen, Yinqi and others while they were lying in a corner of their small courtyard, using weeds as cover, and their dog secretly eavesdropped.
A few days later, the Crown Prince went to the Yanx Palace and talked to Concubine Hui about something.
Concubine Hui quickly agreed with Concubine Tong's opinion and chose a princess from the Irgen Juelu family as her daughter-in-law.
When everything was settled, Li Shuyao instantly returned to her former happy self.
Every day, he would either go to the Yiku Palace to see Qingyao, or go to the Yanx Palace to play with Yinsi. Occasionally, he would pay attention to the preparations for the eldest prince's wedding. He wrote down all the details in his little notebook, intending to copy the homework directly when Yinzhen got married in the future.
A year passed quickly, and during this period, good news gradually came out about Concubine Wen, a concubine, and a maid.
Qingyao gave birth to a little prince smoothly. The emperor was overjoyed and immediately named him Yinzhen.
Another four months passed, and finally the eldest prince's wedding day arrived.
Red silk was hung everywhere in the Yanx Palace, and all the palace ladies were rewarded with a year's allowance of silver.
The little ones were so happy that they ran around happily at the wedding scene and disappeared without a trace in a short while.
When they were sent back, Li Shuyao heard that these little guys had crawled under the bed in the bridal chamber and wanted to hear some words that only adults could hear.
Unexpectedly, when they were hiding under the bed, they became more and more excited as they talked, and finally almost started a fight. They were heard by the people guarding outside the bridal chamber. While the ceremony outside was not over yet and the eldest wife had not entered the bridal chamber yet, they hurriedly asked the imperial concubine for permission.
The imperial concubine came over personally to arrest them. She took a piece of red silk and tied the hands of the little guys together, then sent them to Li Shuyao like puppies.
A month after the eldest prince’s wedding, the mansion outside the palace was officially completed.
The emperor bestowed the title of Beile on the eldest prince and allowed him to move out of the palace with his wife.
Then Concubine Hui became "sick", and was listless all day long, often staring blankly at the air.
Li Shuyao observed for a few days and came to the conclusion that Concubine Hui was suffering from lovesickness!
Otherwise, how could everything be cured just by the eldest lady coming to the palace to pay her respects?
Li Shuyao had been worried before, because Irgen Jueluo was forced upon Yinzhen. What if Concubine Hui was narrow-minded and didn't like this daughter-in-law?
What she didn't expect was that after only two months of marriage, Hui Fei was coaxed into becoming a completely different person by Irgen Jueluo.
What I used to talk about all the time was how great my Yinzhi was and how great my Yinzhi was.
Now, it is rare to hear the word "Yinzhen" from her mouth for ten days or half a month. When she speaks, she is either praising her daughter-in-law or praising her son-in-law.
I still remember that morning, when I went to pay my respects to the Imperial Noble Consort, Li Shuyao simply said good morning, and Consort Hui spontaneously came over with a smile and asked, "How did you know this headpiece was given to me by my daughter-in-law?"
"Oh, that child is so thoughtful. Look, the bottom of my flower pot is made of Shu brocade."
"She also said that she would come to the palace today to give me the soup she cooked herself. Oh, I won't tell you anymore. I have to pay my respects to the Imperial Concubine quickly and go back to the Yanxi Palace to wait. Otherwise, the soup will get cold and it won't taste good."
Li Shuyao: "..."
When she returned to Changchun Palace, she began to force her own son to marry her.
Yinzhen was so frightened that he didn't dare to pay his respects to her for seven days.
Wait until Concubine Hui's praise for her daughter-in-law subsided a little.
Suddenly, a big change happened in the palace.
——Pin Ping was demoted to a concubine!
Li Shuyao hurried to Chengqian Palace and started eating melon.
Only then did they learn that the tranquilizing soup that the eldest prince had drunk before had been tampered with was made by Pingpin.
Although she had not yet entered the palace at that time, the elders in her family had already asked her opinion.
She was very ambitious. After the conversation, she began to prepare for entering the palace. Knowing that her honor and disgrace were tied to the prince, she had planned to take action against the eldest prince very early on.
It really fits what Concubine Wen said about her - her ideas are very unique.
The emperor, considering that she and Empress Yuan, Hesheli, were from the same family, and he did not want the scandal to spread, only demoted her to a concubine, and then took another woman from the Hesheli clan into the palace, and initially made her a noble lady.
Afterwards, Concubine Wen, Concubine Wang, and Concubine Lan gave birth one after another.
Concubine Wen gave birth to a little prince, who was ranked tenth and was the Tenth Prince.
After Wang Shufei and Lan Changzai gave birth to two little princesses respectively, they were each promoted to noble ladies.
As the Double Ninth Festival approached, the emperor once again conferred titles on his harem.
Imperial Noble Consort Tong became the empress as she wished, and Li Shuyao and Qingyao were conferred the title of Imperial Consorts.
Qingyao's title was still "Yi", but Li Shuyao's "Ling" was changed to "Zhao".
The positions of Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong remain unchanged. This time, Concubine Hui becomes the leader of the four concubines, and the other two concubines are Concubine Wen and Concubine An.
Below them were six concubines, namely, Concubine Duan, Concubine Jing, Concubine Xi, Concubine Liang, Concubine Cheng, and Hesheli, who had just entered the palace and was named Concubine Shun.
From then on, except for one Imperial Noble Consort, the empress, four concubines and six imperial concubines were all full.
Li Shuyao is already very content.
A rough calculation showed that this was only the eighth year since she came into the book, and she had climbed from a little maid in the Qianqing Palace who could be slapped by anyone to the position of a royal concubine.
But she is so awesome.
During that time, she wanted to walk sideways wherever she went.
Qingyao couldn't stand it anymore, so she pulled her to a deserted place and gave her a scolding.
The arrogance subsided a little.
In the second year of Concubine Tong's reign as empress, perhaps moved by her perseverance in seeking a daughter, she actually became pregnant. Then in the third year, she successfully gave birth to a lovely and exquisite little princess.
When Li Shuyao heard the words "seek a daughter" from Qingyao, she was a little confused. "What do you mean by 'seek a daughter'? Shouldn't it be 'seek a son'?"
Qingyao explained to her, "Because Sister Tong thinks she already has a son."
Li Shuyao: “?”
ah?
You already have a son, are you referring to Yinzhen?
She pointed in disbelief at her own son who was arm wrestling with Yinzhi not far away.
Qingyao nodded, but in fact she had something else to say.
The Queen told her secretly after she gave birth. She said that she had always regarded Shu Yao as her own daughter, so she was not very eager to have a daughter.
When I was pregnant, I thought it would be good for both boys and girls.
But after the baby was born, she found out that it was really a little princess. She asked Qingyao if God didn't want to see her raise Li Shuyao as a daughter?
Qingyao felt that the queen was probably confused because of the pain.
Sure enough, the day after giving birth to the little princess, the queen never said anything similar to her again.
*
Li Shuyao originally thought that imperial concubine was the highest position she could reach.
Because generally speaking, no emperor would appoint an imperial concubine while the empress is still in power.
Unless the empress is immoral and displeased by the emperor, or she is terminally ill and no medicine can cure her, and the emperor wants to appoint another concubine as the successor, she will first be named Imperial Noble Consort in charge of the six palaces as a transition.
After she entered the novel, apart from Qingyao, Queen Tong was the one who treated her best.
Therefore, if the price of being granted the title of Imperial Noble Consort was the death of Queen Tong, she would rather stay in the position of Noble Consort for the rest of her life, be it the position of Consort, Imperial Concubine, or even a Chang'e.
Anyway, Queen Tong is here, and she will not be treated unfairly in any way.
But I didn't expect——
In the 29th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, the emperor personally led his first expedition to Dzungar. No one knew what happened during the journey. When he returned to the capital a few months later, the first decree he issued was to confer the title of Imperial Noble Consort on her.
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Shuyao was completely stunned at that time.
She thought something had happened to Queen Tong in Chengqian Palace, and without even having time to react, she rushed directly to Chengqian Palace. When she saw Queen Tong sitting in the room smiling at her gently and kindly, she wiped her eyes several times in disbelief, thinking she was hallucinating.
Queen Tong seemed to have anticipated her arrival. She looked at the account book in her hand and waved at her, "Come and sit down."
Come over and sit down.
Li Shuyao didn't want to sit down, she just wanted to kneel down in front of her and beg her to explain to her what the imperial edict that conferred the title of Imperial Noble Consort was all about.
"Why don't you come over?" Seeing her leaning against the door frame with her hands, without moving, Empress Tong raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Do you still want me to come over and help you?"
"No, that's not necessary." Li Shuyao said with difficulty, and walked tremblingly to the chair in front of her and sat down.
His back was very straight, his knees were together, his hands were placed on his knees, and his watery almond-shaped eyes looked at the queen without blinking, as if he was afraid that she would fly away in the next second.
Empress Tong was almost amused by her expression. She put down the account book and asked her, "Why, don't you like the position of Imperial Noble Consort?"
Li Shuyao nodded blankly.
Queen Tong pondered: "So you like the position of queen?"
Li Shuyao quickly and frantically shook her head.
Empress Tong: "Alright, alright, stop shaking," she said, "I was the one who persuaded the Emperor to make you Imperial Noble Consort."
Li Shuyao's eyes suddenly widened. "Why?"
Empress Tong sighed softly, "Do you know what happened when the Emperor personally led the army this time?"
Li Shuyao was not sure about this. She only remembered that in history, Kangxi led the army to war three times. During one of the campaigns, he contracted malaria and was cured by something called quinine.
So when she learned that the emperor was going to war, she stuffed the quinine that she had ordered people to get in advance into the box and gave Liang Jiugong instructions for a long time.
Could it be... this time?
Oh, the emperor is so unlucky. He got attacked the first time he led an army in person?
The thought flashed through her mind at an inopportune time.
He quickly stopped himself and cautiously asked the queen, "What happened?"
Empress Tong said, "Liang Jiugong, who served the emperor, unfortunately contracted malaria. The accompanying imperial physicians were helpless, but Liang Jiugong finally regained consciousness and said that you had given him a Western medical book and several bottles of Western medicine."
"Several imperial doctors studied the case for two days before finally saving Liang Jiugong."
"Liang Jiugong is an old man who serves the Emperor. He has been with the Emperor since he was a child, and the Emperor and him have an extraordinary friendship. Furthermore, after he fell ill, the Emperor also showed some symptoms of malaria. Fortunately, those bottles of medicine were discovered in time, so the Emperor didn't suffer much and recovered in just a few days."
"After research by the imperial physician, it was discovered that among those bottles of medicine, there was one called Cinchona Cream, which was a miracle cure for malaria."
"If you hadn't accidentally gotten in, I'm afraid this imperial expedition wouldn't have gone so smoothly. Many soldiers might have died, and the Dzungars wouldn't have suffered such a heavy loss."
"After the Emperor returned, he sent people to investigate. It was your unremitting research on Western medicine prescriptions over the years that paid off..."
Li Shuyao felt a little guilty. She stuffed quinine because she knew that there had been such an incident in history.
As for researching Western medicine prescriptions...
Well, she is an English major after all. Although Old English looks a bit awkward, there are many common things in it, so it doesn't seem to be difficult for her.
She just wanted to find an excuse to read Western novels, oh no, Western vernacular novels.
But there were so many people in the palace that it was difficult for her to explain that she could understand it, so she could only start with prescriptions. Under the pretext of translation, she read a lot of books sent from the West, such as astronomy, geography, mythology and love stories.
…Ahem, as for why it’s a prescription…
That's because she was afraid of death, so she wanted to work hard to improve the medical level of the Qing Dynasty at that time!
Li Shuyao felt a little uneasy and a little angry at the moment.
The straight back slowly bent down.
Empress Tong, however, thought she was hesitating, and immediately sat down next to Li Shuyao, patted the back of her hand, and said in a tone that brooked no argument: "I won't let you refuse. In this palace, I won't be happy if anyone else takes the position of Imperial Noble Consort except you. Only you, understand?"
After all, Li Shuyao had been raised by her as her own daughter for several years.
If she is not worthy of him, who else can be worthy of him?
Queen Tong thought with great confidence.
Li Shuyao was quickly persuaded.
Two months later, when Li Shuyao, dressed in the attire of an imperial concubine and standing arm in arm with Qingyao on the high platform to receive the kowtows of the concubines, she still could not believe that her life was so good.
She turned her head and whispered to Qingyao, "This is truly the Liliyuanshangpu..."
Qingyao calmly grasped her wrist, not looking away. "It's not outrageous. After all, it was me who recommended you to the Palace of Heavenly Purity."
Li Shuyao: “?”
It turns out it’s you!
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