Chapter 10: A new son Qi Buchen and Yinzhen looked over,...
Qi Buchen and Yinzhen looked over and saw an old clan elder in front of them, swaying and saying something to Kangxi. Several eunuchs around him supported the elder and sent him to the back.
"What's going on?" Qi Buchen asked puzzledly.
Yinzhen seemed to have seen this kind of thing many times. He took a look and ate his food calmly. When he heard her ask, he said, "I just drank too much and cried to the emperor."
After saying this, seeing Qi Buchen's surprised expression, he couldn't help but laugh: "What's the big deal? It's very common."
Qi Buchen felt that this did not match her impression: "No... This is not... Can it be so casual?"
Seeing her talking, gesturing, and hinting at things, Yinzhen smiled even more happily: "Why not? This is just a family dinner. If you're happy, drink more. If you're unhappy, drink more too. If you drink too much, won't you get drunk? If they lose their composure after drinking, what can the Emperor do to them? We're all elders."
Some generations can even trace back to the great-great-grandfather.
Qi Buchen was speechless. "But this is a royal family banquet. Shouldn't we be cautious at all times? What if I lose my composure after drinking? What if I'm charged with misbehavior in front of the emperor?"
Yinzhen seemed to know what she was thinking and said with a smile: "It's not as serious as you think. Just be at ease. Don't be afraid. I'm here."
Qi Buchen suddenly shut his mouth. Flirting with me? At such a young age, he actually grasped the essence of it!
Yinzhen felt that he had only said something very ordinary. He looked around and said to Qi Buchen, "It's time for me to go and toast. You just stay here. If there's anything you need, let Lin Changqing handle it. If you have nothing else, just talk to your sister-in-law."
Qi Buchen stood up with him and warned, "Don't drink too much, take it slow." He then said to Su Peisheng, who was holding the wine jug, "You have to be careful."
"Yes, Fu Jin." Su Peisheng responded with a humble look. During this period of time, he finally realized how much his master valued Fu Jin. As for the number? Of course, it's the number of refills. Pour less, don't fill it up like a fool.
After Yinzhen left, Qi Buchen sat leisurely eating and drinking, occasionally chatting with the eldest wife and talking about Nuo opera - in the whole hall, there were actually few people who watched the Nuo opera seriously, and Qi Buchen was the only one who had never seen it before and was watching it for fun.
By the time we returned to the courtyard after the banquet, it was already dark. Fortunately, the teachers in the study were sympathetic and did not assign any homework that day.
Qi Buchen said, "Sir, don't go to the study in the front yard. After you take a bath, just study in the house."
It was impossible to ask him not to review his lessons, but Yinzhen could accept a different location: "Don't you have a small study in the east wing? Just use it there. You can also have a place to copy the red characters."
Qi Buchen's mouth fell. She had originally thought that she could take a day off today...
Forget it, when doing things, you just have to persevere, only then will your hard work pay off! Well, come on!
Qi Buchen encouraged herself while taking a shower, but girls are slower, and when she arrived, Yinzhen had already read two pages of the book.
Because the two of them had not consummated their marriage yet, even though they had just taken a shower, they still wore a full set of clothes, which were more casual.
But there is no hair dryer at the moment, so my hair can only be left loose.
When they were concentrating on studying, neither of them spoke. One was reading, the other practicing calligraphy, and they looked quite harmonious - if you ignored the person who was constantly wiping their hair behind them.
There wasn't much to trace back, so Qi Buchen finished the two pages quickly. Yinzhen, feeling a bit dizzy from drinking too much, stopped after reading two pages. He then corrected Qi Buchen's traced work, and then they both went to bed.
But the second day was not idle either, as it was the main day of Laba Festival.
There was nothing to say about Yinzhen going to school. Qi Buchen got up early in the morning and rushed to Qixiang Palace. Under the leadership of Concubine Nianhulu, he completed a series of formal blessing ceremonies. Then he watched Concubine Nianhulu, in the name of the empress dowager, bestow the Laba porridge cooked overnight to the concubines one by one - her mother, Gioro, was among the first few batches.
Kangxi did the same thing before him. When Yinzhen had breakfast and dinner in the study, he also ate Laba porridge cooked in a big pot.
After the princes finished their lessons, the royal family gathered together again for a banquet, still eating Laba porridge, but this time there were no clan members accompanying them.
After Laba, preparations for the New Year would begin. Qi Buchen didn't have to worry about that. They lived in the palace, and everything was arranged by others. He only had to think about the New Year gifts for everyone, and oh, and the clothes for attending the New Year banquets for a few days.
"Fujin, someone from the Imperial Household Department is here. They want to ask you how to make clothes for the New Year." Baozhu came in and lifted the curtain and replied.
Normally, the clothes that the masters would wear for the New Year should have been decided long ago, otherwise, even if the Imperial Household Department had more embroiderers, they wouldn't have been able to make them in time. However, Qi Buchen had just married into the family, and she had missed the previous trip, so the Imperial Household Department had sent someone to ask about it now.
"Please come in." Qi Buchen changed into a coat suitable for people and asked the person to come in.
The maid from the Imperial Household Department brought several large volumes of patterns and said, "Greetings, Fourth Lady. It's time to make New Year's clothes. I'm wondering what designs you have in mind." She presented them, "Here are the ones we have. Please take a look and see if you like any of them. If you don't like any of them, you can take the patterns and ask our servants to make them."
Qi Buchen asked her to sit down first while he took the book and read it. This book looked like a picture book, and the meticulous painting method used made it look very realistic and pleasing to the eye.
Qi Buchen had just picked out a few that he liked when he heard a noise coming from far away outside. It sounded like it came from the duty room of the Imperial Hospital in the east.
"Baozhu, let Xie Hanshan go and see what happened." Qi Buchen frowned slightly, not knowing what had happened. This was not the time to practice riding and shooting, so it shouldn't be that any of the princes was injured, right?
Several days after entering the palace, Qi Buchen found out that there was not just one imperial physician in the palace, but several on duty. After all, the Forbidden City was so large, if there was only one, wouldn't it cause delays in emergencies?
As far as Qi Buchen knows, there is one in the southeast corner of the South Third House, which is specifically for the princes living here; the other is behind the Kunning Palace, which is specifically for serving the concubines in the harem.
Xie Hanshan left quickly and returned just as quickly: "Replying to the Lady, I heard that it was the concubine of Yuqing Palace who started it."
Is that the one from the family dinner? Qi Buchen immediately recognized her. He thought she was very pregnant, but he didn't expect she was already close to her due date.
This man is really careless. Qi Buchen muttered as he ordered: "Xiao Xiezi, take the people to Yuqing Palace to guard and report back when the baby is born. Baozhu, you and Songying take out the prepared gifts and check them carefully."
"Yes." The two agreed and went about their business.
Qi Buchen no longer had the energy to choose, so he picked a few and sent all the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs away.
Baohuan asked from the side, "Fujin, won't you come over and show yourself?"
Qi Buchen looked at her strangely. She seemed to be very efficient at work, so why did she ask such a stupid question?
Matron Ham didn't seem to expect her to say this, and thought she would have to teach her a lesson in the future.
Baohuan felt guilty when she was looked at: "Did I say something wrong?"
Qi Buchen didn't intend to blame her: "The Crown Princess has been decided, and the wedding is coming soon."
A concubine is said to be noble, but isn't she just a concubine? How can the wife be happy if she gave birth to a child before the wife married in? If this happened, giving face to a concubine would be like trampling on the face of the Crown Princess.
As for the gift, it was not given to the concubine, but to the prince, and no one could find fault with it.
Qi Buchen sat there absent-mindedly, sometimes thinking about what his future sisters-in-law would be like, and sometimes thinking about Yinzhen's future concubines.
It seemed that the concubine had a very difficult pregnancy. It had been four or five hours since Xie Hanshan passed away, but there was no news at all.
Qi Buchen simply started looking at the account books - although she had gradually gotten the hang of the housekeeping duties, the account books still needed to be organized properly and changed to the format she was used to.
More than an hour later, Xie Hanshan returned with his face blue from the cold: "Replying to the Madam, the concubine of Yuqing Palace has given birth to a prince, weighing seven pounds and five ounces. Both mother and child are doing well."
While Qi Buchen was calling Lin Changqing to deliver the gift, he said to Xie Hanshan, "Go down and drink the ginger soup quickly. After you finish drinking it, cover yourself up. I'll give you a day off. Don't get sick."
"Thank you, Madam, for your consideration." Xie Hanshan happily left with the reward given to him by Baozhu. He did not feel resentful about the difference between him doing the hard work and Lin Changqing getting a good show.
Qi Buchen didn't feel anything about the fact that the prince had another son, but others did.
Yinzhen told Qi Buchen about it after he came back from the horse riding and archery class.
"Big brother is coming to the training ground today."
The author has something to say:
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Yinzhen: Wife, let's have a baby too.
Qi Buchen: Then you may have to wait for several more years.
Yinzhen: [crying.JPG]
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