After half a cup of tea
Xu Lejin said coldly, "Consort Qi Jia has committed insubordination and disregarded palace rules. Considering that she is pregnant with the emperor's child, she is hereby demoted to the rank of Changzai and confined to Yonghe Palace. Without the decree of the emperor and this palace, she is not allowed to step out even half a step."
Consort Qi Jia, well, she's already Consort Qi Jia.
She staggered a few steps and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, the palace maid behind her caught her quickly, preventing her from falling.
A few days later
News came from Yonghe Palace that Qi Jia was giving birth.
The afternoon sun shone on the earth, and a loud cry of a baby came from Yonghe Palace. Soon, everyone in the palace knew that Consort Qi had given birth to a little princess, and both mother and daughter were safe and sound.
Qi Jia was giving birth, but because she had offended Xu Lejin a few days earlier, which was considered disrespectful, Emperor Kangxi did not issue an edict to reward her. He only instructed Consort Que to arrange wet nurses and palace servants to carefully take care of the thirty-first princess born to Qi Jia.
Yonghe Palace
Qi Jia's mother looked at her daughter, who was in postpartum confinement, with a mixture of disappointment and frustration.
"My lady, you've been in the palace for so many years, and you finally conceived and were about to be promoted to the rank of Consort. But now? The Imperial Noble Consort is a title personally bestowed by the Emperor, equivalent to a secondary Empress."
"Now that you've given birth, Your Highness, the Emperor hasn't even come to see you, nor has he given you any reward. How will you survive in the palace from now on?"
Qi Jia Changzai's mother felt a throbbing headache whenever she thought about the family's decision when she was summoned to the palace to accompany her during childbirth.
The Qi Jia clan's intention is that if it is her daughter, the Qi Jia Noble Lady in the palace, who cannot be promoted to the rank of Consort after this childbirth, the family will have to give up on her.
Now, not only is there no hope of her becoming a concubine, but she has also been demoted one rank to a low-ranking concubine.
What should we do now?
As for her own family, they were just ordinary people. Over the years, she had only been able to secure her position as the mistress of the house by relying on her young master. Her own family couldn't help her at all!
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