Three months have passed in the blink of an eye.
In mid-December, Xie sent a message to the palace that Xu Huainian's wife had safely given birth to a daughter. The daughter was fair-skinned and tender, and exceptionally healthy, indicating that she had been well cared for in the womb.
February of the thirty-fourth year
Madam Xie brought her sixth daughter-in-law and her three-month-old granddaughter into the palace. Xu Lejin looked at her little niece in the swaddling clothes, whose eyebrows and eyes were gradually opening up, and whose features were delicate, and who had the best features of Xu Huainian and his wife. She couldn't put her down.
Just then, Emperor Kangxi arrived at Yikun Palace and saw the infant in swaddling clothes. He was very pleased with him.
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Emperor Kangxi subtly told Lady Xie that this little girl would marry into the royal family when she grew up.
Xu Lejin was happy to grant this request. So when Xie and her mother-in-law entered the palace, they were two adults and a baby. When they returned, they were accompanied by three nannies in their forties.
The three nannies were bestowed by Xu Lejin. Two of them were given to Xie Shi and Xu's fifth brother and sister-in-law who did not enter the palace today, while the third was designated for the infant maid in the sixth branch of the Xu family.
When the news reached the inner palace, Consort Hui angrily smashed many more porcelain ornaments.
Meanwhile, Consort De of Yongshou Palace vaguely guessed what had happened and was so angry that she didn't eat for three days. As for the other concubines in the palace who had princes, they weren't worried.
Even Consort Xin, who lived in the rear hall of Xu Lejin's palace, had a vague expectation.
However, Consort Xin thought again that her son, the Ninth Prince, was already eleven years old, and with a ten-year age difference, it seemed impossible.
Consort Xin pondered how to please the Imperial Noble Consort so that when the Ninth Prince was choosing a consort, the Imperial Noble Consort could speak favorably of her Ninth Prince to the Emperor and help him choose a consort from a more prestigious family.
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