"My beloved concubine is too modest, but this name is indeed mine to choose. Let it be Honghui!"
An Ning was taken aback. Hong Hui?
The son of the fourth prince, born to Lady Ulanara in history, never had any children in his lifetime, so his name was never used.
"My beloved concubine, do you think this name is good?"
An Ning came to her senses and said, "Hui means light. In spring, the sun spreads its blessings and all things are born with light. This name has a good meaning. Hong Hui has the Emperor's blessing and will surely grow up safely into the kind of person the Emperor expects."
Upon hearing this, Kangxi laughed heartily, then summoned Liang Jiugong and sent the reward and imperial edict to the Sixteenth Prince's residence.
An Ning didn't think much of it; it was just a name, but someone had taken it to heart.
When Dong Eshi heard that Yin Yi's eldest son was named Hong Hui, she was stunned.
"Granny, what did you just say? What is the name of the Sixteenth Prince's eldest son?"
"Your name is Honghui, my wife. Is there anything wrong with this name?"
The nanny couldn't understand Dong E's confusion. The name was quite good, very normal, and had a good meaning. However, the names of the princes and grandsons of the emperor all had good meanings and were not particularly special.
Dong Eshi shook her head as if possessed: "Granny, go out, I need some peace and quiet."
After the nanny left, only Dong Eshi remained in the room. Her eyes were filled with madness as she couldn't understand how her life had come to this.
Her husband disliked her, she had no children, and everything she wanted was going wrong. When she heard that Yin Yi's eldest son was named Hong Hui, Dong E Shi doubted for a moment whether she could still become empress.
Anning was tricked by her and entered the palace by mistake, gave birth to a healthy and intelligent son, and now has a healthy grandson named Honghui. She has both children and grandchildren, but what about her?
Can she really achieve her goal?
Even if she became empress, an empress who was not favored and not respected by the emperor, how could her fate be good?
Lady Dong'e cried as she thought about it. If this was her fate, she would rather not have been reborn. Even if she could start over, her life would not have been as good as her previous one. Even though the Third Prince had many faults, the two of them had been loving and sweet, and had children.
"Heavens above! How unfair! Hahaha..."
From then on, Lady Dong'e seemed to have become a different person. She began to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures in the backyard, and gradually developed a transcendent temperament, which startled the Fourth Prince.
However, seeing that she did not intend to harm anyone, he let it go, since she had not forgotten her duties as a wife and had done what she was supposed to do.
Marital discord is perhaps just not his destiny.
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That day, Anning ran into Dong Eshi on her way back to Changchun Palace after leaving the Empress Dowager's palace.
When Dong E saw An Ning, her eyes were calmer than ever before: "Greetings, Consort Shu."
Anning: "Fourth Princess Consort, there's no need for such formalities. I have other matters to attend to, so I won't say any more to you."
Dong Eshi: "Respectfully seeing off Lady Shu."
After returning, Anning summoned Baishu: "Go and ask the Fourth Prince's residence if anything has happened recently. The Fourth Princess Consort seems a bit abnormal."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After Bai Shu's investigation, nothing major happened at the Fourth Prince's residence, but there was one thing that was rather unusual for the time being.
“Your Majesty, the Fourth Prince Consort has specially set up a small Buddhist shrine. Now, apart from handling the trivial matters of the inner quarters, she spends all her time chanting Buddhist scriptures in the small Buddhist shrine. I have made a special investigation and found that the Fourth Prince Consort is truly devoted to Buddhism and is not just going through the motions.”
An Ning found it strange. Dong Eshi had been reborn and returned, yet she was chanting Buddhist scriptures? Was she having come to terms with it, or was that why she was chanting Buddhist scriptures?
When did it start?
"It started shortly after Prince Honghui was born."
Honghui!
Honghui?
"No way," Anning thought of a possibility, then thought of the miserable life Dong Eshi had endured over the years. "Could she really have let go?"
It's not impossible. Given Dong E's current status in the Fourth Prince's harem, even if the Fourth Prince becomes emperor, she, as empress, might not necessarily be very glamorous.
"Never mind, just have someone keep an eye on Fourth Prince's wife, there's no need to do anything else."
Dong Eshi was not considered An Ning's primary enemy, but she was still a variable, and people had been keeping an eye on her all these years.
As expected, Honghui's full-month celebration was very grand. As the eldest grandson of the favored concubine, it would have seemed suspicious if Yinyi had handled it carelessly.
Anning only met Honghui after the full moon celebration.
It was Jin Yao who brought it.
"Greetings to Mother."
Anning smiled and said, "Get up quickly and sit down. You've just finished your postpartum period. Didn't your mother say that it's okay to come over a little later?"
Jin Yao smiled gently: "Mother is so considerate of her daughter-in-law, and I appreciate it. I asked the family physician, the imperial physician, and the nanny, and they all said that I am recovering very well, so I came here."
An Ning nodded: "That's good. Childbirth is a hurdle for us women. We need to take good care of ourselves and not be careless."
Jin Yao sincerely thanked An Ning. What mother-in-law would choose to care for her daughter-in-law first, between her daughter-in-law and grandson? Her mother-in-law would be one.
Honestly, she never imagined that marrying the emperor would bring her such a comfortable life. Her mother-in-law truly loved her, her husband was very considerate and caring, and now she had a son. She really had everything she needed.
“Mother is right, I understand. This is Honghui, Mother, please take a look.”
An Ning shifted her gaze to the baby being held in the wet nurse's arms: "Bring this child here, let me see him."
The wet nurse came forward with the child in her arms. Anning took the child from her arms. Judging from her posture, she was obviously very familiar with the child. Jinyao saw this and had some thoughts in her mind. Her approach to raising the child was the same as that of many wealthy women at the time. The wet nurse fed the child and occasionally showed concern. After all, she was not exactly free.
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