The Empress Dowager glanced at her sideways after hearing the Empress Dowager's words, "What, you want to have a baby? Can you even have one?"
"Your Majesty, what are you saying?" The Empress Dowager was furious. She didn't want to have a child at all. Her life was so good now, why did she have to have a child? She was already a grandmother, how could she do such a... shameless thing!
She's waiting for the Fifth Prince to have a child so she can take care of it! Even if she could have a child, she wouldn't have one with Fu Lin. But then again, who knows if Fu Lin can still have children?
"Your Majesty, please give up on this idea! Don't give the Emperor another brother. The Crown Prince is already so grown up. Even if Fulin were to be born, he might be played to death by the Emperor and the Crown Prince in the blink of an eye!" The Empress Dowager kindly advised the Grand Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager looked at the Empress Dowager with a dark expression, "Can't you use your brain?! Why did you have to have so many children?!"
Kangxi was raised by the Empress Dowager. She understood him well, and he would consult her on some matters. However, if she overstepped her bounds, Kangxi would show no mercy.
"Didn't I think you were still as stubborn as before?" the Empress Dowager muttered under her breath, dissatisfied.
The Empress Dowager picked up her teacup and gulped it down, finally suppressing her rage that made her want to kill the Empress Dowager. No wonder Fulin disliked the Empress Dowager; he spoke without thinking! Fulin, your mother misunderstood you. I thought you were deliberately going against me! I'm so sorry to have wronged you.
"Empress Dowager, the Emperor and the others have returned!" Granny Su came in to report.
"Where are we?" the Empress Dowager asked, standing up.
"We'll be at Cining Palace soon!"
"Good, good!" The Empress Dowager walked towards the door.
"As expected, I was about to see my son. My backache and leg pain have instantly disappeared!" The Empress Dowager said with a disdainful sneer as she looked at the Grand Empress Dowager.
Looking at the familiar Cining Palace, Xingchi felt a pang of sadness, especially when he saw the Empress Dowager with her graying temples leaning against the door; his eyes welled up with tears.
Emperor Kangxi had already sent people to clear the area beforehand, so no one would see Xingchi.
Xingchi quickly walked towards the Empress Dowager, "Mother, your son is back!"
With tears glistening in her eyes and her hands trembling slightly, the Empress Dowager looked at Xingchi, who wore a monk's robe and had a Buddhist rosary on his head, holding prayer beads in his hand. Her hand slowly reached out towards Xingchi's face.
"Strike! Strike them hard!" the Empress Dowager silently shouted in her heart.
The Empress Dowager gently stroked Xingchi's face.
The Empress Dowager was quite disappointed. What was the point of not punishing such a rebellious son? Why keep him around for the New Year?
"Mother, your son is unfilial!" Xingchi knelt before the Empress Dowager.
"Now you know you're being unfilial, but what were you doing back then!" the Empress Dowager muttered.
Although the Empress Dowager's voice was very soft, it sounded quite abrupt in the otherwise quiet Cining Palace, and everyone heard what she said.
Xingchi looked at the Empress Dowager and realized that He Xue was right; the Empress Dowager really didn't want him to come back.
"How dare you! Why are you looking at me like that?" The Empress Dowager glared angrily at Xingchi.
Before the Empress Dowager could recover from the joy of seeing her son, she sensed the Empress Dowager's displeasure.
"Qiqige, you still have such a bad temper!" Xingchi said. All these years of chanting Buddhist scriptures have not been for nothing. In the past, he would have already gone up to argue with the Empress Dowager.
"How dare you utter my name!" The Empress Dowager now greatly favors the word "Aijia" (哀家). What does "Aijia" mean? It's the self-reference used after one's husband's death. And she, Qiqige, is a woman whose husband has died!
"Qiqige, you should control your temper!" the Empress Dowager said to the Empress Dowager.
"Your Majesty, I've been by your side all these years. What has this bald monk been doing? He's only been concerned with his own pleasure. Now that he's back, you're still favoring him!" The Empress Dowager said, pointing at Xingchi with dissatisfaction.
"Bald monk?" Everyone present suppressed their laughter upon hearing the Empress Dowager's words.
Xingchi looked at the Empress Dowager with disdain; this was the reason why he hated Mongolian women.
"You!" The Empress Dowager looked at the Empress Dowager with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.
"Your Majesty, what do you want to do with this bald... monk?" the Empress Dowager asked, as long as it didn't affect her.
The Empress Dowager was somewhat perplexed; where would be a suitable place to arrange it?
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