"I love listening to everything my mother tells me!"
The little guy nestled comfortably in her arms.
Sherry couldn't help but chuckle to herself. She suddenly remembered that he hadn't seemed to have openly resisted her advances.
After all, adults have boundaries when it comes to strangers.
At least for the first few days, he resisted drinking milk.
I don't know what kind of mental preparation I did for myself, but after a few days I started drinking it.
Moreover, their expectations for complementary foods far exceeded those for Jinghua.
Sherry probably forgot how she kissed the two little cubs like a hungry wolf pouncing on its prey.
She kissed the little girl, and the little girl giggled with joy.
She kissed her son, who then turned his head to the other side.
Shirley wasn't discouraged at all, and pinched his cheek again for another bite.
He still wasn't laughing, so I tickled him.
The main focus is on perseverance.
She may have forgotten Jingrong, but she hasn't.
At that time, he realized that his mother was no ordinary person.
He even openly cursed the emperor in front of the servants.
He showed absolutely no regard for his father, the emperor, in this lifetime.
Could it be that his maternal grandfather's family were powerful officials?
I was just young at the time, and my body couldn't take it, so I fell asleep while thinking about the problem.
Now, he's used to it.
After all, besides his father, the emperor, his grandmother also doted on him.
Therefore, he was very content, having a mother, a younger sister, and a maternal grandmother in this life.
It's normal that the Emperor wasn't particularly close to him.
After all, the ruler of a country is always very busy, he understood.
Sherry had no idea what he was thinking.
He is a master of disguise; he never speaks of what's on his mind.
Seeing that he seemed normal enough, Sherry didn't worry unnecessarily.
The Lunar New Year will be here again soon.
After the New Year, Consort Qin gave birth to a son.
That's not the point. The point is that Shunzhi gave the child to Consort Dong'e.
Dong Eshi officially became a virtuous consort in the fifteenth year of the Shunzhi Emperor's reign.
While the family was having dinner, Sherry almost didn't react when she heard what Tus said.
"A virtuous concubine? So virtuous? Stealing someone else's child?!" Shirley immediately sneered.
"Yes, it is His Majesty's will!" Tus stammered.
"Come on, if it weren't her idea, would he have done this? If she had just said she was afraid of passing on her illness to the child, would the Emperor have forced her?"
Sherry thought that couple was really something else!
"Mother? Who stole someone else's child?" Jinghua asked her, her head adorned with two cute little tufts of hair.
Sherry pinched her little face.
"It's nothing. Just remember to keep your distance from the concubines in the harem, especially those in Yikun Palace!"
The little girl still didn't quite understand, but she obediently nodded.
Jingrong didn't say anything.
The next day, Shirley went to Chung Tsui Palace.
Seeing Qin's red and swollen eyes, he was somewhat furious.
"Take care of yourself first, there's plenty of time! She's not going to outlive you!"
As Sherry was speaking, Tus pulled her several times.
Qin suddenly fell to the ground and kowtowed three times to Xue Li.
"Your Majesty, I beg you, please let me see my child again!"
Qin couldn't help but burst into tears again.
Sherry nodded in agreement: "If she won't let you see her, just come to me!"
Qin kowtowed again in excitement.
"The premise is that you take good care of yourself first!"
After speaking, Sherry left Zhongcui Palace.
She did want to mention it to the Empress Dowager, but then she thought that the Qing Dynasty had a long-standing custom of exchanging children for adoption.
During the Later Jin period, even the children of high-ranking officials were raised in the palace.
Moreover, concubines could exchange children to raise.
There are now special places for princes.
The Qing Dynasty court established an institution called the "Prince's Residence" specifically to take care of imperial heirs.
The main purpose of this system was to prevent the mother-son relationship from becoming too close, which could lead to problems such as empresses interfering in politics.
Therefore, even if the birth mothers of princes and princesses are in the palace, they are usually not allowed to be raised directly by their birth mothers.
However, because of Shirley's thoughtfulness, the concubines could visit the children every few days and also bring them back to the palace for meals.
But then Shunzhi did this...
No, this is a tactic employed by Dong E.
That's true, she's not feeling well right now, so she's not receiving much attention.
It's probably because he was good at flattering and conveyed the desired emotional value. See Heshen for an example.
It is estimated that she often had Shunzhi sleep with other women, and even introduced women of the same type to her in order to gain Shunzhi's favor.
After all, among this group of people, Qin was skilled in dancing and was also charming and affectionate.
She was the most favored among the imperial concubines.
Dong E's methods were merely a means to restrain the Qin family.
Shirley returned to the palace and focused on refining her cultivation techniques.
Unexpectedly, instead of causing trouble for Shunzhi, Shunzhi came to him first.
Emperor Shunzhi arrived in a rage.
As soon as he entered the hall, he kicked a chair next to him.
Sherry chuckled, looking at his ambiguous smile.
"Empress!" Shunzhi acted with great force, but his expression was not so excited.
"Something wrong?!" Sherry sat calmly, glancing at him sideways.
"How can you, as the Empress, curse others?" Shunzhi wasn't angry; he changed the subject.
"Who did I curse?" Sherry asked, resting her chin on her hand with a look of great interest.
"'She's not destined to outlive you,' isn't that what you said?" Shunzhi asked with absolute certainty, as if he had caught Xue Li in a compromising situation.
“I said it, what’s wrong with what I said?!” Sherry said with a self-righteous expression.
What a joke! She's the Empress, why would she play the coy, hesitant, and subtly advance game of a favored concubine?
"You, you are unrepentant!" Shunzhi shouted angrily at her expression.
"Ha! A sickly woman, yet she has to raise a son. Isn't she afraid of making the child sick? I didn't slap her because I'm kind-hearted!" Shirley leaned back in her chair, her posture anything but dignified.
“She was physically weak and had a difficult pregnancy—” Shunzhi was about to make amends when Xue Li interrupted him.
“Then the mothers who are pregnant have it even harder! Besides, there are so many concubines in the harem who haven’t given birth. Why did Your Majesty have to give them to such a sickly woman?! Because she can cheat on her husband? She really doesn’t deserve that talent!” Shirley really thought so.
"Empress!" Shunzhi pointed at Xue Li, his finger trembling as if he had Parkinson's disease.
"What? Did I say something wrong again? If Your Majesty stands up for your favorite concubine, then you'd better kill me this time! Otherwise, I'll definitely let her experience what it's like to be the mistress of the harem!"
Sherry stared coldly at Shunzhi, already having already planned out how he would die.
Looking at Xue Li, Shunzhi suddenly remembered the Jade Aunt incident from a few years ago.
Yes, because of the cold medicine, she had the same look in her eyes back then.
Cold and indifferent!
He disliked ordinary women who were more assertive than him, yet he couldn't forget that icy gaze from that moment.
However, Shunzhi was feeling inexplicably depressed at the moment.
Upon hearing those words, he immediately ordered his men to keep quiet.
He didn't know why he did it.
But he was genuinely angry.
He thought the Empress would apologize to him and he would forgive her.
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