"So, it's her again?! You can go now!"
“Oh, right,” the steward said, taking two steps back as if he had just remembered something, “the wife of the Second East Courtyard is pregnant.”
Huang Taiji suddenly looked up and asked, "What's going on in the East Second Courtyard now?"
"Usually, it's to pay respects to the East Courtyard's Princess Consort."
The manager thought for a moment and replied seriously.
Huang Taiji narrowed his eyes, and an idea came to him.
Standing in the shadows for a long time, I silently shed tears.
Once outside the study, he was as serious as ever, as if those tears were merely a fleeting shooting star.
The Grand Consort of the Prince's Mansion was buried as scheduled.
After all, he has already been cremated.
It's quite interesting, actually.
Early Manchu funeral practices were diverse, including cremation, burial, tree burial, sky burial, and water burial.
This is mainly due to differences in living location and economic conditions.
For example, during periods when hunting was the primary mode of transportation, cremation became a common practice due to frequent migrations and the difficulty of bringing back bodies when someone died while hunting.
Many Manchu soldiers died in battle during the early Qing Dynasty, and cremation was the most common method of burial. Tree burial was also an option.
Sherry did it all right the first time, saving you a lot of trouble~
Huang Taiji arranged two nurses to care for Wuyoudai.
And various jewels were delivered to Uyghurst's courtyard in a steady stream.
It wasn't Zhe Zhe who got furious first, but Hauge.
Hauge was utterly disappointed in Huang Taiji upon hearing the news.
"My mother's body is barely cold, and you, Father, are heartless and ungrateful!" Hauge's eyes widened in anger, his face filled with indignation.
Loge hurriedly grabbed his brother, but his face showed his distress while secretly giving Haug a hard pinch on the lower back.
Huang Taiji's expression turned cold in an instant.
Seeing her two sons, one filled with grief and the other with sorrow, the anger in her heart suddenly dissipated.
"I have my own plans. You all just need to take care of yourselves!"
After Huang Taiji finished speaking, he drifted away.
Hauge stared at Huang Taiji's retreating figure, his eyes filled with hatred.
Loge pulled his brother back to his room and forced him to rest.
"Why are you pulling me? Am I wrong? I really misjudged him! He doesn't deserve—" Haug was so angry that his face turned red and his neck bulged. He wanted to say something, but Loge covered his mouth.
"Can't you just shut your mouth? Don't you understand what you should and shouldn't say? He's not just our father, and besides, we're still young and inexperienced. What can we do even if we're angry and resentful? We should use his guilt to achieve our goal!"
Loge couldn't resist the urge to bite his brother.
Since we weren't together before, I didn't feel anything.
Later, when he went to the front lines, he found that his brother was like a fire-breathing dragon every day.
With the flattery of the lackeys around him, his brother's mouth is bound to cause trouble sooner or later!
Loge couldn't help but think of Sherry's thoughts.
"Then tell me, what should we do? Mother has only been gone for a short time, and he..." Hauge said, tears streaming down his face.
“Brother, your mouth will get you into trouble sooner or later! In the past, we had Mother to mediate between Father and us, but in the future, once Father has another child and a wife, our situation will be awkward! So, while he is feeling most guilty now, let's fight for what we want!”
Loge tapped the table unconsciously, his expression strikingly similar to that of Huang Taiji.
"Strive for what? Do you expect me to marry a wife from a good family?" Hauge asked innocently, his eyes wide open.
Log: ...
Loge's expression became incredibly complex in an instant.
Who said his brother was stupid? He's quite clever; he even knew to marry a wife.
"It's not impossible! But what I'm thinking is that my mother always wanted to see the sea before she passed away, so let's try to get a small island for her mausoleum! We can only do this much to help our parents when they are no longer there to care for us..."
Loge met Haug's bewildered gaze and forced out a few tears.
Haug couldn't help but burst into tears again, directly interrupting Log's thoughts.
Loge felt that the Eternal Heaven was particularly fair at this moment. His brother inherited his father's strong physique, as well as his mother's intermittent madness.
He, on the contrary, believed that intelligence was more important; with intelligence, he could get more "big brothers" to do things for him.
To be honest, seeing his older brother like this, he didn't miss his mother as much anymore.
Log was in a daze, while Haug, standing to the side, was crying with his mouth wide open, tears and snot streaming down his face.
The servants arranged by Huang Taiji heard the eldest prince crying from afar. When they got closer, they saw a grown man sitting on the ground crying without any regard for his image.
The guard was so moved by what he saw that he almost cried.
After visiting Wuyoudai, Huang Taiji stayed alone in his study.
Upon learning that Hauge's eyes were red and swollen from crying, he couldn't help but rub his temples wearily.
Sitting in the chair, I was filled with self-mockery!
He had hoped she would disappear; after all, no one could stop the progress of his grand scheme.
But later, without realizing it, he kept the person in his heart, and he couldn't bear to make a move again, so he thought about taking a step back.
They even went to great lengths to cover up the traces!
He never imagined that while he was hoping she would live a good life, she would just disappear like that.
Huang Taiji felt more than once that he was dreaming.
Or rather, he felt that the person who died in that courtyard was not Sherry.
After all, he didn't get to see his wife one last time.
Even the corpses...
Therefore, he has been experiencing extreme emotional turmoil these days.
On the one hand, even if that person truly disappears completely from the world, he will gradually forget that person over time.
On the one hand, that person must not be dead; if he didn't witness it himself, then it doesn't count!
Huang Taiji would only be somewhat dazed when facing Hauge and Loge.
At other times, everything was calm, as if nothing had happened.
Nurhaci was both pleased with his lack of concern for personal feelings and somewhat surprised by his indifference.
However, what he needs is a useful son!
When Huang Taiji learned that he had visited the pregnant Wuyoudai many times, he felt that his son looked a lot like him.
What Nurhaci was thinking was unknown to others.
Hauge only took several days to recover before he and Loge requested an audience with Huang Taiji.
“My mother used to spend a lot of time in the courtyard before she passed away. Later, she fell ill and even rode a horse less often, which was always her regret. She envied the freedom of the gyrfalcon. I thought that I should build a mausoleum for my mother on the island to fulfill my filial duty.”
Loge's face was visibly pale, and Huang Taiji felt a pang of heartache looking at him.
Hearing this, I was a little surprised and couldn't help but look at Hauge.
“My mother has told me about high mountains, grasslands, and gyrfalcons, but she’s never seen the sea. She also said that the seafood sold by traveling merchants is delicious, and that fresh sea fish tastes even better…”
At this point, Haug couldn't help but pout.
Huang Taiji listened to his words with a stunned expression.
He could picture the pleading look on his wife's face when she said those words.
Cute and endearing.
"Where do you think is suitable?" Huang Taiji had no complaints.
After all, the Ming Dynasty would be his for the taking in the future!
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