"Little Fourth, Mother is tired. You go and rest first, and I'll play with you again when I'm feeling better!"
Yinzhen immediately smiled. He had been a little worried that he might have said something wrong and upset his mother, so he quickly nodded and said, "Mother, then I'll take my leave now. Please get some rest!"
Yinzhen's wet nurse had already noticed what had just happened and was afraid that she would be implicated. So after Yinzhen finished saying his farewell, she also bowed respectfully, took his hand, and left the inner hall.
After Yinzhen and the others left, Tongjia glared fiercely at the doorway, intending to smash the teacup beside her on the ground, but Min'er stopped her.
"Your Majesty, you mustn't! We just returned to the palace today!"
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We'll talk about the harem later; let's look at the Qianqing Palace first.
After arriving at the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Kangxi first dealt with some of the backlog of memorials, and then summoned several people to the palace to discuss matters concerning Taiwan. For lunch, he only drank some tea and ate some pastries.
The banquet was to be held at 5:45 PM. Seeing that there was still some time, he asked Li Dequan to summon Yinreng to the Qianqing Palace.
As for the other children, even though he was in the palace, he rarely saw them, so he didn't have much affection for them.
"Your Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince has arrived!"
Li Dequan knocked on the door and quietly informed the person, then stood aside and waited.
Yinreng was a little nervous. He had just had lunch with the Empress Dowager and originally wanted to go back to Yuqing Palace, but the Empress Dowager told him to rest in Cining Palace. So after lunch, he chatted with the Empress Dowager for a while.
"Let him in!"
Emperor Kangxi put down his brush, leaned back on the dragon throne, and waited for Yinreng.
"Your subject pays respects to Your Majesty! Long live the Emperor!"
Yinreng was a little uneasy. He knew that his father was very smart, so he figured that his father had already seen through what happened that morning, which was why he had scolded him like that.
It was indeed his fault. He was the Crown Prince, the son on whom his father, the Emperor, placed high hopes, and the son whom his father had personally raised. Even if he was unhappy, he shouldn't have shown it like that.
Although Emperor Kangxi felt sorry for Yinreng, he did not let him stand up immediately. He just watched him quietly until a quarter of an hour later when he said, "Get up first!"
"Thank you, Father Emperor!"
Yinreng's legs were already a little numb, but he dared not say anything. He endured the discomfort and stood up properly to the side without making a sound.
Kangxi had already passed the point of being angry at the city gate, so seeing Yinreng's expression, he couldn't help but ask Li Dequan to bring over a chair.
"Baocheng! You are no longer a child, and you are even the Crown Prince! During my absence, have you learned nothing, or even regressed?"
Yinreng looked up at Kangxi in disbelief. He had made a mistake, but he had been studying and had not neglected his studies.
"Father, Bao Cheng was wrong!"
After Yinreng finished speaking, he wanted to kneel on the ground, but Kangxi stopped him.
Li Dequan stood outside the door, unable to hear any sound from inside, and was somewhat worried that Kangxi might actually be angry about this.
Fortunately, what he was hearing wasn't the roaring and questioning he had imagined, but a calm conversation. Having served the emperor for many years, he could tell whether the emperor was truly angry or not.
The two knew what they talked about. Although it was only a short two-quarters of an hour from when Yinreng went in to when he came out, Li Dequan felt that everything seemed to have changed.
I hope nothing bad happens!
When Harigana woke up at Qingxi Palace, it was almost dusk!
"Your Majesty, you're awake?"
Dulan had been staying by the bedside, so when she tried to sit up, she rushed over to help her. Hai Ri, who was outside, heard the commotion and came in to take care of Harigana.
She didn't expect to sleep for so long, and she slept so soundly.
Before she could finish washing up, she heard Xiao Li knocking on the door.
"Come in!"
Hai Ri signaled for Xiao Li to come in.
"This servant greets Your Highness! Your Highness, people from the Imperial Household Department have arrived with some clothes and a few matrons. They say they want to take your measurements so they can make you court robes when they get back."
They didn't expect it to happen so quickly. Little Li and his men were quite happy, after all, those people from the Imperial Household Department really knew how to treat people differently based on their status, so their rush to come over was precisely to gain face in front of their master!
But Harigana didn't think so. She had read history books before, and although she knew that a large part of what was recorded in them might be false, she still didn't dare to easily trust the current Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Uya, the historically famous Consort De, should still be Consort De now. Whether in novels or the unofficial histories she'd read, Uya, despite being a bondservant, was no ordinary person.
Now, she not only didn't know whether Uya's grandfather was still serving in the palace, but she couldn't even ask. Given the ancients' keen intellect and sensitivity, she had only just entered the palace, and for whatever reason, she couldn't bring herself to ask these questions.
"Let them in!"
Harigana could only wait and see. Many things were interconnected, and she couldn't afford to reveal even the slightest mistake, or she would lose everything.
She went outside and sat on the low couch, waiting for the people from the Imperial Household Department to come in and take her measurements.
A short while later, Little Li came in with a few people, the leader of whom was a middle-aged man who looked not very tall but rather fat.
Harigana disliked this man from the first glance, even though he didn't do anything to her. She could clearly see the scrutiny in his eyes, and she felt that he must be related to one of the concubines in the harem.
"This servant greets Your Highness, Consort Chen!"
Several people were kneeling on the ground, and some of them were holding trays covered with red cloth, which were probably newly made clothes.
What's most troublesome about Harigana is their Manchu clothing. It's one thing for the clothes to be loose and loose, but why do they have to wear those ridiculous flowerpot soles? Won't they fall over?
"Get up!"
Harigana's voice was indifferent, partly because she had just woken up and was still a little groggy, and partly because the steward's gaze made her uncomfortable, and she had no interest in him whatsoever.
"This servant thanks Your Highness, Consort Chen!"
After the rustling sounds subsided, several old women stood to one side, while only the fat man stepped forward: "This servant is the Deputy Chief Steward of the Imperial Household Department. If Your Highness needs anything from me in the future, please feel free to have Eunuch Li find me!"
Harigana didn't even glance at him, but still replied, "Thank you for your kindness! Little Li, here's a reward!"
This completely baffled everyone in the room; they had never encountered their master handling things this way before. No matter what, their Imperial Household Department was always the object of flattery from the concubines of the harem!
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