Emperor Kangxi has recently been receiving Mongolian princes and nobles, and it is worth mentioning that Princess Rongxian has also arrived.
Consort Rong accompanied the emperor on this trip. The mother and daughter embraced and wept upon seeing each other, but what they talked about remains unknown.
Princess Rongxian was later summoned by Emperor Kangxi and they talked for an entire afternoon.
Yinzhen has been so busy these past two days that he hasn't had a moment to spare and hasn't had time to take Changning for a walk.
However, Changning herself is also quite busy.
Mongolians also have female relatives! Those wives of princes and dukes, of course, wouldn't be her place to entertain; Consort Rong is there. But besides them, there are also concubines, young princesses, and the like.
Changning was talking to them inside the yurt.
Fucha Boder was quite famous in Mongolia. He was a brave warrior and was considered a Baturu (a high-ranking official). The grasslands respected men and heroes.
Therefore, these native grassland women had the greatest enthusiasm for her and did not regard her as someone from the capital at all.
The group of women, who seemed to know each other well from the start, ate snacks, drank milk tea, and chatted and laughed together. Their voices were louder than those of the women in the capital, and their manners were less formal.
Changning also liked their cheerful personalities and felt more comfortable with them than with the other princesses in the princes' residences.
The milk tea here is all salty, which Changning doesn't like. She prefers sweet milk tea, so she asked Chef Ma to imitate the modern way of making milk tea. He first put tea leaves and white sugar into a pot and slowly stir-fry them over low heat until they turn caramel color, then add hot water and bring it to a boil before adding milk.
This time, both sweet and salty milk tea were prepared. The Mongolian noblewomen found it novel and all thought the sweet one was better.
After drinking the sweet milk tea in Changning and chatting for a while, they discovered that she was also a straightforward person. The Mongolian ladies then started chatting freely, and the place quickly became the center of gossip.
"The youngest son of the Prince of Durbet married a new wife a couple of years ago, didn't he? But this new wife discovered that she looked eight or nine points similar to the previous wife, and even found many of that woman's paintings under her husband's bed. She was so angry that she tore the paintings to shreds and started yelling that she wanted to go back to her parents' home!"
One of the ladies said in a low voice.
Changning raised an eyebrow. Good heavens, Wanwan is just like you!
Another woman chimed in, "And that's not all! After that wife went back to her parents' home, she kept saying she wanted a divorce. Her brother disagreed and sent her back. In a fit of anger, she ran away with three hundred people and cattle and sheep!"
"She ran away?" Changning was shocked. Good heavens, his runaway little wife!
Seeing her interest, the woman spoke even more enthusiastically, "Yes, after she ran away, her youngest son became anxious, saying he regretted it deeply and is now searching for her all over the grasslands!"
Changning couldn't help but click his tongue twice. She tried to escape, he chased, but she couldn't get away!
A round-faced woman next to them pushed them aside, her tone contemptuous, "You're nothing compared to her. Listen to me, Mengguqing, the daughter of the Ujumqin prince, wasn't she pursuing Amur, the crown prince of the Aohan tribe, for the past two years? If you ask me, that Amur crown prince is really brave, able to kill the White-Eyed Wolf King, and handsome too, but he only has eyes for Mengguqing's sister, the child born to that stable boy."
Another woman rolled her eyes and scoffed, "Even a stable boy's child has this kind of good fortune?"
"It's true! This Mengguqing princess is of noble birth, beautiful, and lively and generous. Many Mongolian princes are infatuated with her! But this Prince Amur is so ungrateful."
The drama of unrequited love, ah, Changning sipped her milk tea and ate sunflower seeds while imagining the love and hate between the three of them.
As a result, the news that Yinzhen brought when he returned that evening left her dumbfounded.
Today, during a meeting with various Mongol tribes, we learned that both the Manchus and Mongols have a martial spirit, so we started playing the buk (a type of Mongolian game).
Of this group of young warriors, Prince Amur was the strongest, having thrown more than ten men without losing his strength.
Emperor Kangxi was overjoyed and wanted to reward him with a golden knife. Unexpectedly, the Crown Prince of Amur knelt down and asked for nothing more than a marriage decree from the Emperor.
It is said that the prince of Aohan tribe turned green with rage.
Because the woman he was proposing to marry, although she was the daughter of a prince of the Ujumqin tribe, was not Mengguqing Gege, and the daughter of that stable boy was named Yaruo.
Aren't the children of stable boys just slaves?
What kind of lowly status is this?
Prince Aohan was so angry he nearly fell backward.
But the Crown Prince Amur's gaze was firm, his words sincere, and he seemed determined to kneel until he died if the emperor disagreed.
Emperor Kangxi was quite pleased. Both the Aohan and Ujumqin tribes were among the most powerful tribes, and there were disadvantages to their marriage alliance.
Things are fine now. Although Amur married the daughter of the Ujumchin prince, she was the son of a stable boy and posed no threat.
Therefore, Emperor Kangxi readily agreed.
Crown Prince Amur laughed so hard his eyes disappeared, and jumped three feet high, a stark contrast to his father's green face.
Meanwhile, the prince of the Ujumchin tribe was also unhappy. He had always cherished Mengguqing, and although he favored Amur as his son-in-law, it was only to make Mengguqing happy.
So what's going on now?
Of the people present, only Kangxi and Amur were happy; the others all had long faces.
Later, they were invited to the banquet.
For some reason, Princess Mengguqing found out about this, picked up a riding whip and lashed Ya Ruo, and had a big fight with Prince Amur.
When she knelt before Emperor Kangxi, Princess Mengguqing remained neither humble nor arrogant, her back ramrod straight, and asked to marry one of Kangxi's princes.
Everyone present was stunned.
What kind of bizarre turn of events is this?
The fourteenth prince's mind couldn't process it.
他勉强捋了捋思绪，简而言之，就是这个孟古青喜欢阿穆尔，阿穆尔喜欢孟古青的妹妹，要娶她，孟古青生气了，把妹妹揍了一顿，现在要嫁给他们大清的皇子。
What, are the princes of their Great Qing Dynasty some kind of lowly thing?
The fourteenth prince looked down on her.
Although Princess Meng Guqing is of noble birth and quite beautiful, she's too impulsive! She's quick to grab the riding whip. Just like her tenth sister-in-law.
Seeing how his tenth brother and sister-in-law used to punch and kick each other every day, Fourteenth Brother trembled in fear.
Wanhe is better.
Emperor Kangxi was in a difficult position. His sons, who were now adults, all had wives, and Meng Guqing's status made it impossible for her to become a concubine.
Besides, whichever prince marries a Mongol princess is essentially withdrawing from the competition for the throne.
Currently, apart from the Crown Prince, the Tenth Prince has the most prestigious status.
Therefore, Emperor Kangxi, out of his paternal love, decided to ensure the position of the Crown Prince by making the Tenth Prince the only one among all the princes to marry a Mongolian woman.
But the other princes were unwilling to marry her! Everyone avoided her like the plague.
Especially the eldest prince.
He wished he could disappear into the ground.
The First Princess's health was deteriorating. If Emperor Kangxi were to betroth Meng Guqing to him as his Second Princess, he would be willing to jump into the river with the First Princess's body in his arms.
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