Chapter 121 Ending
"Come out?"
Kangxi was standing with his hands behind his back in the corridor of Chengqian Palace. He turned around when he heard the sound of the door opening.
Yuying nodded at Kangxi, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine wants you to come in."
"Okay, I understand. Ah Ying, go and see Yinsi. If you want to go back to Yongshou Palace, go back first. You don't have to wait for me."
Kangxi called over a maid from Chengqian Palace and asked her to take Yuying to where Yinsi was.
Kangxi watched Yuying's back as she walked away before he walked into the hall.
"cousin?"
Hearing the voice, Tong Jia opened her eyes and looked at Kangxi calmly. She was no longer hysterical like in previous days, nor did she act like a little girl as before.
"Your Majesty, after I die, Yinzhen and Yinsi will be raised by Concubine Jin. This is my only request."
"Cousin, you..." Kangxi's throat was dry.
"Your Majesty, can't you even agree to this?"
Kangxi swallowed the question he was about to ask and said, "I promise you."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Tong Jia turned over, as if she didn't want to see Kangxi again.
"I am tired and want to rest. Your Majesty, please go back."
Kangxi was stunned. Did he and Tong Jia have reached the point where they had nothing more to say to each other?
"Then cousin, you should have a good rest. I won't disturb you."
After Kangxi left, Tong Jia's curled up body began to tremble slightly, as if she could no longer control herself.
After Kangxi left the house, he saw that the maid who had brought Yuying to see Yinsi had returned. He said, "Go again for me and tell Concubine Jin that I am going back to the Palace of Heavenly Purity first."
Then he looked at Zishang who had been guarding outside the door and ordered, "Go in and serve the Imperial Concubine well."
"Yes, I obey your command."
…
After returning to the Qianqing Palace, Kangxi locked himself in the palace.
He stood in front of the imperial desk, with a blank imperial edict in front of him. What Tong Jia had said just now was indeed beyond his expectations. He originally thought that Tong Jia would still insist on changing Yinzhen's jade disc, or even the position of empress.
Unexpectedly, she actually took the initiative to find a foster mother for Yinzhen, and did not even mention the position of queen.
But what about Kangxi?
If you take the initiative to ask him for it, he will only think that you are greedy and don't know yourself. But when you completely don't care and let go, he will reflect on whether he is too harsh?
Just as Tong Jia's action meant to him.
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated and quickly wrote an imperial edict and stamped it with the jade seal.
He rolled up the imperial edict and pushed open the door.
He threw the imperial edict to Liang Jiugong, "Go, go to Chengqian Palace and announce the edict."
Liang Jiugong hurriedly caught the imperial edict, fearing that it would fall. "Yes, I will go right away."
Kangxi watched Liang Jiugong lead a group of young eunuchs to Chengqian Palace.
He had previously learned from Yuying's inner voice that Tong Jia would eventually become the queen, and he was still wondering what the reason was that made him agree to make her the queen.
Looking back now, it was out of guilt.
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Imperial Noble Consort Tong Jia became the third empress of Kangxi's reign.
When this imperial edict came out, the whole palace was in an uproar.
Even the people in the Tong Mansion outside the palace, when they had given up the idea of the Tong family giving birth to another queen, unexpectedly there was a ray of hope.
When the imperial edict was brought into Chengqian Palace, Yuying had not left yet.
I heard Qingtao running over in a hurry and saying that the emperor had just made the imperial concubine the queen.
Yuying was originally accompanying Yinsi in reading. This year, Yinsi has also reached the age to go to the study room to study.
Yuying's hand, which was turning the page, was stunned by Qingtao's words.
So, tomorrow will be the day when the Imperial Concubine dies. No, now is the day when Queen Tongjia dies?
Seeing that Yuying had no reaction, Qingtao looked at Yuying cautiously, thinking that she was sad. After all, how the emperor treated Yuying was also seen by these servants.
"Your Highness, please don't be sad. I'm sure the Emperor has a reason for doing this."
Hearing Qingtao's comfort, Yuying didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
But she didn't say she wasn't sad, she just shook her head. She put down the book in her hand, but now she really didn't want to continue.
Yuying saw Yinsi looking at her in confusion, as if asking her why she put down the book.
Yuying smiled at Yinsi.
"Let's go, it's getting late, let's go back to the palace today."
After Liang Jiugong left Chengqian Palace, Zishang rushed to Tong Jia's bed with the imperial edict in her arms. She almost cried with joy, "That's great, Madam. Did you hear that? You are now the queen, the emperor's wife."
Tong Jia hadn't reacted yet. When she heard Zishang's words, her eyes narrowed. She grabbed Zishang's sleeve tightly and murmured, "Did I hear it right? Zishang, hurry up! Tell me, I just heard that I became the queen. Is this true?"
"Your Highness! It is true. Look, the imperial edict is in my arms. I will open it and show it to you."
Tong Jia quickly let go of Zi Chang's sleeves, "Okay, okay, open it quickly."
Zishang opened it carefully. Tong Jia read these few short lines over and over again before letting Zishang close it. She took the imperial edict and placed it beside her pillow.
The Queen is not like the Imperial Concubine.
The queen is seriously ill, and the concubines have to take care of her.
So, early the next morning, all the concubines in the palace came to Chengqian Palace early, and even Yuying came after Qingdai reminded her.
Imperial Concubine Niohuru is negotiating with Zishang.
"I am here to take care of the Empress. Does the Empress have any rules? Miss Zishang, please let me tell the Empress on your behalf."
Zichang looked at the crowd of people in the yard and frowned slightly, "The queen hasn't woken up yet, all the ladies please go back."
Everyone looked at each other, and finally their eyes turned to Concubine Niohuru, and she made the decision.
Concubine Niu Hulu thought for a while and said, "Then we, the concubines, should wait here for the Majesty to wake up. If the Majesty does not need us to take care of her, it will not be too late for us to return to the palace."
Zichang stopped talking and walked into the hall.
Tong Jia woke up from her coma, "What's going on? It's so noisy."
"Your Majesty, are the ladies from other palaces outside clamoring to attend to your illness?" Zichang replied unhappily.
I see.
She was already the queen, but even after a night, Tong Jia was still in a daze. Only when she saw the imperial edict still beside her pillow did she feel at ease.
"Let them all go back. I don't need them to be an eyesore in front of me."
"Yes, madam."
Zishang went out again and conveyed Tong Jia's intention to the concubines, and the crowd dispersed.
After Yinzhen finished school, he came to Chengqian Palace.
Tong Jia asked everyone to leave and locked herself and Yinzhen in the palace. No one knew what the mother and son said to each other in the palace. All we knew was that when they opened the door again, Yinzhen's eye sockets were swollen like walnuts.
People have a premonition before they die.
Tong Jia knew that she might not survive the day, so she just asked someone to go to Yongshou Palace to call Yuying.
In Yongshou Palace, Yuying didn't expect that Tong Jia would actually want to see her one last time. She didn't dare to delay and hurried to Chengqian Palace.
When Yuying arrived, Tong Jia was sleeping, and Yinzhen and Zishang were guarding her.
Seeing Yuying coming, Yinzhen whispered a few words in Tong Jia's ear, and Tong Jia came to her senses.
Her eyes were fixed on Yuying.
It's actually a bit scary.
The pupils of a dying person are very different from those of ordinary people. Being stared at like this, Yuying felt a chill all over her body.
In the 28th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, Empress Tonggiya died.
Her last words before her death were for Yuying.
"Princess Jin, please take good care of Yinzhen for me. I will consider it as a debt I owe you. One day, Yinzhen will repay you on my behalf."
As soon as Tong Jia finished speaking, she died.
Yinzhen and Zishang beside her were crying inconsolably, but Yuying felt as if all this was very far away from her, and she could not even hear Yinzhen and Zishang's crying clearly.
After a long time, she came back to her senses, and as if she was talking to herself or answering Tong Jia's question, "I will."
Two years later, the entire Forbidden City was once again hung with white banners.
Palace of Heavenly Purity.
Liang Jiugong ran into the study in a panic and even fell down because he ran too fast. Just as Kangxi was about to scold him, Liang Jiugong's voice full of grief sounded first.
"Your Majesty! The Queen has passed away!"
Queen? Didn't his queen die a long time ago? What nonsense is Liang Jiugong talking about?
Kangxi frowned and stared at Liang Jiugong without moving for a while. It was not until he saw the imperial seal placed beside the imperial desk that he suddenly remembered that he had made his cousin the queen yesterday.
Kangxi reacted suddenly. He strode to Liang Jiugong and asked, "What did you say?"
"Your Majesty, the Queen, she has passed away!"
Liang Jiugong repeated it again.
Kangxi took a few steps back in disbelief.
This scared Liang Jiugong. He quickly stood up and walked forward, not caring whether it was offensive or not, and helped Kangxi sit down on the dragon throne.
As soon as he sat down, Kangxi said, "I understand. You can leave first."
On this side, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs acted quickly. They arrived at Chengqian Palace soon and set up the mourning hall.
Zishang cried and she and Su Peisheng forcibly pulled Yinzhen away from Tong Jia's body.
Yuying also had to go back to Yongshou Palace to change into mourning clothes before coming back, so it was not convenient for her to stay any longer. What's more, she thought that no one in Chengqian Palace would care about her at this moment.
After this round trip, when Yuying returned to Chengqian Palace again, the mourning hall was already full of concubines kneeling.
They all changed into plain clothes, took off all their jewelry, and only pinned a white flower in their hair.
The wind blew, blowing up the white banners in the hall and the white flowers in the concubines' hair.
Yuying watched from afar, and she was sure that Tong Jia would not be happy to see this scene. After all, when she was alive, she looked down on Kangxi's concubines. Now that she is dead, she is probably even more unwilling to have this group of people in front of her to disturb her sleep.
After all, although some of those kneeling there were sincerely saddened by her death, most of them were pretending.
There was a mixture of truth and falsehood, and everyone was crying.
Tong Jia's glorious life came to an end just like that.
Yuying exhaled, walked towards the crowd, and knelt down in the seat reserved for her along with everyone else.
At this time, she didn't act pretentiously. After all, death is the greatest thing, so it doesn't matter if she kneels down.
What's more, there was not much conflict between her and Tong Jia. Even if there was, it was gone with the death of Tong Jia.
"My queen!"
Qing Tao exclaimed, took out a handkerchief and wiped her face.
Looking at the water stains on Qingtao's handkerchief, it turned out that she had been crying without me noticing at some point.
But she clearly remembered that the last time the Empress Dowager died, she had to twist her thighs to cry out.
Did she really shed tears for Tong Jia's death?
Yuying raised her head.
Perhaps at this moment, she has completely integrated into this era, instead of considering herself as a spectator or a witness of history.
When Kangxi came, he happened to see this scene.
He paused slightly, as if he wanted to come forward and ask.
But he still felt something was wrong, so he did not stop. Instead, he walked straight to the spirit tablet of Tong Jia, lit three incense sticks with his own hands, and mourned in silence for a while in front of Tong Jia's spirit.
After inserting the incense into the incense burner, Kangxi watched the incense slowly burn out before walking towards Yuying.
Although the concubines were kneeling with their heads bowed, they were always paying attention to Kangxi's every move. When they saw Kangxi reaching out his hand to help Yuying up, they were all shocked.
What does the emperor mean by this?
Could it be that the Emperor felt distressed because Concubine Jin had only been kneeling for a short while?
Everyone had different thoughts, and some of them had been favored by Kangxi before, but when they saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel a pang of grief.
Yuying stood up with the help of Kangxi. Feeling the gazes coming from all directions, Yuying hesitated for a moment and tried to break free from Kangxi's hand.
But since everyone was watching, Yuying didn't dare to struggle too much.
But this slight force was nothing in the eyes of Kangxi. Kangxi had been in power for many years and was used to doing whatever he wanted. He didn't care about other people's eyes.
He held Yuying's hand and walked towards the side hall of Chengqian Palace.
Yuying followed him closely.
After the door was closed and everyone was blocked from seeing him, Kangxi let go of Yuying's hand and pressed her down on the couch.
Yuying was forced to sit down and looked up at Kangxi.
Kangxi reached out and stroked Yuying's eyes. Because she had just cried, the corners of Yuying's eyes were still slightly red.
"Why is Aying crying?"
Yuying did not answer Kangxi's question, and seemed puzzled, and asked: "The Queen passed away, aren't you sad, Your Majesty?"
Kangxi was choked by Yuying and was speechless.
Are you sad?
Kangxi asked himself.
He had just heard the news and he hadn't reacted yet.
After he realized what was happening, he wasn't really sad. After all, he had been prepared since the moment he issued the decree, right? That's why he was able to calm down so quickly and rush over from the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
But Kangxi could not answer Yuying truthfully.
He didn't want to be seen as a cold and heartless person in Yuying's eyes.
"I…"
Seeing that Kangxi couldn't answer, Yuying understood.
She didn't want to argue about this issue with Kangxi anymore, so she offered to go out and keep vigil for Tong Jia.
Without even waiting for Kangxi to speak, he stood up and walked out of the hall.
Kangxi looked at Yuying's back. He wanted to say that if Yuying looked sad, she should go back to Yongshou Palace first, as he would take care of everything here.
But seeing Yuying's cold eyes, he didn't say it out loud.
Forget it, let Yuying kneel.
In this way, after the funeral, he could move Yinzhen and Yinsi to Yongshou Palace.
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