Chapter 94
The concubines in the hall were so scared that they trembled when they heard the words "Emperor". They looked at each other and then looked at the table of mahjong. It was obvious that they had no time to put it away.
The three concubines looked at the leader, Emperor Tong. The imperial concubine regretfully put down the Nanfeng in her hand and sighed lowly: "I almost touched myself."
She said calmly: "What are you still standing there? Let's welcome the emperor with me."
There is no requirement in the harem that concubines cannot play together. If the relationship between concubines is harmonious, it is still worthy of praise for the harem leader. Concubine Tong is not panicked at all.
Before they could finish their appearance, Kangxi had already stepped into the inner hall. The emperor looked serious and glanced at the three concubines present. One imperial concubine glanced at the table full of mahjong and chip signs and asked everyone: "I didn't expect that the few beloved concubines were here. I heard the imperial concubine say "touch" outside. Are you having new fun again? Why not let me see it?"
As he said that, his eyes fell on the mahjong table. He saw that the mahjong carved in the jade was shiny and shiny. It looked expensive. It was painted with various simple patterns, as well as the southeast, northwest and fortune, which had a good meaning.
Concubine Tong responded with a smile: "This is the use of His Highness to filial piety to the elders. If the emperor is interested, I will naturally be willing to take the emperor together."
"What is the round sign on this table?" Kangxi picked up the mahjong and placed it into four piles of chips scattered on the side of the square table.
The other three concubines looked at the winning and losing cards with guilt, and those that were exchanged for silver after the end!
It is one thing to have fun among sisters in the harem, and it is another thing to gather together to gamble. Although the emperor did not stipulate that they could not gamble, the word "gambling" was a disgrace to scholars and would be impeached by the censor. If the emperor wanted to punish them, there were many articles that could be done!
Of course, the round card was given by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. When placed by Concubine Tong, it became a "stealing bell" protection.
Concubine Tong smiled gently and said, "This round card is used to calculate the winners and losers. Sisters are interested in having fun together and have to get a prize. Whoever is left in the end will be able to eat the watermelons rewarded by the emperor. Whoever loses the most will have to embroider the sisters' handkerchiefs."
The watermelons given by the emperor are juicy and sweet, or are they tributes! Kangxi gave the small amount of concubines in the harem, and the rest were closely related to Yinreng and his elders. Unexpectedly, Concubine Tong could generously take out the watermelons as the lottery.
Kangxi looked at Concubine Tong deeply, and didn't know that this was "playing gambling" in his heart? However, the four concubines in front of him were all favored concubines with great prestige in the harem. Concubine Tong had the highest status, and three of them gave birth to healthy princes for him. From the words of the Concubine, we can know that this mahjong was given by the crown prince. Even if Kangxi was angry, he could only hold it in, let alone he was not angry?
On weekdays, women like to be jealous and speak insincerely. In order to show their gentle and considerate side in front of Kangxi, they make themselves as beautiful and grand as possible. Kangxi is not unaware of the surging struggle between them, but as long as it is not too ugly, emperors are usually too lazy to care about women's little thoughts.
But at this moment, the harmonious coexistence between several concubines confused Kangxi. He wanted to see what the charm of this mahjong was, which could make the imperial concubine Tong and the other three concubines unite together.
So Kangxi sat at the mahjong table and ordered the three concubines and the imperial concubine to teach him the rules of mahjong. After roughly grasping the tricks, Kangxi felt even more incredible: That's it?
Just this thing? You can easily memorize the cards and stick them by mastering the rules. What's so fun about this?
The emperor played several mahjong games with the three concubines. The imperial concubine served Kangxi on the side, served him tea and water, and secretly went to see the cards in his hand.
Concubine Tong showed an awkward expression: Ah! The emperor’s card is so smelly.
Kangxi's luck has always been very bad. Even though he has memorized the mahjong cards, he can also guess what cards were hidden in the other three people's hands, but he is bad! He lost one after another in a row. After losing, the hands of the three concubines on the opposite side were almost trembling. Kangxi never gave her the chance to mess up, but he couldn't resist the three concubines being able to feed each other cards.
In the last look, Concubine Hui said in a trembling voice: "Emperor... Emperor, I touched myself."
Kangxi calmly put down the card in his hand and wondered: Is my luck so bad?
"This mahjong is meaningless," the emperor said lightly: "I have brought down the card."
The four women in front of them praised Kangxi's good memory in unison and fully praised the emperor: Yes, yes, what you said is right, this mahjong is meaningless.
The emperor felt their perfunctory and snorted coldly: "Since it's not interesting, I'll take it away. It's a good thing to have a harmonious relationship between the concubines in the harem, but don't do it too much."
The emperor confiscated the pair of jade mahjong in a cruel and ruthless manner, and said, "The prince is filial and should copy Buddhist scriptures to be filial to his elders. How can he give some fun things with strange tricks and tricks? It is one thing to relieve boredom, and gambling is another thing. You all know what I mean, right?"
The concubines in the harem were speechless and could only nod and respond.
Concubine Tong whispered: "It was my concubine who was dereliction of duty, who failed to restrain herself, and took the lead in ruining the trend."
Kangxi: "I won't be the case."
"As for Baocheng, I will order him to copy a few Buddhist scriptures for his elders!"
The emperor wanted to punish the crown prince for this matter, and there was no way for the imperial concubine Tong to plead with her.
Kangxi could not feel the warm welcome from the concubines in the harem, and felt uncomfortable, so he unreasonably accepted the mahjong.
Yinreng suddenly received an order from Kangxi, asking him to copy Buddhist scriptures.
He looked at Liang Jiugong who came to inform the emperor of the orders and asked in a low voice: "Does Khan Ama be in a bad mood, has a bad temper, and is prone to being petty, and is even more childish than usual?"
Liang Jiugong smiled awkwardly, and asked the little ancestor coldly.
Yinreng showed a sudden enlightenment expression and said tolerantly: "Since Khan Ama's little life is coming, I'll bear it. Men are the same as women, and there are always a few days a month."
After the age of seven, Yinreng further understood the physiological structure under systematic popular science education and learned that girls will have small days when they grow up. The small days mean that the girl is a mature girl and can be a mother in the future. Xiaomei told him that in fact, not only girls will have a few days a month, but boys will also have few days of mood and state changes caused by physiological hormone changes.
Now Yinreng looks like a person who has experienced it and tells Liang Jiugong: When Khan Ama comes to live a small life, he will be more tolerant.
[Wait, kid, you're going to be beaten again when you say this! No man will admit that he is here for his uncle!] Liang Jiugong, who always parrots, suddenly felt that his life was in danger!
If you pass on the original words of His Royal Highness to the emperor, his head will fall to the ground.
"Gu has learned new knowledge recently, which is a diet for supplementation, which is suitable for supplementing Khan Ama. He has been working hard all day long, and as a son, Orphan should be filial to Khan Ama."
[Xiaomei thinks that if you do this, you may be beaten by your father.] Liang Jiugong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this: It's great, I like to see the emperor have something good to say.
As long as the emperor is not angry, his life will be preserved.
However, after Concubine Tong's mahjong was taken away by Kangxi, they also had Concubine Hui and Concubine Rong's mahjong. However, the emperor did not agree with them playing mahjong. Although the concubines were itchy and their hands were itchy when they got addicted to mahjong, they had to hold on and continue to return to their usual boring harem life.
After the Fourth Prince lived there, Concubine Tong felt lonely. Now Concubine De lived in Yonghe Palace again. Without the reason of mahjong, the relationship between the concubines was almost faded.
Fortunately, because of the unique friendship made by playing mahjong, the three concubines and the imperial concubine Tong had a tacit understanding, and everyone became low-key. In the harem, except for the low-ranking concubines, only the newly promoted Concubine Yi was in full swing.
On this day, the Empress Dowager stopped him when Kangxi went to pay his respects and asked the emperor to accompany her to touch two games of mahjong. The old lady smiled and said to Kangxi: "The prince gave me this mahjong to relieve my boredom with filial piety. It's really interesting. On weekdays, there is no popularity around the Ai family. The emperor is busy with all kinds of things. Why not just send concubines to accompany Ai's family to relieve my boredom! Look at it, with the Empress Dowager and Su Malagu, it's exactly three missing one."
Kangxi: "…"
"Life in the harem is lonely, and it is difficult to see the emperor. It is better for girls to have fun than to fight each other openly and secretly, right?" the old lady said earnestly: "Xuanye, the prince is very good, don't blame him too much. He is the child left by Hesheli."
"I know, I know," Kangxi said helplessly: "But I don't know that this matter can still be heard in Mama's ears."
The Empress Dowager chuckled and said, "Ai's family is not asking for anything else when they are at this age. They just wish that the harem is stable, and that children and grandchildren are around their knees. Mahjong is just a small matter after all. The fun of playing in a woman's family cannot stop the big things."
OK! The words have been told to the Empress Dowager that he has died, how can Kangxi find it? Could it be that the old lady and the empress dowager have also taken the mahjong together? Unexpectedly, the prince gave away the two old men.
The emperor pinched his nose and accepted it, and returned the confiscated jade mahjong to Emperor Tong.
Kangxi sat in the imperial study room. After thinking about it, he felt that he was being put on by his son. He was angry and wanted to beat Yinreng's little butt again.
Liang Jiugong bowed carefully to the emperor: "Emperor, Your Highness the Crown Prince said he was afraid that you would be tired, so he gave you a tonic soup."
Kangxi said in surprise: "Bubing soup?"
Liang Jiugong said in a warm voice: "The immortal has taught you something again. In addition to studying, your highness began to worry about the emperor's body. He said you worked hard and wanted to make up for you."
Kangxi's brows stretched out, and the corners of his mouth bent slightly.
"Baocheng is a child I raised and has been filial since I was a child."
The emperor's mood improved a lot, so he ordered people to present the tonic soup. These recipes were provided by Yinreng, but they were made by Kangxi's own imperial kitchen. The soup tasted color, fragrance and taste, and was full of red dates, longan and red bean soup!
Liang Jiugong: "Emperor... Emperor, Your Highness said that this soup nourishes the spleen and calms the spirit, and the Imperial Doctor has also confirmed it."
Kangxi raised his eyebrows and said blankly: "Not only that, he also nourishes blood? Do you really think I don't know?"
Liang Jiugong's legs became weak and he knelt down with a thud, and cold sweat broke out.
Kangxi sighed and surprisingly never got angry. Recently, the pressure of the court affairs has accumulated a lot of pressure, and his temper has indeed become stronger and stronger.
The emperor picked up the spoon and drank the sweet red bean soup honestly. Liang Jiugong was so shocked that his chin almost fell to the ground.
Kangxi was in a good mood and gave up the idea of beating the child. He said harmoniously: "Go and tell Baocheng that I have obtained his filial piety and let him study hard, and don't tear the Buddhist scriptures down, and prepare for the next month's lecture."
Yinreng received the news and told Xiaomei with a smile: Gu is right? Khan Ama is really the uncle-in-law, Xiaomei doesn't believe it yet! Look, I'm so anxious about you, isn't Khan Ama not angry?
【…Emperor’s Heart…Under the Sea Needle】
Chapter completed!