Chapter 17 Princess Ziwei
"I have waited for a lifetime, hated for a lifetime, thought about a lifetime, and complained for a lifetime, but I am still grateful to God for letting me have this person to wait for, hate, think about, and complain about. Otherwise, life would be like a dry well, with no interest in life. Ziwei, can you help me ask him if he still remembers Xia Yuhe by the Daming Lake?"
As soon as Zhang Shan arrived, her hands were held. Her eyes were dry and swollen, and it was obvious that she had been crying for a long time.
She quickly realized what was happening; she was familiar with the lines.
"Mom, I don't want you to leave. Let's go find Dad together."
Zhang Shan threw herself into Xia Yuhe's arms. Xia Yuhe, who originally had a breath left, was knocked to half her breath. However, the power of love is still very great. With half her breath left, Xia Yuhe handed the folding fan, the scroll, and the hesitant words to Zhang Shan.
She didn't die until Zhang Shan remembered it.
Zhang Shan didn't have the heart to tell this poor woman that her lover didn't even think of her. If he still cared about Xia Yuhe, he would have come to Jinan to pick her up long ago.
What's more, he couldn't even recognize Xia Ziwei, who was 80% similar to Xia Yuhe, and even confused a real princess with a fake one.
Although Xiaoyanzi's failure to deny it in time and Concubine Ling's instigation were partly responsible, it cannot be denied that Qianlong did not remember anything about Xia Yuhe at all.
Later, Qianlong was greedy for beauty and fell in love with a brothel girl. The empress and the queen mother would never allow a woman of such status to enter the palace. Qianlong used the excuse that the woman was the reincarnation of Xia Yuhe and insisted on taking her into the palace.
Xia Yuhe, who was originally considered the white moonlight, should have been an image of a loyal, gentle, kind, well-educated and lady from a noble family. However, because of Qianlong's action, her image was completely ruined.
Xia Ziwei could not hold her head up in her husband's family, and she didn't want to enter the palace anymore. If Fu Erkang hadn't followed the Fifth Prince to fight in the south, she wouldn't have wanted to enter the palace.
The topic has gone too far. The original owner's wish was to recognize Qianlong and she didn't want Xiaoyanzi to be involved in the fights among the concubines in the harem. After all, Xiaoyanzi loves freedom the most.
What about Falcon?
Not mentioned.
After all, there are people who entrust their children to their parents, but there is no one who entrusts their husbands to their parents.
Zhang Shan was not in a hurry to go to the capital, but stayed in Jinan and continued to learn the rules.
"Miss, didn't the lady ask you to go find the master? Can you find the master even if you don't go?"
Yinsuo has a silly and cute face. She is not as smart as Jinsuo, but she is also very loyal. She is just a little young, so it is no wonder that the original owner did not bring her to Beijing.
"Don't worry, Dad can run away, but the capital can't."
Her current status is that she is neither a concubine's daughter nor a concubine's daughter, which is really embarrassing.
As a weak woman, it was impossible for her to travel long distances, but it would take several years for her to wait here for Qianlong to come south. The best way was to have someone come to pick her up.
Who will answer it?
After much thought, the best candidate is the queen. Although the queen is very obedient and her mind is not very flexible, only she can do this job well.
As the emperor's wife, with the virtuous Empress Xiaoxian as a comparison, the empress naturally had to be more virtuous than Empress Xiaoxian. She naturally could not sit idly by and watch the emperor's children wandering around.
But whether the child can be recorded in the imperial edict after being taken back is another matter.
For Zhang Shan, the most important thing is to go to the capital and meet the emperor first. Everything else can be put off until later.
Although Empress Ulanara was shocked when she received the news, she still decided to send people to Jinan to investigate. If it was really the emperor's bloodline, it must not be allowed to be out in the open.
Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar year. Although the Emperor does not like the Queen, he still has to give her some face.
"My concubine pays your respects to the Emperor."
"Be flat."
The empress was very serious and the emperor felt tortured every time he summoned her. She would cover herself with the quilt and close her eyes to rest. At this time, she was still thinking about Concubine Ling, who was as eloquent as a flower.
If Concubine Ling was here at this time, she would probably make him happy, massage his shoulders and legs, and then...
Thinking of this, the emperor's heart began to get restless and his body began to stir, but when he realized that the person lying next to him was the old-fashioned queen, his interest suddenly disappeared.
"Your Majesty, how many times have you been to Jinan? I heard that the lotus flowers by Daming Lake are very beautiful, and I have never had the chance to see them."
"Well, by the Daming Lake..." The emperor's thoughts drifted far away. The lotus in his memory was delicate and beautiful, the jade hands pinching the lotus were as white and tender as jade, the girl had a stunning face and a graceful back. But he could not remember who that girl was.
"It was more than ten years ago. Since the Queen wanted to see the lotus flowers, she should have passed through Jinan during her southern tour this year."
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty."
The queen was very surprised to see that the emperor cared about her, and felt very sweet, and she had already put Ziwei's matter behind her.
In May, Emperor Qianlong went from Nanxun to Jinan and visited Daming Lake. Zhang Shan was taken away by the Queen's men, and the folding fan and scroll were sent to Emperor Qianlong's desk.
Qianlong was very surprised. Although he did not remember owning these items, the words on the folding fan and the scroll were indeed his handwriting.
"Queen, this thing..."
"This was given by Miss Xia. I want to ask Your Majesty if he still remembers a girl named Xia Yuhe by Daming Lake?"
"Xia Yuhe?"
The memories of the past gradually came back, the girl in green smiled sweetly, and in the afternoon when the boat was swaying on the lotus leaves, the two of them went boating together and developed feelings for each other.
We had agreed to pick her up and bring her to the capital, but I didn't expect that we would be separated for more than ten years.
"Where is she?"
The Queen asked Rong Mama to bring Zhang Shan in, "The commoner Xia Ziwei pays respects to His Majesty. Long live the Emperor!"
"Raise your head and let me see."
The girl looked up, her face still as stunning as in his "memory".
"...Your name is Xia Ziwei? Who is Xia Yuhe to you?"
Don't get me wrong, if the queen hadn't mentioned it, Qianlong wouldn't have remembered who Xia Yuhe was. Who is Xia Yuhe?
"Xia Yuhe is my mother..."
"Your mother? Are you Yuhe's daughter?"
"Where's your mother?"
"My mother waited, hated, thought about, and complained for a lifetime, but she is still grateful to God for giving her this person to wait for, hate, think about, and complain about. Otherwise, life would be like a dry well, with no interest in life... Before she died, she was still thinking about my father. Your Majesty, do you still remember that it was Xia Yuhe by the Daming Lake nineteen years ago?"
"Yuhe is dead? Yuhe is dead! I am so sorry for Yuhe. Child, your name is Ziwei, right? I am your father. I will take good care of you in Yuhe's place in the future."
"father!"
"Alas, my daughter!"
Zhang Shan endured the goose bumps all over her body and pinched the inside of her arm hard to let out tears.
After the father and daughter recognized each other, while they were still in love, Zhang Shan was named Mingzhu Gege. For the sake of the emperor's reputation, Zhang Shan was registered under the name of the queen, and it was told to the outside world that she was the fifth princess born to the queen, who had been wandering outside and had only been found now.
When Concubine Ling knew that the Queen had gotten a princess for nothing, her gentle and amiable brows furrowed.
But the cry of the Ninth Princess in her arms brought her back to her senses, "The Ninth Princess is hungry, take her down and feed her."
The palace maid held the Ninth Princess in her arms and covered up the red marks on her arms before she dared to leave.
During the southern tour, everyone witnessed the emperor's favor for Princess Mingzhu, and the empress and the twelfth prince also benefited from it, which made Concubine Ling feel a deeper sense of crisis.
Zhang Shan returned to the capital and saw Xiaoyanzi during the parade to worship the ancestral temple. Xiaoyanzi squeezed into the parade and got into a fight with someone for the scattered golden melon seeds.
Xiaoyanzi was beaten seriously, and Fuerkang felt sorry for her and took her back. After Xiaoyanzi recovered from her illness, she ran around the Fu family and fell in love with Yongqi who came to find Fuerkang.
In order to please Yongqi, the Fu family adopted Xiaoyanzi and raised her status, but the Fu family was still a bannerman after all and could not reach the position of Yongqi's legitimate wife.
When Concubine Ling knew about Xiaoyanzi, she did not tell the emperor right away, but let them develop their relationship.
"What? The Queen is pregnant?"
Concubine Ling felt a sharp pain in her stomach and quickly called the imperial physician. The imperial physician said that the baby in her belly was most likely a prince. Her fourteenth prince had just died, and now she was in urgent need of a prince.
Concubine Ling gave birth to the Fifteenth Prince prematurely and was promoted to Imperial Concubine Ling. Fu Erkang and Yong Qi brought Xiao Yanzi to visit the Fifteenth Prince and accidentally dropped him. At this time, Imperial Concubine Ling even wanted to eat him.
The emperor was also very angry when he found out. Yongqi only saved Xiaoyanzi's life. As for Fu Erkang, he was beaten with fifty sticks by the emperor and almost lost his life.
From then on, Master Fu and Master Fu Er were no longer allowed to hold office in the palace.
But with Yongqi's help, Fu Erkang can still sneak into the palace in an attempt to meet Zhang Shan by chance, or at least meet Qing'er by chance if that doesn't work.
The Tibetan chieftain brought Princess Seya to Beijing for marriage. Zhang Shan instigated Princess Seya to bring the Fu brothers back to Tibet. You should know that Tibetan women can have multiple husbands.
Without Falcon's harassment, Zhang Shan felt that the air was much fresher.
A year later, Qianlong granted Zhang Shan a marriage and she married Fu Heng's third son, Fu Kang'an.
Zhang Shan was very happy after marriage. Fu Kang'an never took a concubine in his life. They had a son and a daughter. His children were filial in his later years. He also had a brother who was the emperor to support him, so he never had to suffer any hardship.
Xiaoyanzi and Yongqi eloped to Yunnan and were kidnapped by a Burmese princess. The news did not reach the capital, and the two could not return.