Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1266 Zhen Huan Enlarged to 189

Jiang Xinxin is sick!

The scene of almost group death of old concubines left everyone with lingering fears. Now, when they heard the news that Empress Dowager Jiang Xinxin was ill, not to mention the wives of royal family members, even the ladies from outside the royal family all handed in signs to visit her.

Jiang Xinxin welcomed everyone who came, and the first to come were Qingying and Prince Heqin's wife.

Today, Qingying has not completely gotten rid of the so-called "plot killer", but her brain has mostly come back. It's a pity that she can't get rid of the depressed feeling of love and unhappy marriage in her heart. She can't understand the affairs of marriage, so she still seems very out of tune.

But she was serious about serving the sick.

The wife of Prince Heqin has now come to terms with her husband's behavior of trying to smooth things over between her and her mother-in-law. After all, she does not have the same opportunity as Wanyan, who could make the late emperor order her to divorce Prince Xun, and she does not have a family willing to accept her back home.

Jiang Xinxin now looks very haggard. She has lost a lot of weight in just a few days. Her sagging skin and flesh make anyone think badly of her.

Jiang Xinxin drank the medicine with the help of Qingying and Prince Heqin's wife, but she was not in a hurry to lie down. Instead, she talked to them: "I am fine now, but I saw that both of your marriages are not going well, so I wanted to give you some advice. But thinking about my past, I don't know what position to say."

When Qingying heard this, she burst into tears. "No, Empress Dowager, you and the late emperor had a harmonious relationship. It was because of you that the late emperor allowed women to have their own households and abolished the bad custom of foot binding. Have you forgotten all this?"

The wife of Prince He also wanted to say a few nice words, but when she thought of the occasional words her mother-in-law had said in the past, she suddenly became speechless.

Jiang Xinxin looked at Qingying and Prince Heqin's wife who were worried about her, and spoke again: "Men are confident and conceited, especially when the royal women are difficult to divorce. Men always assume that every woman around them loves them. They are a little proud of this, but they have to be willing to accept it. What they enjoy most is the ambiguity between men and women."

"You two are the prince's wives. You can only stay by your husbands' side for the rest of your life. You can't let your husbands find out that you have given up on them, because they won't be able to accept it and will turn around and make things difficult for you."

"I have some money in my hand, so I can at least save you from being strangled by men."

This was like an explanation of the last affairs, which frightened Qingying and Prince Heqin's wife so much that they quickly knelt down to refuse. Jiang Xinxin waved her hand and asked them to stand up. "In this life, I have always been a person who stands in a high position. I don't kneel down very often, but I have seen others kneel down many times. But I always hate to see others kneeling down."

So Qingying and Prince Heqin's wife could only stand up with tears in their eyes and sit in front of Jiang Xinxin's bed.

After the two of them had served the emperor, it was the turn of Qianlong's empress and concubines.

The queen wanted to save face and felt that she had no face to appear in front of Jiang Xinxin, but she was worried about her own and her child's reputation, so she had to come over.

Jiang Xinxin didn't make things difficult for her, but just warned her: "If you don't speak up when others are being persecuted, I'm afraid that others won't be able to speak up for you when you encounter the same situation in the future."

"The late emperor was mean and ungrateful, cold and ruthless, and I look at the present emperor with cold eyes. He is an even more powerful emperor than the late emperor, and will be even more ruthless."

"I am not trying to intimidate you, nor am I trying to alienate you from the emperor. I am just reminding you that you'd better always pay attention to the emperor's attitude towards Kunning Palace. When it is time to retreat, you must retreat without hesitation, but you must not let the emperor see through your cleverness."

"Your son is the eldest son, which is originally a good thing, but if the emperor lives a long life, this will only become a disadvantage. The emperor is proud and conceited. He will not like a crown prince who is submissive to him, and he will not tolerate a crown prince with his own opinions even more."

"So if Yonglian turns 25 and the emperor still doesn't consider appointing a crown prince, I advise you to make a prompt decision and train Yonglian's eldest son, your eldest grandson."

There was a loud buzzing sound in the queen's head. She could only realize that she seemed to have heard something extraordinary, but she couldn't remember the specific content.

Jiang Xinxin was tired after saying so much and didn't care whether the queen listened to her or not. She thought she had done what she could.

The next ones were Princess Chaogui and several other married and unmarried princesses. Jiang Xinxin had nothing to say but just gave them money. She urged Concubine Jinggui to arrange the marriage of Princess Wenshu and Princess Hengti as well, for she was afraid that Emperor Qianlong would not be interested and the marriages of the princesses would change.

Concubine Jinggui was terrified by this. Seeing Jiang Xinxin's increasingly bad spirit, she cried several times with Concubine Ning in private, but she did not dare to go to the Old Summer Palace to find out what had happened.

Jiang Xinxin's illness dragged on and recurred throughout June and into July. One day, Jiang Xinxin suddenly became much better and stood up and insisted on picking lychees. Jianqiu and Jiang Fuhai's hearts gradually sank to the bottom, but they could only put on a smile and accompany Jiang Xinxin to pick lychees.

Jiang Xinxin distributed the lychees and died suddenly in Changchun Garden without waiting for Qianlong to come.

Qianlong had regretted it a long time ago. He shouldn't have been thinking about the fleet and caravan in Jiang Xinxin's hands. Obviously, he was not short of money, and neither was the national treasury. But he didn't know why he wanted to test Jiang Xinxin in that way.

Jiang Xinxin's belongings had been distributed in the past two months, and the wool share originally reserved for Qianlong remained unchanged and was still given to Qianlong. After all, Dapangju wanted her to give this thing to Qianlong in the first place.

But Jiang Xinxin did not give it all to him. Instead, she divided some among the princes and princesses of Dapangju, and gave the rest to Qianlong.

Qianlong showed great grief in front of Jiang Xinxin's coffin, but Jianqiu and Jiang Fuhai did not believe it at all. There was hatred in their eyes when they looked at Qianlong. Despite Qianlong's attempts to keep them, they left the palace directly after Jiang Xinxin's funeral and later lost their trace in Fujian.

After Jiang Xinxin's death, the Imperial Concubine Dowager also fell ill. She confirmed Princess Hengti's marriage while she was sick, and then passed away.

Without waiting for any rumors to spread in the former court or the harem, Qianlong directly dealt with the person he believed to be the culprit, Nianqin, and did not even give Nianqin a decent posthumous reputation, because Nianqin died of a stroke on a young boy's belly.

The queen lived in seclusion from then on.

Jiang Xinxin's advice to her was to wait until Yonglian was 25 years old and then decide on the future based on the situation. However, the empress saw clearly that Qianlong was angry with her, so after staying in the Buddhist temple for three days, she sent a letter to her parents' home, explaining her current situation and her decision to give up Yonglian's ascension to the throne and instead train Yonglian's children.

Suolengzhuo had a longer-term vision than both Fucha and Ulanara. After discussion, they finally agreed with the Queen's decision when Jiang Xinxin's mourning period ended.