boyutpedia Chapter 512 It’s Time for You to Take Action
Chapter 512 It’s Time for You to Take Action
"Okay, that's good, as long as you weren't scolded," the Queen Mother was relieved, but she still stared at Yinqi, "Promise Mama that you won't have to worry about Korchin in the future. If they are bullied in Mongolia, you can help them, but other than that, no matter what they say, you don't have to care."
Let me be selfish for once. This is the child she raised since childhood. She can't bear to let him bear the responsibility of Khorchin. His surname is Aisin-Gioro, not Borjigit!
"Grandson promised Mama." Yinqi actually wouldn't care, as he was a descendant of the Aixinjue Luo clan. "Mama, don't you hate Khorchin?"
Being forced to marry into the Qing Dynasty was not what she wanted since she was a child. Being unpopular as a queen, being neglected and facing the ridicule of other palaces was also not what she wanted.
After the death of Huang Mafa, she has been a widow ever since. She has never taken care of things that she shouldn't have, and was forced by Ukuma to do everything for Korchin. Now that her past has been exposed, she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life praying for the Qing Dynasty in a temple.
The Queen Mother smiled slowly, looking at the horizontal line where the grassland and the sky met in the distance, "Why do you hate? Xiaowu, we can't choose our birth, nor can we change the responsibilities we have to bear. What we can do is to make ourselves live well in a limited space. And I raised you in my limited space. In this life... I don't blame anyone or anything. I do things willingly and bear the consequences."
The Queen Mother looked at Yinqi and said, "I have no regrets in this life. No matter how many times I come here, it will be the same. Nothing will change."
The queen mother's eyes were deep and her smile was peaceful, as if her occasional sharpness had never existed before. She was less aggressive than before. "Xiaowu, don't resent what we can't change. You were raised by Ai... me, so it is destined that you will never have much power and will never touch that position."
This is something that cannot be changed. It was destined since the time of the previous emperor. Khorchin had long been feared, and the previous emperor had spent many years planning for this.
“I don’t blame anyone for the marriage you were granted. I don’t blame your wife, the emperor, or your mother. You were raised by me because your mother wanted to protect you. Too many princes died young before you. The Prince of Zhi and the Third Prince were sent out of the palace to be saved. The Crown Prince was raised by the Emperor, and the Fourth Prince was raised by Empress Xiaoyi. You are raised by me because your mother wanted to protect you. It’s also because Korchin needed a prince so that both the dynasty and the harem would be stable,” the empress dowager knew her body. If she had been able to hold on for a few more years before, she was afraid that she wouldn’t live long now that she had lost her obsession. But she was willing.
She felt free, as if all the previous constraints had collapsed and there was no cage that trapped her.
"Your wife is both self-deprecating and proud, modest and jealous, but such a person is easy to handle. You can't just indulge her, nor can you just scold and treat her coldly. If you indulge her, she will become more and more demanding and will not tolerate anyone. If you keep treating her coldly, she will be like Liu Jiashi, preferring to die in glory rather than live in disgrace. Forget about the family, the most important thing for such a person is herself." The Queen Mother smiled softly, "You have to find the right balance."
Yinqi knew that the Royal Mother was teaching him, and he thought about it seriously. In fact, he no longer blamed the injustice he encountered. There is no such thing as fairness. He was the only one favored by the Royal Mother, wasn’t he?
Even in front of the Khorchin and even Mongolian forces, he was sometimes more respected than the emperor. Although this was a bit exaggerated, he was also particularly favored among the princes.
But the relationship between him and Fu Jin is not the same, but "Fu Jin is doing this for the sake of the family and will not make the same mistake again."
"Oh, you, you've been raised by me to be too careless. You've seen so many cases, so many broken stories and family affairs, but you still can't see through your wife? It's not just your wife who has been wronged, treated coldly, and plotted against. Look at the Crown Princess. She has been plotted against countless times in the harem. The Crown Prince's previous preference for concubines over wives was too obvious. If the Crown Princess's family background is there, then what about the Third Lady? The Dong E family is not well regarded. Although the Dong E family is much stronger than the Tala family, so what? At that time, the Third Lady would be treated with sarcasm by people for just one Dong E family member. After all, the Third Prince has the most beauties in the harem."
The Queen Mother's voice was filled with disdain. "How did they fight back? I don't know what they were thinking. Do they blame their husbands or not? But I saw that they were competing for favors and suppressing the concubines with bad intentions in the harem. This is what a legitimate wife does," she looked at Yinqi. "What about your wife? How did she do it? She played the opponent's trick? She made herself childless? She was not taking revenge on Liu Jia, she was taking revenge on you! As for his Tara family? She didn't even think about it at that time!"
The Queen Mother sighed heavily, "As for the death of your eldest prince, you really think that everyone is a fool and knows everything they should know. Look at the women of the Tara family now. They know that it is impossible to marry up. They can only marry down!"
The Queen Mother had something else to say, which is that if all the women are scheming against the harem, as time goes by, if those women's families are successful, they will be smoothed out. But if a woman is scheming against her husband, then this woman's family will be wary of all the families, and time can sometimes make it difficult to smooth them out!
"Xiaowu, I'm telling you this today. I'm afraid I won't have the chance to talk to you like this in the future. The only thing I can't let go of now is you," the Queen Mother looked at Yinqi, her eyes full of love and worry, "You, you still can't see through women. Besides, Liu Jia, whether she loves you in her heart, I don't know what she thinks, but in her way you are a tool, a tool for her to have status. As for whether you live or die, it has nothing to do with her. And now the princesses you favor, they are now delusionally stepping on your wife to become the second Liu Jia. When you go back this time, you should take action."
"Another thing about you is that you are too indecisive. You don't know when to make a decision, when to be ruthless, and when to be gentle," the Queen Mother looked at Yinqi in deep thought and could tell at a glance that he was hesitating.
The Queen Mother sighed heavily, "Do you understand now?"
"Well, now that Mama mentioned it, sometimes it can be connected," Yinqi understood what the princesses in the harem did most of the time, "but now most of them are pregnant."
"If you should die of illness, then die of illness, Xiaowu. If you hesitate to make a decision, you will suffer the consequences," the Queen Mother looked at Yinqi seriously, "sometimes what your Royal Father said is not entirely right. He may be able to think about women, but his approach may not be really appropriate."
There are countless princes and princesses who died in the emperor's harem. Nowadays, there are not so many young deaths because the victorious concubines in the past are in charge. They are all old, and although they occasionally act as concubines, they are not allowed to have any stains!