mtlumby2d Chapter 277: Legend of Zhen Huan - Yun Li 23
Chapter 277: Legend of Zhen Huan - Yun Li 23
After Yunli came to the northwest and got in touch with his own people, he settled down in the Junggar tribe.
Today, Dzungar has no leader, but is ruled by envoys from the Qing Dynasty.
After Yunli arrived, he took over the Junggar tribe.
The Dzungar Khanate had just been conquered, and the people under it still had some grudges against the Qing Dynasty.
Before their ancestors entered the Pass, conflicts with the Mongolian tribes had never stopped. The grievances between the two tribes had accumulated for a long time, and it was somewhat difficult to reconcile and establish diplomatic relations between the two tribes.
Yunli still has a long way to go to win the hearts of the people.
Just after settling down in the Junggar tribe, Yunli wrote three letters home, one to the emperor, one to the empress dowager, and one to Su Qingqing.
The letter to the emperor mainly told him about the current situation of Junggar and the author's ideas for the future planning of the Junggar tribe, and asked for his opinions.
In addition to envelopes, the Empress Dowager and Su Qingqing also received some rare local items. The one given to the Empress Dowager was a headband made of local cotton, and the one given to Su Qingqing was a ruby hairpin.
These three family letters first reached the emperor's hands. After reading the contents of the three letters, the emperor saw that the Empress Dowager and Prince Guo's wife had some gifts in addition to envelopes, while he only had a few pieces of writing paper. A feeling of bitterness welled up in his heart, and he wondered if the Seventeenth Prince had never thought of bringing back any gifts for him?
Although the emperor was dissatisfied, he still gave Yunli some suggestions and considerations in his reply, and finally reminded him to pay attention to safety.
The Queen Mother put it on immediately after receiving the headband. Aunt Zhuxi said many good things about Prince Guo when she saw it.
The Queen Mother called a palace maid who had beautiful handwriting and asked her to write down what she had said on a piece of paper.
In addition, she also asked someone to inquire about what was needed in the northwest, intending to bring it along when she replied to Prince Guo.
When Su Qingqing saw the hairpin, she looked at it, and finally dismissed everyone else, opened the hairpin where the ruby was inlaid, and took out the note inside.
The content of the note said that Prince Guo might have to stay in Junggar for a long time. If Su Qingqing couldn't stand life in the capital, she could escape first.
After reading the note, Su Qingqing placed it on the candle flame with an expressionless face and let it burn.
After the note was burned to ashes, Su Qingqing restored the hairpin as if nothing had happened, put it on her head, took out two pieces of letter paper, and wrote a reply to Prince Guo.
One letter was delivered to Prince Guo along with the reply letter from the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, and the other was delivered by their own people.
After finishing writing, Su Qingqing stuffed a amulet into the envelope, then asked someone to send the letter out while she continued copying the Buddhist scriptures.
In addition to copying Buddhist scriptures to pray for Prince Guo, she also wrote for her lover, hoping that he could live a happy life in the afterlife.
As for Prince Guo's suggestion of escaping death, Su Qingqing didn't care. She just had to play her role well and wait for news from Prince Guo before leaving.
I am in the capital and can pass some news to Prince Guo.
More than half a month later, Yunli received the reply from the three people after the messenger rode at full speed.
The first letter Yunli opened was the one from Su Qingqing.
The letter basically told Prince Guo to be careful and to carry the amulet with him.
Prince Guo poured out the amulet from the envelope, looked at it, and touched the thin piece of talisman paper. He found nothing unusual. He thought that the news that Su Qingqing wanted to tell him should come to him through another channel.
Carrying the amulet with him, Prince Guo opened the reply letter from the Emperor and the Empress Dowager.
In addition to answering Prince Guo's questions and giving him advice, the emperor also talked to him about some family matters.
Combined with what was mentioned in the empress dowager's reply, Yunli knew that two of the emperor's new concubines were already pregnant, and tomorrow Yunli would have a nephew or niece.
In addition, the emperor also asked Yunli to remember to come back during the New Year to celebrate the New Year and reunite with his family.
Another letter from Su Qingqing also appeared on Prince Guo's desk that night.
Prince Guo opened the envelope and found that Su Qingqing had several messages to convey to him.
First, he asked her to escape. Su Qingqing said that she would wait for the news from him to be passed back before escaping.
The second is the situation on the emperor's side. Su Qingqing knew that Prince Guo was concerned about the emperor's offspring, so she also mentioned in the letter that the emperor's new concubine was pregnant. Su Qingqing said that the emperor was keeping a close eye on the two of them, and there were not too many dirty things around them, so they would give birth smoothly.
The third was the news from Concubine Shu, who was saying that everything was fine in Jiangnan and that Prince Guo didn't need to worry.
Concubine Shu was in Jiangnan, so it was inconvenient for her to write to Yunli, so she could only pass her news to Yunli through Su Qingqing.
Yunli is now surrounded by the emperor's people. It would be terrible if the envelope written by Concubine Shu to Yunli was discovered one day and Jiang Nan was found through the clues.
Yunli burned the letter written by Su Qingqing, and continued to work late into the night to handle government affairs.
At this time, Yunli fully understood the feelings of his royal brother as his expression became more solemn day by day.
With all these layers of government affairs, who can still be happy and carefree?
When Yunli thought of this, he sighed helplessly. So, being an emperor is not that easy.
In the days that followed, Yunli handled government affairs in the northwest while making preparations, and his health deteriorated day by day.
When the New Year of the following year arrived, Yunli did not return to Beijing, because he could not leave because of the tense war in the northwest.
When the Emperor and the Empress Dowager received Yunli's letter, they felt helpless and worried about his safety. Even when their two pregnant concubines revealed that they were pregnant with boys, it did not make the Emperor happy.
The Queen Mother knew that Yunli could not return, so she specifically asked Zhuxi to go to Anqi Temple to invite Su Qingqing back to the palace to celebrate the New Year with her.
Su Qingqing did not refuse and went into the palace to spend the New Year with the Queen Mother.
Nothing major happened in the court that year, and the days passed one by one.
By summer, things in the northwest gradually stabilized.
At this time, the emperor's secret agents stationed in the northwest reported that Prince Guo was feeling unwell and his life was in danger.
When the emperor heard the news, he was very anxious. When Yunli wrote to him yesterday, the emperor felt that Yunli's handwriting seemed a little unstable. At that time, he suspected that something had happened to Yunli.
Unexpectedly, there was something wrong with Yunli's health.
The secret spy was the emperor's confidant, and the emperor believed what he said.
At the same time, news came from Anqi Temple that Prince Guo's wife was unwell.
The emperor was shocked when he heard this, and immediately sent people to Anqi Temple to treat Prince Guo's wife.
At the same time, he wrote letters to all his spies in the northwest, asking them to do their best to find a way to cure Prince Guo.
The emperor was anxiously waiting for news about Yunli's situation in the capital.
Before we could get any news from Yunli, good news came from Anqi Temple that Prince Guo's wife's condition was under control and she would recover soon.
The emperor had just felt relieved when a few days later, an obituary came from the northwest.
It's about Prince Guo.