Chapter 78: The Qing Dynasty's Comprehensive Jade World

  The emperor's ceremony for worshiping heaven was naturally magnificent to the extreme. Listening to the occasional "Long live the Emperor, long live the Emperor, ten thousand years of life, Princess Qi, thousands and thousands of years" from below, Ya Ge played with her teacup and revealed a mocking smile.

  Can an adopted daughter also be called Qian Sui?

  Qianlong didn't put his empress dowager and imperial concubines in his eyes, let alone the princes and princesses of noble blood in the palace, as well as the royal uncles. In the past, Kangxi's eldest son Yinre was only privately called "Taishang Huang" by Emperor Yongzheng... apart from Crown Prince Yinzhen, who dared to be addressed as "Taishang Huang"?

  While sitting next to him, Xia Ziwai, dressed as a Manchu lady, was tightly pursing her lips and forcing herself to look at the little swallow wearing a noble dress in the carriage of the imperial concubine grade car outside the building, who was excitedly waving at the kneeling crowd outside the carriage.

  Those cheeks painted with bright red rouge, and a head full of pearls and jade...

  Little Swallow, as the daughter of Xia Yuhe, became a princess and not only did she not observe mourning for her mother, but also constantly slandered and smeared her!

  The royal procession slowly disappeared into the distance, and the onlookers below also gradually dispersed.

  Yaqi took away the tea cup that Xia Ziwei was holding tightly in her hand and said lightly: "You've finished reading, what do you think?"

  This summer, Ziwei is indeed a talented person. In just over ten days, she has already possessed the elegance of a lady, and her character has been tempered by the strict teachings of the two ayis. Every day, Yage lets Su Peisheng tell her about the news in the palace related to Huanzhu Gege, letting her barely get through the difficult learning process.

  It's well-known that the royal etiquette is so complicated that even princesses and noble ladies have to start learning from a young age, but Xia Ziyu seems to have mastered it in no time. Of course, this is just superficial, not worth delving into deeply, but at least her sincere attitude has made Yage very satisfied.

  At least better than that useless Rouran, who only knows how to shout "I don't want to be a princess", "I'd rather die" and is a shame to the royal family. But Qianlong dotes on her excessively.

  But why was that person arranged to live in Xiangfang Pavilion? Although it is part of the Qianlong Garden, Ronghua Palace, but there is a place where the palace listens to plays and watches plays! So, in Qianlong's eyes, this little swallow is actually his playful object, not on the stage? On the surface, she was given a separate palace, but in fact, she didn't even get close to the edge of the West Three Halls where Princess Gegr should live.

  Xia Ziwei's face turned increasingly ugly as she heard news related to Huanzhu Gege, and now she regretted trusting Little Swallow in the first place.

  "Uncle Ba, how much longer must I endure?" She glared at Yage, her small, delicate face full of anger.

  "As a member of the royal family, what you learn first is to endure. Yage glanced at her sideways, "You can't even bear it for just over ten days? Don't you think about your sisters who were married off to Mongolia and had to endure much more than you?"

  It was him who had endured eighty years in this world before finally waiting until now?

  “……”

  Xia Ziwei knew that Ya Ge said was all correct, but she really couldn't bear it anymore. Now Xiao Yanzi is gradually squandering Qianlong's guilt for waiting for Xia Yuhe for 19 years, if this continues, even when the truth comes to light, how much feelings will Qianlong still have for her?

  She herself can be said to be a stain on the royal family. At that time, whether Qianlong was willing to recognize her or not was still an unknown quantity!

  "Ziwei, those two ayis should have made it clear to you, do you still want to acknowledge the emperor as your father with Xia Yuhe's daughter's identity?" Yage suddenly said, making Xia Ziwei look at her in surprise.

  "You should know, although the Emperor adopted Zhen Zhen as his goddaughter, in reality, everyone with some status in the capital knows that she is actually the Emperor's illegitimate daughter. If it were to be exposed now that the Emperor had mistakenly acknowledged the wrong daughter and that the real one was someone else, how would others view the imperial family?" Of course, this scandal would definitely be exposed by Ya Ge, but for now, he could only say this to Xia Ziwei.

  After Xia Ziwei had a preliminary understanding of the rules of the imperial palace, she let Yage arrange for Jin Suo to be sent away. This lady who was always loyal to her and wholeheartedly served as her maid, Ziwei wanted her to be happy. Jin Suo was more like a sister than a servant to her, if she were to return to her original identity, she would necessarily be with the Mongolian relatives. She didn't want Jin Suo to follow her to the grasslands and suffer hardships, among the many princesses of the Qing dynasty who could live happily and long lives, there were really too few.

  Sent off Jin Suo, Ya Ge's branch task goal has solved another one. Looking at the still long list of names in the dark, Ya Ge just hopes to quickly resolve Xia Ziwei, after all she is the main character! Originally he wanted to persuade her to leave, but the system clearly does not allow him to take a shortcut, requiring that Xia Ziwei must become a princess of the royal family!

  Xiao Yanzi immediately revealed the truth about Xia Ziwie's identity to Qianlong, and Xia Ziwie's identity could not become a princess! She was just the illegitimate daughter of Qianlong and a Han woman. Although there were Han women in the harem during both Kangxi's later years and Qianlong's current reign, the emperor still couldn't easily abolish the rule that Manchu and Han people cannot intermarry.

  At least the Han women in the harem were also registered under the name of the Han army flag, but there were no pure Han people.

  But for Xia Ziwei to become a princess of the Aixinjueluo royal family, she must change her identity. However, it's not easy to get this girl to agree to change her identity. Xia Yuhe's brainwashing education of Xia Ziwei requires long-term training to transform, but Yage doesn't have much time to entangle with her now, so he can only try a different approach.

  Even if Qianlong was just an emperor who couldn't even get it up in Ya Ge's eyes, Xia Ziwei still had a deep affection for him. He was the father she had thought about for eighteen years and didn't want anything bad to happen to him. When he acknowledged Little Swallow, there were already rumors circulating in the capital about Qianlong's illicit affairs with beautiful women from Jiangnan. Although they were eventually suppressed on the surface, many people still secretly mocked Qianlong behind his back.

  If it gets out again that the Emperor has acknowledged his daughter...

  "Uncle Ba, I think it's better for me to leave after all." Xia Ziyu's eyes were filled with tears. "I don't want to cause trouble for the Emperor, he has already acknowledged Little Swallow, which means he still has feelings for my mother, I should be content with that."

  What a sentimental and kind-hearted little girl, just because he said so, she gave up recognizing her father. All the efforts to learn etiquette and hatred for Xiaoyanzi were abandoned. But thinking again, this little girl really took Qianlong as her father, so she would consider so much for him.

  No matter how you look at it, Xia Ziwei is much better than Xiao Yanzhi and Wu A'ge Yongqi.

  "If you leave like this, won't all your mother's considerations be in vain?" Yage sighed and stroked her head before continuing, "You think your mother really wants you to acknowledge your father? Your mother is more concerned about you. Ziwei, with the Xia family's reputation, can you still find a good match in Jinan?"

  "Is it... Eighth Uncle?" Ziwei's eyes widened, wasn't her mother always thinking of the Emperor, wanting to know if he still had feelings for her, that's why she let her daughter come and acknowledge him as her father?

  "Girls' families usually start looking for a match when they are twelve or thirteen years old, and by the time they reach adulthood, they have to get married. Ziwei, when you were in Jinan, there must have been people coming to propose marriage, who were they?"

  Xia Ziwei lowered her head, thinking of the conversation she had secretly overheard between Xia Yuhe and the old woman beside her. From the time she was thirteen, there were indeed many people who came to propose marriage, but either they wanted to take her as a concubine or marry her off to those widowed men who had lost their first wives. And so she dragged on day after day until Xia Yuhe passed away.

  "Xia Yuhe is gone, your last reliance is also gone. So she wants you to go to the capital to find the emperor, and tell the emperor about her 19 years of devoted love, so that the emperor will take care of you and find a good husband for you. Having an emperor as a father, there are always some people who value the benefits behind you and marry you."

  "...Eighth Uncle, you mean that Mother actually has grievances against the Emperor?" Xia Ziyu's voice was low and mysterious, she had always had such suspicions but didn't dare to think about it.

  "Your mother was a clever woman, leaving the emperor at the Xia family back then. In fact, she should have been helpless too." Summer Rain Lotus's father, who was a scholar, wanted to rely on his daughter to gain fame and fortune. As his daughter, how could she possibly object? "'You should be like a rock, I should be like a reed. The reeds are as flexible as silk, the rocks do not change.' A woman who can say such words to the emperor, how could she not know that she might be discarded by him? If it weren't for you, this daughter of hers... perhaps she wouldn't want to have any more contact with the emperor."

  He slowly finished expressing his thoughts about Xia Yuhe with a gentle song, his eyes half-closed.

  "Xia Yuhe is gone, your last reliance is also gone. So she wants you to go to the capital to find the emperor, and tell the emperor about her 19 years of devoted love, so that the emperor will take care of you and find a good husband for you. Having an emperor as a father, there are always some people who value the benefits behind you and marry you."

  "...Eighth Uncle, you mean that Mother actually has grievances against the Emperor?" Xia Ziyu's voice was low and mysterious, she had always had such suspicions but didn't dare to think about it.

  "Your mother was a wise woman, she left the emperor at the Xia family back then, actually she should also be helpless." Summer Rain He's father, who was a scholar, wanted to rely on his daughter to gain fame and fortune. As her daughter, how could she possibly object? "'You should be like a rock, I should be like a reed. The reeds are as flexible as silk, the rocks do not change.' A woman who can say such words to the emperor, how could she not know that she might be discarded by him? If it weren't for you, this daughter of hers, she probably... wouldn't want to have any more contact with the emperor."

  He slowly finished expressing his thoughts about Xia Yuhe with a gentle song, his eyes half-closed.