Rong Fei is not honored

Chapter 467 The Effect of the Secret Medicine

"Well, I was wrong. You're right. Whether it's out of kinship or love, it doesn't affect Kangxi's favor for Tong Jia."

After a pause, Yuan Xu continued, "If Kangxi's favor for Tong Jia is not superficial, then there is only one other possibility."

Seeing Yuan Xu's feigned inscrutable expression, Ji Nai suppressed his laughter and asked in agreement, "Hmm? What's possible?"

"Kangxi did something secretly."

"Contraceptive incense?" Ji Nai was shocked.

If she hadn't taken precautions in advance and hadn't heard the news from Doctor Wu, she would have been kept in the dark and thought it was the emperor's favor.

The imperial physicians in the Imperial Medical Bureau all obeyed Kangxi's orders, and even if they knew something, they would not say anything.

“It’s not necessarily the contraceptive incense.

There are too many ways that can make a woman's body cold and unfavorable for her fertility. If she is exposed to one or two of them from time to time, even if she adjusts herself privately, it will not be easy to get pregnant as long as the exposure continues.

Besides, Tong Jia was not a very healthy person. She was also a cousin, so the blood relationship was too close, which was not conducive to having children. If Kangxi also deliberately controlled the time of intercourse...

In later generations, couples would calculate the ovulation period when preparing for pregnancy. Even if people in this era didn’t know what the ovulation period was, experienced people would not necessarily be unaware of which days were more likely to result in conception.

Especially the latter, such means are almost unsolvable. Even if Tong Jia finds out, what can she do?

Could she force Kangxi to favor her during the days when she was most fertile?"

Ji Nai wasn't surprised at all by what Yuan Xu said. After all, Kangxi's love for Yinreng in his previous life was obvious to all. He didn't want a second legitimate son to appear, and that was also...

Sometimes, Ji Nai even suspected that Tong Jia herself might not be aware of this, which was why she wanted a child so much later on, and she was almost obsessed with the thought.

Yuan Xu looked at Ji Nai triumphantly, as if she had discovered something truly remarkable. She said:

"It is known that Kangxi does not want another legitimate son after Yinreng, but Tong Jia really wants a child of her own, so what will she do?"

"Find someone of lower status, kill the mother and take the son, or trade them." Just like what Tonggiya and Uya did to Yinzhen.

Yuan Xu said meaningfully:

"Didn't you say that a foster son whose Jade Book hasn't been altered, how can he have the fragrance of his own biological son?

Don't forget, Tong Jia gave birth to a child.

Do you think the appearance of that child meant Kangxi had changed his mind, or was there a flaw in his child-avoidance measures?

It's impossible!

Whether in the past life or this life, Ji Nai would rather believe that this was a decision made privately by Tong Jia, so Tong Jia became ill, and after she recovered, she revealed that she was three months pregnant.

No matter how cruel Kangxi was, he would not directly attack another child whose gender was unknown just for the sake of his son's status.

By the time the imperial physician was able to determine the gender of the child, she was his cousin after all. Even if he was angry, could he really send the mother and daughter to death?

"Although Tong Jia is weak, she shouldn't be sick often, right? At least that was the case in the early days of her entering the palace." Otherwise, how could a sick person have the energy to raise Yinzhen.

Ji Nai answered Yuan Xu's question and said, "Tong Jia's health deteriorated after she gave birth to a child."

As for his previous weakness, it was just a means to win favor.

"Tell me, is there a possibility that Wu Ya has a secret medicine for conceiving a child, and used this medicine to make a deal with Tong Jia?

Compared to an adopted son whose imperial certificate has not been changed, the secret medicine that allows one to successfully give birth to a child is naturally more valuable.

If it really has such miraculous effects, then exchanging the latter for a noble position would not be a big deal.”

Ji Nai murmured, "Back then, there were rumors that the position of noble lady of the Uya clan was proposed by the Tonggiya clan."

At that time, she thought that this was just Tong Jia's way of trying to save her status. After all, the jealous Tong Jia's palace maids "climbed into her bed", which naturally made her, as her master, lose face.

But if in the end even a palace maid beside her could be conferred the title of noble lady, surpassing all the lower-ranking concubines, others would only think that the Emperor really favored Tong Jia.

If the so-called "secret medicine for having children" really exists, then Uya's position as a noble lady would make sense.

Although the doubts that had plagued him for many years were suddenly resolved, Ji Nai did not feel relieved. Instead, he felt more stressed.

The water in this palace is deeper than she thought!

How could someone like Tong Jia easily believe a palace maid who wanted to advance her career? Wasn't she afraid that she was being cheated or that the secret recipe had other side effects?

The safest way is naturally to witness the effect of the secret medicine with one's own eyes - Yinzhen.

Tong Jia was not so generous as to push Kangxi to others again and again. Whether it was because of her physical inconvenience or because she wanted to adopt a child of a palace maid, neither purpose could make Tong Jia become "virtuous".

Therefore, only a few times, or even just one time, of receiving the love of the gods allowed Uya to successfully become pregnant, which made Tonggiya believe more in the miraculous effect of the secret medicine for having children.

After the child was born, she brought the product of the secret medicine to her side so that she could observe it better, which made Tong Jia feel completely relieved.

But what was the result? Tong Jia's daughter died at one month old, and Tong Jia's health was ruined.

As for Yinzhen, is he completely fine?

None of Kangxi's sons was not good at martial arts. Although Yinzhi preferred the literary style, he was also good at riding and shooting. Only Yinzhen left the funny point of "Emperor Shizong's four and a half strengths" to future generations.

What is the concept of four and a half forces? You should know that the heaviest bow commonly used by the Qing army was eighteen forces, but Emperor Qianlong's youngest daughter and Princess Xiao could both pull bows of ten forces.

(In many novels, the third prince Yinzhi is good at literature but not at martial arts, while the eldest prince is good at martial arts but has no brains. These are actually prejudices.

In fact, Yinzhi was outstanding among all the princes in literature, calligraphy, riding and archery.

And the fact that Yinzhen was able to serve as the crown prince for so many years could not have been solely due to Mingzhu.

If Wu Ya hadn't tampered with the secret medicine, she, Ma Jiajinai, would have eaten her own... Yuan Xu's brain.

"Uya's promotion to Depin was..."

"The eighteenth year of the Kangxi reign."

"In the 18th year of the Kangxi reign... Tong Jia gave birth to a child in the 22nd year of the Kangxi reign, so this incident should have nothing to do with Tong Jia.

After all, if Tong Jia had already given birth to a child by then, she would not only not be happy to see Uya’s advancement, but would even want to eat her.”

Ji Nai closed his eyes and figured out that Uya had been promoted to a noble lady, which was a higher rank than what he was supposed to be. Naturally, things that happened later would not be so complicated.

"In the eighteenth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, an eight-magnitude earthquake struck the capital. In the same year, Uya was promoted to Depin." Ji Nai and Yuan Xu looked at each other and understood what the other meant.