Concubine Li, standing by, covered her mouth and laughed, "Your Majesty, you're wrong. How could His Majesty not trust you? Aren't you helping the Empress prepare things?"
Concubine Min also laughed and said, "I was also worried about what to prepare for the newlyweds. The other day I saw the Crown Princess's dowry. There were so many wonderful things. I went back and changed the things I had prepared. I opened my private room and looked around before I could barely pick out a set that I liked."
Concubine Min was openly trying to flirt with the Crown Princess and the Marquis Xuanwu's Mansion.
Several concubines all looked over.
The Third Prince's mother, Concubine Shu, looked at the Emperor's expression and was about to say a few good words on behalf of the Crown Princess when she heard a voice from behind.
"The Qin family is very rich. When she was my sister-in-law, she gave me all the good things."
In an instant, all the concubines turned around and looked at the person who spoke.
Good job!
So brave!
Everyone knows that the Crown Princess is a second-married woman. When she and the Crown Prince were discovered in the same room, it displeased His Majesty. Later, His Majesty changed his mind about the Crown Princess because she submitted high-yield grain seeds. But no one dared to mention the fact that the Crown Princess had been married before in front of the Emperor. How brave!
After looking clearly at the person who was speaking, everyone thought to themselves that it was inevitable.
Aren’t Lu Linglong and Lu Cainv from the Marquis of Pingyang’s Mansion?
The emperor's face turned grim: "Get out."
Do I need to ask who should be let out?
Lu Linglong wasn't stupid either. She refused to leave. "Why do you want me to leave? I'm your majesty's concubine now. After all, I'm the Crown Prince and his wife's stepmother. I've even prepared a gift for them. Your majesty can't deprive me of my rights!"
Seeing the emperor's undisguised disgust, Concubine Li turned to Lu Linglong and scolded her, "What are you talking about, Lu Cainu? He's the Crown Prince. Even we can't act like concubines in front of him."
"Besides, you are only an eighth-rank concubine. You are not qualified to participate in today's ceremony. You should leave as soon as possible."
"I have prepared a gift! What's more, the Crown Princess was my former sister-in-law, so why can't I come?" Lu Linglong said righteously, sitting there as still as a mountain.
Concubine Min asked curiously, "I wonder what gift Cai Nu prepared? As far as I know, when Cai Nu entered the palace, she had nothing and her allowance was low. Her family doesn't send much money these days, so what Cai Nu prepared with all her heart must be very special, right?"
Lu Linglong snorted softly, took out the purse she had prepared, and said, "Here, this is it."
Li Zhaoyi was sitting diagonally in front of her. When she turned and saw the purse, she was speechless. She reached out to take it, opened it, and said, "I remember I gave this purse as a reward to your maid. You're not giving it to the Crown Princess, are you? Let me see what goodies are inside."
As Li Zhaoyi spoke, she pulled out a piece of paper. Before she even opened it, she smiled: "Is it a poem or a painting? It can be considered..."
She couldn't say the rest of the words. The densely packed words on the paper were obviously not poetry, let alone a painting.
Concubine Min was sitting next to Concubine Li. She reached out and took it, laughing with joy. "Oh my! Is this the gift that Concubine Cai prepared for the Crown Princess? But why do the things on it look so familiar? Is this the Crown Princess's dowry?"
The emperor was also curious and asked someone to send something over. When he saw the items listed, his face suddenly darkened. Just as he was about to speak, he heard someone outside saying:
"Crown Prince, the Crown Princess has arrived!"
The emperor immediately pressed the button and asked someone to call them in. His son and daughter-in-law were important!
Qin Wan and Xie Qing stood at the door. After looking at each other, they walked in with firm steps.
The emperor looked at the two men, who looked a little pale but in good spirits. He smiled with satisfaction and asked, "How was your rest?"
"You had a good rest." Xie Qing glanced at the queen and saw that she was still smiling without any flaws. He thought to himself, let's see if you can still smile in a while.
The ceremonial officer ordered someone to bring tea: "The bride presents tea!"
Qin Wan and Xie Qing stepped forward and knelt before the emperor, then took the tea and presented it to him: "Father, have some tea."
"Okay, okay, here's your reward!" The emperor took the tea and hurriedly asked for a reward before he even drank it.
Eunuch Zhang brought a tray with a few thin deeds on it. He whispered, "Crown Princess, here are a few farms outside the capital. You can farm them for fun."
Qin Wan's eyes lit up. She was in need of land right now. She thanked him happily, "Thank you, Father."
"Be good." The emperor drank the tea in one gulp, then looked at Xie Qing. After taking his tea, he warned: "Now that you have a family, you can no longer act foolishly. You must support the responsibilities of a small family and act as the head of the family."
The emperor did not give Xie Qing anything, but the title of "big family" was enough to nail Xie Qing's position as crown prince.
Concubine Li and the others looked unhappy. Seeing Xie Qing bow again, they congratulated him one after another: "Congratulations, Your Highness."
Xie Qing ignored them, pulled Qin Wan up, and knelt down in front of the queen again.
Qin Wan offered tea first: "Have some tea, mother."
The Queen wanted to throw the tea in Qin Wan's face, but she had to pretend for the moment, waiting for her comeback. She took the tea and said with a smile, "Be good."
The female official behind her brought up a tray, the contents of which had long been replaced by the emperor. They were still farms, but they were scattered across the Great Zhou, making it convenient for Qin Wan to grow new varieties.
Qin Wan took it with a smile, then stood up and stood aside.
Xie Qing looked into the Queen's eyes, lifted his skirt and knelt. He took the tea, raised it above his head, and said solemnly, "Mother, I thank you for raising me and giving me the best education when I was young."
His eyes were still fixed on the Queen, and he changed the subject, saying, "Your son naturally remembers everything you have done for him since my sixth brother was born. So, today, I will kneel before you once more and call you Mother once more, fulfilling the bond between mother and son."
The Queen raised her lips stiffly: "What you said is true. No matter how you look at it, you and I are blood relatives. It is my duty to be kind to you."
"Mother, please have some tea." Xie Qing didn't want to listen to her and pushed the tea forward a little.
The queen took the tea, took a sip, and had the prepared items brought over. "I know you need everything, so I prepared something else for you. These are the things you used to play with when you were a child. Some of them were prepared by your mother for you, so they can serve as a reminder for you."
A large box was opened, and inside were the clothes that Xie Qing wore as a child, as well as kites and other things he played with as a child.
When Xie Qing saw the kite, he remembered the year when the queen was ill and he was naughty and insisted on having a kite, and she dragged her sick body to make a kite with him.
Xie Qing couldn't help but reach out and pick up the kite: "This is what my mother asked me to make. I haven't forgotten it."
The Queen said with a hint of meaning: "It's good that you haven't forgotten. You are my sister's child, and I treat you as my own son."
Regarding grain seeds and good varieties, the text also has two meanings: one is grain seeds, and the other is good seeds of any crop.
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