"So what if she has three sons? In this harem, no matter whose son becomes the crown prince and inherits the throne, you will still be the esteemed Empress Dowager, her birth mother." The Empress sighed, "But the prerequisite is that you must be the Empress."
"Your subject knows." The Empress wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with trembling fingertips.
"Instead of wasting so much effort dealing with Consort Shu, you should think about how to make the eldest prince more outstanding than her three sons. After all, the eldest prince has been raised by your side since he was a child, and there is a bond between mother and son." The Empress Dowager patted the Empress's hand comfortingly.
The Empress, who was already in a terrible mood, felt even more frustrated when the Empress Dowager mentioned the eldest prince.
"To be honest, Mother, the eldest prince is getting older and older, and he's becoming more and more distant from me. Of course, I want him to be ambitious, but he..."
The Empress remembered what the eldest prince had said to her that day at the princes' residence.
I felt like I'd been doused with a bucket of cold water from head to toe.
"Although the eldest prince is the emperor's eldest son, he is still young, and there are many things that you, as his mother, need to teach him," the Empress Dowager instructed.
"Mother, how could I not teach him? But he has to be willing to listen." After saying this, the Empress glanced around, her expression somewhat panicked, and deliberately lowered her voice: "Mother, do you think he might know about that matter and that's why he's deliberately going against me?"
The Empress Dowager frowned deeply upon hearing her words. She glanced around and then looked up at Lan Xi beside her.
Lan Xi hurriedly understood and bowed, then left the Empress's palace and closed the door.
When only the Empress Dowager and the Empress remained in the room.
The Empress Dowager said with a solemn expression, "What matter? What is it? Is the Empress delirious from illness?"
The Empress was taken aback by what she was told, and it took her a while to come to her senses: "Mother, you don't know, this Crown Prince is now... If he hadn't known about that matter, I really couldn't understand the reason behind it."
"Alright, I see you really are ill." The Empress Dowager said, standing up from the stool. "Since the Empress is ill, she should rest well. I will go back first. As for the First Prince, I will find some time in the next few days to visit him and have a good talk with him."
"Thank you, Your Majesty. Your son respectfully sees Your Majesty off." The Empress watched the Empress Dowager's departing figure, then lay back down on the bed. Her eyes were vacant, staring blankly into the distance for a long time.
at the same time.
Qiluan Garden.
"I'm so angry! The Empress has made it so obvious, I really don't understand why the Emperor still favors her so much. It's infuriating!" Fen'er angrily threw the rag in her hand onto the table.
"Alright, calm down." Consort Shu's expression was also unpleasant: "What kind of image will you have if people outside see this?"
"I..." Bin'er's lips trembled with anger: "I was just standing up for Xiao Shunzi. It was really a close call. If that jade ruyi hadn't been from the Empress's palace, Xiao Shunzi would have been imprisoned today."
Consort Shu and Xiao Shunzi exchanged a knowing glance.
"Oh, my dear Aunt Bin'er, I know you're doing this for my own good. I'll go make you some tea right away." Xiao Shunzi playfully patted Bin'er's shoulder twice.
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