Chapter 166 Resentment
In front of the palace gate, Shen Changze looked at Yu Zheng getting on the carriage, and suddenly remembered the time when Yu Zheng sent Jiang Shu back to Jing'an Marquis Mansion.
At that time, Shen Changze felt that it was a bit strange that Yu Zheng personally helped Jiang Shu get off the carriage, and he also had a private talk with him for Jiang Shu. Today, I know that they actually have a long history, and it's ridiculous that he has been kept in the dark.
At the beginning, he had interrogated Jiang Shu, and because of this, he had a rift with Jiang Shu. Now it seems that they probably have had dealings for a long time.
No wonder Jiang Shu was determined to divorce, no wonder she was able to persuade the princess!
All of this was because of Yu Zheng!
Shen Changze was unwilling to accept it, and rushed to the slowly starting carriage and stopped it.
"Call!" Zhuiyun hurriedly stopped the carriage and asked in surprise, "What does Marquis Jing'an mean?"
"I have a few words to ask the prince." Shen Changze was holding back a fire in his chest, and his eyes were full of rage.
Zhuiyun asked Yu Zheng for permission and opened the door.
Yu Zheng was sitting in the car wearing court uniform, looking down at Shen Changze who was blocking the road, his dark eyes slightly twisted: "What does Marquis Jing'an want to ask?"
Shen Changze's chest rose and fell: "Has the prince always had secret dealings with Jiang Shu?"
"Nothing." Yu Zheng knew what he was thinking, and said in a deep voice: "I have never had any contact with Jiang Shu before, and she doesn't know my identity. You and her have nothing to do with Li, and it's because you don't know how to cherish her."
"You don't have to doubt her. She never betrayed you when she was the wife of Marquis Jing'an. If you don't believe it, you can go and check it yourself."
"But one thing I would like to remind you is that she is now my fiancée. If you slander and humiliate her, don't blame me for being merciless."
Yu Zheng's dark eyes were cold and stern, with unquestionable intimidation and oppression.
Shen Changze's heart trembled, and he felt panic and more embarrassed.
After he finished speaking, Zhuiyun closed the door and said coldly: "Please make way, Marquis Jing'an."
Shen Changze heard this and stepped aside with a sullen face.
The carriage slowly drove away, and Shen Changze stood there for a long time without moving.
The bright sun shone into the towering palace walls. Yu Cheng walked along the lonely palace road and slowly arrived at Yongning Palace.
"Your Highness." The palace maid greeted him respectfully.
Yu Cheng stepped into the palace, and the palace maid just helped the queen out of the inner room.
"Mother." Yu Cheng bowed and greeted.
The queen responded and asked Yu Cheng to sit down and talk.
The empress, who was nearly fifty years old, wore a crimson palace dress and a phoenix hairpin on her head, which represented her status. She was graceful and elegant, but also solemn and dignified. Although she had tried her best to maintain her appearance, there were still traces of time on her face.
"Is there anything new today?" The empress asked calmly.
Yu Cheng told her about the emperor's marriage arrangement for Yu Zheng. The
empress was very surprised after hearing this: "Prince Jing is going to marry a merchant's daughter as his princess? Or a divorced one?"
He was devoted to Buddhism a few days ago, but today he suddenly wants to marry a concubine, and the one he marries is a useless second-married woman.
Yu Zheng's behavior is really incomprehensible.
What is even more puzzling is that the emperor and Concubine Yu Gui actually indulged him and let him do whatever he wants.
The empress narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly, with a lot of doubts in her heart.
Yu Cheng said: "I can't see it either, but the emperor has issued an edict, and everyone in the court knows about it. This matter should not change. Moreover, the Ministry of Rites and the Qintianjian are already preparing for the wedding."
The queen nodded: "No matter what kind of conspiracy they have, this is a good thing for us after all." What
the queen is most worried about in recent years is that Yu Zheng will marry a powerful noblewoman as his concubine. That would be like adding wings to a tiger and even more difficult to deal with.
Hearing the queen's words, Yu Cheng was silent for a moment, frowned and said: "I think he doesn't want to compete with me for anything, mother, don't worry so much."
Ever since Yu Cheng could remember, the queen often told him repeatedly that he must guard against Yu Zheng, surpass Yu Zheng, and win over Yu Zheng, otherwise his position as the crown prince would be taken away by Yu Zheng in the future.
He has been working hard and being cautious for so many years, but he has never seen Yu Zheng compete with him for anything.
Gradually, Yu Cheng began to question the Queen's words.
"If he doesn't fight, your father will help him fight! How can you let your guard down!" The Queen's tone suddenly became heavier, angry at him for not fighting.
"Can't you see how your father treated us and them over the years?"
"It is said that the emperor is ruthless, but your father and Concubine Yu are like ordinary couples, sleeping together and doting on them, mother and son."
"Look at my Yongning Palace again, how many times has your father come? How many words has he said to me?"
As a woman, the most intolerable humiliation for the empress is that the emperor has never touched her since she gave birth to Yu Cheng, leaving her a widow from her twenties to the present.
But this extremely private and embarrassing thing, she can't tell anyone, she can only grit her teeth and hide it in her heart, hiding in the quilt and crying alone in the dead of night.
She hates the emperor, and hates Concubine Yu for monopolizing the emperor even more.
One day, she will make them pay for the humiliation and grievances she has suffered over the years!
Yu Cheng understood the bitterness in the queen's heart, but other people could not influence the affairs between husband and wife, so he could only try to comfort her.
However, as soon as Yu Cheng opened his mouth, the queen directed the spearhead at him again.
"You have been kind and humble since childhood, and you have been outstanding in everything. You are better than Yu Zheng in every way, but your father never cared about you, and he was stingy even with a word of praise or a smile." "
The emperor is indeed ruthless, and he used his ruthlessness on us mother and son."
The handkerchief in the queen's hand was deformed, and her phoenix eyes revealed a strong anger and resentment.
Yu Cheng looked at his handsome face solemnly, and his mood was heavy and complicated.
When he was a child, he cried and made a fuss, and felt sad. He didn't understand why the emperor only hugged Yu Zheng, praised Yu Zheng, and smiled at Yu Zheng, even though they were all his father's children.
Later, as he grew up, he slowly got used to it.
Later, when he became an adult, he had his own subordinates and power, and learned about some old things. He understood everything in shock.
As a man, a father, and a person with the same experience, he gradually understood the emperor.
Although the Cao family had no intention of rebelling, some things they did were indeed too much.
He was originally attracted to the daughter of the prime minister, and his status was equal to hers. But in order to consolidate their position, the Cao family used both soft and hard tactics to make him marry Cao's cousin as the crown princess, and give birth to the eldest son.
Yu Cheng personally experienced what the emperor went through in the past, and he felt the same way.
"Since mother thinks that the emperor is ruthless, why do you want me to be the emperor?" Yu Cheng asked, staring into the eyes of the queen.
The queen was startled, and said as a matter of course: "You are the crown prince, and you are destined to be the emperor from the day you were born."
"But mother was not born to be the queen, why did you choose this path?" Yu Cheng asked again.
"What do you mean? Do you mean to say that all this is my own fault?" The queen was furious, and she overturned several teacups with a wave of her sleeves.
Her good son was not on her side!
Yu Cheng hurriedly said, "Mother, please calm
down. I have no such intention." "What do you mean?" The Queen was furious and heartbroken.
Yu Cheng said slowly, "I just think that Mother chose to enter the palace. She should have expected such consequences and should not have trapped herself and added to her pain."
Yu Cheng's words not only did not calm the Queen's anger, but made her even angrier.
The mother and son quarreled for a few sentences and left unhappily.