Chapter 158 Seeking Greater Wealth
After King Xuan stepped out of Chengming Palace, his face turned bad.
The body looks gloomy.
This was the case until the Ningshou Palace of Concubine Chen.
When the palace servants of Ningshou Palace saw him coming, they hurried in to announce, "The prince is here!"
Concubine Chen was sitting upright on the couch, touching her luxurious brocade robe. Upon hearing this, she smiled and said, "How did he know to come to see me today? It's such a coincidence. He came just as you finished making a piece of clothing for him."
The woman next to Concubine Chen blushed with embarrassment.
"Mrs. Dowager..."
"Okay, okay, I won't joke around anymore."
Concubine Chen looked at the palace maid and said, "Quickly let the prince in."
After receiving the summons, King Xuan strode into the hall.
"Why are you alone here? Why didn't Mrs. Chu come?" Seeing only him, Concubine Chen's face darkened. "Did Mrs. Chu ignore my orders?"
King Xuan said indifferently, "Xianxian has entered the palace, but just now when I took her to Chengming Palace, Pei Zhaoyi liked her and kept her in Chengming Palace to talk."
Concubine Chen was so angry that she couldn't vent her anger. She just said, "It's her blessing to have the favor of the imperial concubine. Well, well, it's better not to see her today."
She suppressed the disgust in her eyes, smiled slightly, and pointed to the brocade robe on the table, "This is the dress Yi'er made for you. It's just right that you're here. Go to the side hall and try it on to see if it fits you."
The woman next to him called "Yier" became even more shy and looked at him with a blush on her face.
King Xuan hesitated to move.
Still standing there with a serious expression.
The face of the woman named Yier gradually turned pale.
Concubine Chen's face also turned cold.
"What do you mean?"
King Xuan said coldly, "I have long known your intentions, mother. Now I will tell you straight out: I will never have a wife again in my lifetime. Mother, please don't worry about me anymore."
Others are indifferent, and that's not a polite thing to say.
Yier covered her mouth and ran out.
He must be sad.
Concubine Chen was furious and pointed at King Xuan and said, "I see, you have been bewitched by that woman, that's why you said such things. I am so disappointed in you!"
King Xuan's cold brows revealed an immense chill: "Not only is your majesty disappointed in me, but I am also disappointed in you!"
Concubine Chen was furious.
She looked at her always filial son in disbelief.
"Are you going to disobey your mother for that woman?!"
King Xuan laughed to himself and took something out from his sleeve.
This bracelet was worn on Concubine Chu's wrist a few months ago.
"Don't you know what mother has done?"
Concubine Chen's pupils shrank, she stopped talking and turned away.
King Xuan's eyes were bloodshot, and his tone was heavy with sorrow.
"At the beginning, Mother told me that this bracelet was very valuable. It was a gift from the late Emperor, Empress Li, and she asked me to give it to my beloved woman."
"Mother had calculated that I would not give the bracelet to the princess, but to Xianxian, so I tampered with the bracelet and soaked it in medicine!"
"My son Xianxian and I have been deceived. Because of this thing, it has been difficult for us to have children. We haven't been able to fulfill our wish for many years!"
At the end of his speech, King Xuan threw the bracelet to the ground.
There was a clear sound on the ground.
The jade bracelet was shattered into pieces, with fragments scattered all over the ground.
Concubine Chen's heart trembled, but she still refused to bow her head. "I want you to not get what you want! The prince of the palace can't have a mother who was a palace maid!"
"But mother was also a palace maid before, and gave birth to me. Why can't you tolerate Xianxian now? Why can't you tolerate the child of me and Xianxian?" King Xuan knew that Concubine Chen cared about her background, and never mentioned the fact that Concubine Chen was a palace maid in the past. Today, he was forced so hard that he could no longer bear it.
As expected, Concubine Chen flew into a rage. She overturned the small table and said, "How can the Chu family be compared with me?"
King Xuan sneered and said nothing.
Concubine Chen said coldly, "It was only after I gave birth to you that I realized how difficult it is for someone of low status to give birth to a child of noble blood! If Chu gave birth to a child and made him the Crown Prince, do you know how many people in Prince Xuan's Mansion would laugh at you? How shameless would you be then?"
Isn't this doing something harmful under the guise of doing good for you?
King Xuan smiled tiredly and felt completely disappointed.
"Call it a joke, call it shameful. From now on, Mother, please don't worry about the affairs of Prince Xuan's Mansion."
Hearing him draw a clear line like this, Concubine Chen's eyes widened suddenly: "I am your mother, why can't I be in charge? Are you trying to be disloyal and unfilial?!"
"Yes!" King Xuan said angrily. "I, your son, will be disloyal and unfilial!"
"From now on, except for the New Year, Xianxian and I will not set foot in Ningshou Palace again! Mother, please don't think about letting your son get married!"
"Also, mother, please don't bother planning the affairs of the princes in the palace! If you accidentally anger the emperor, don't blame me for not reminding you!"
After saying this, King Xuan turned around and was about to leave.
"You dare to leave!" Concubine Chen roared with red eyes. She reached out and pulled out the hairpin on her head, pressing it to her throat. "If you dare to take a step out, I will die!"
King Xuan stopped and turned around slowly.
There were tears in Concubine Chen's eyes.
"Back then, the late emperor mistakenly favored me, and within a single night, I became pregnant. When Imperial Concubine Li found out, she handed me a bowl of abortion medicine. If I agreed to abort the child, she would give me countless gold and silver treasures and arrange for me to leave the palace. If I refused, I would be going against her."
"Do you know how favored Concubine Li was at the time? Even Empress Li, the Empress Dowager, had to give her some leeway. Going against her would be a dead end! The other path is my best choice!"
"But for you! For you!"
Having said this, Concubine Chen became more and more excited.
"For you, I spilled the abortion potion, desperately escaped from Concubine Li's palace, and begged Empress Li. I begged her desperately, and only then did I manage to survive."
"I risked my life to give birth to you, and raised you with this life. My prince, is this how you treat me? Do you really want me to die?"
She cried with every word.
King Xuan remained indifferent.
Since he was a child, whenever he did something that displeased his mother, he would hear these words.
Before today, he still felt distressed when Concubine Chen said this.
But now, King Xuan was completely unaware of it.
He laughed sarcastically and said, "Would Mother be willing to die?"
Concubine Chen's face froze.
Yet he also listened to the way of King Xuan,
"Back then, was it because of my love for you that I fought to the death against Concubine Li, or was it because I was plotting for greater wealth and glory?"
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