Chapter 167 The Angry Princess and the Rough General 22
Shen Beizhan went to the palace to meet the emperor and requested to return all the titles, official positions and various graces bestowed by the emperor over the years.
At first the emperor pretended to refuse.
But Shen Beizhan was very persistent. He used the excuse of his newborn child, saying that he was worried that excessive favor would harm the child's health and safety, and begged the emperor to revoke these favors.
Everyone knows that it was difficult for Shen Beizhan to have a child, so this excuse is very reasonable.
The emperor had no choice but to comply with Shen Beizhan's wishes, take back everything, praise him for his fatherly love, and even pardoned him for the crime of disobeying the emperor's order and detaining the eunuch.
Sure enough, from then on, the emperor never reprimanded Shen Beizhan in the court again.
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Cha Jiu gave birth to the baby safely. The queen was extremely happy. She sent people to check on her many times and gave her many gifts.
The prince also came several times and was relieved to see that his sister and child were healthy.
"Have you thought of a name for the child?" The prince took one of the children from the old woman's hands, held the child in his arms and teased it, his brows softening.
He and the Crown Princess also had several children, the youngest of whom was five years old.
But children are more fun when they are just born and still full of milk.
As they grow up, they become full of energy and get into all kinds of trouble.
When the prince thought of those people at home, his head ached slightly.
Shen Beizhan chuckled: "Okay, let's call her Shen Hong..."
Cha Jiu said at the same time: "It's not good yet."
Prince: “…”
It seems that there is some conflict between my sister and brother-in-law regarding naming.
Shen Beizhan scratched his rough head and asked tentatively: "How about, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince pick one for me?"
Originally, he was thinking of asking a master to come back and name it.
I didn't expect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to come.
That’s great. I can save some money and keep it for Ayuan and the kids.
Shen Beizhan felt very happy.
The prince didn't know that he had replaced the role of the naming master, and just thought that Shen Beizhan was politely asking for his opinion.
So he generously proposed: "How about calling Shen Qinghe and Shen Yanhai?"
Shen Beizhan stroked his chin and thought: "Not bad, the fortune teller did say that these two children lack water in their five elements. This is a good name."
There were rivers and seas, and the children had enough water to drink.
Cha Jiu understood what the prince meant, looked at him and said, "The rivers are clear and the seas are peaceful, the times are peaceful and the years are prosperous."
The prince nodded and smiled: "Such a prosperous age is what you and I wish for, and what the people wish for."
Shen Beizhan: “…”
Yeah, so that's what it means.
It seems that he is superficial.
The prince sat for a while and then left. He had been very busy with official duties and had a lot of trivial matters to deal with recently, and the second prince was acting very strangely.
Cha Jiu and Shen Beizhan both liked the name given by the prince, so they used it.
My sister's name is Shen Qinghe and my brother's name is Shen Yanhai.
After raising them for a while, the personalities of these two children gradually became clear.
Qinghe is quiet. She never cries or makes a fuss when she is awake. She always likes to look at the person holding her with her round eyes.
Yan Hai is completely different.
Woke up crying.
Crying when hungry.
When no one paid attention to him, he cried out of boredom.
Even if he was well fed, not feeling unwell, and playing happily, as soon as he heard his sister's rare cry, he would immediately pout and cry along with her.
His crying was so loud that it was terrible.
Shen Beizhan held him and patted him to comfort him several times. By the time he put him down, he could hardly hear what others were saying.
"Shen Yanhai." Shen Beizhan held Yanhai's armpits with both hands and lifted him up in front of him, howling like a ghost.
The slightly deaf young father smiled and spoke in a gentle tone, but his words were harsh:
"I am your father and I am tolerating you now. No, you are my father now. Eat well and grow up well. It would be best if you can take more beatings in the future."
A deep hatred between father and son was thus laid.
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A wet nurse was arranged in the mansion, but Cha Jiu still occasionally fed the baby herself.
Qinghe had a small appetite and fell asleep peacefully while eating.
Yan Hai has a very big appetite. He gets addicted to the food and keeps pouting his little mouth. He can never eat enough.
Shen Beizhan sat aside and watched, feeling both envious and jealous.
He leaned forward and said, "Can I..."
Cha Jiu: “No.”
Shen Dagou turned his face away with a wronged look.
Cha Jiu closed his eyes to rest, but as he did so, he felt something was wrong.
There is more than one little mouth begging for food.
She opened her eyes, looked down, gritted her teeth and said, "Shen Beizhan!"
Shen Beizhan took away the last drop of sweetness and stood up as if nothing had happened.
Cha Jiu poked his head and said, "You are shameless for snatching food from a child."
Shen Beizhan took her jade-like fingers into his palm and then held her in his arms.
"I don't eat for free." He said this, and glanced at Yan Hai, whose cheeks were moving, "Madam, I will exchange it with intelligence."
Cha Jiu glanced at him unhappily.
Shen Beizhan continued, "Didn't we investigate the secrets of Prince Gong and his wife before? Now we have a clue. Prince Gong did not die to protect the emperor. On the contrary, he planned the assassination of the emperor."
Cha Jiu was surprised.
Shen Beizhan: "Although the emperor and Prince Gong had a dispute over Lin, they soon reconciled after Prince Gong got married. Later, when the emperor ascended the throne, he often summoned the couple to the palace to accompany him. On the surface, he was drinking or talking with Prince Gong, but in fact he was drugging him and then forcing Lin secretly."
"Lin was unwilling to be humiliated and wanted to protect her innocence by dying. But the emperor used Prince Gong and her mother's family as leverage. In such a helpless situation, Lin actually endured torture for more than ten years."
"It was Prince Gong who found out about this. He was a man of strong character. Under the grief and humiliation, he turned all his brotherly love into hatred and planned the assassination. Unfortunately, it failed. In the end, the emperor killed him personally and announced to the outside world that Prince Gong died while protecting the emperor."
"The Emperor gave Lin a choice. One was to fake her own death and enter the palace to become his concubine, where she would be pampered and honored, and her mother's family would be promoted. The other was to continue to disobey the Emperor's orders and endure his revenge on the Lin family and the rest of the Gongwang Mansion."
Cha Jiu said slowly: "She chose the second one."
Shen Beizhan: "The emperor even built a secret room behind the Yangxin Palace, intending to use it to imprison Lin, but unfortunately he committed suicide before he could capture her."
Cha Jiu couldn't help but say, "He's really crazy."
No wonder the Queen has always been lukewarm and wary of the Emperor.
Who can sleep peacefully with such a stubborn and crazy person beside you?
Cha Jiu suddenly grabbed Shen Beizhan's arm, as if she had discovered something: "Maybe Chu Mengwan is really my father's bloodline, and she knows it herself."
Shen Beizhan: "How do you say that?"
Cha Jiu: "She has had an inexplicable hostility towards me since she was a child. Whatever I want, she will take it away; whatever I have, she will ask my father for the same. Her attitude towards my father is very intimate, not as reserved as that of ordinary monarchs and ministers, as if she is determined to rely on someone in her heart."
Shen Beizhan frowned: "If she knew that I was the emperor's bloodline and that he had cruelly persecuted her mother, but she did not regard him as an enemy, but instead acted as if nothing had happened and even complacently enjoyed this favor, it would be too terrible."
Such a person must be cruel and vindictive.
Who knows when it will cause a huge storm in the Song Mansion.
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Song Mansion.
Chen Mengwan was immersed in grief for many days and developed a chronic illness.
The doctor came over and shook his head, saying that I might not be able to get pregnant in the future.
Chen Mengwan was so devastated that she almost collapsed.
However, she still relied on her strong willpower to pull herself out of the grief and began to think about how to gain a foothold in the Song Mansion in the future without children.
Song Heng naturally loved her, but his annoying mother was not easy to get along with.
Chen Mengwan first took off the bracelet on her hand and handed it to the doctor, asking him to keep it secret.
Then she began to think about how to win Yu Niang's heart.
She could see that Old Lady Song treated Yu Niang like a precious jewel. If she became close to Yu Niang and she asked her to be her mother, Old Lady Song would not be able to object.
Thinking of this, Chen Mengwan threw the tiger-head shoes in her hand into the cabinet and turned around to draw a kite pattern for Yu Niang.
The child was so frightened last time that he didn't dare come to visit her.
When she had made the beautiful kite, she would go over and coax the child, and the child would be able to get close to her as before.
Chen Mengwan thought so.
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