Chapter 254 Everything is Fate
The palace servants and eunuchs serving at Ronghua Palace dared not speak.
The Imperial Concubine had been standing there for almost an hour, just staring at that red plum tree...
"Mother, you heard Father's decree, didn't you!" Princess Shoukang shouted at Consort Wu by the window as soon as she stepped into the palace.
The palace servants and eunuchs were so frightened they almost knelt on the ground.
How could Your Highness say such a thing at a time like this!
Everyone knows why the Imperial Concubine is in a bad mood!
Two crown princes were appointed in succession, but neither of them had anything to do with Ronghua Palace.
The only hope for the future, the King of Zhao, is still stuck with the barbarian tribes and won't be coming back. Although the twelfth prince has been enfeoffed as the Prince of Jin, but...
Everyone knows that it's just an extra!
Consort Wu felt even more depressed when she saw Princess Shou Kang enter with a smile on her face.
A year ago, everyone knew that she was highly favored by the emperor, with two princes and a princess under her wing, all of whom were the apple of His Majesty's eye.
Even the King of Zhao could exchange a few blows with the Crown Prince.
His daughter is His Majesty's only princess, a noble princess of the Great Yu...
Now...
Haha, King Zhao went on a personal expedition and won't be coming back; his only daughter isn't his only daughter anymore...
After the youngest son returned from the southwest, he spent his days doing this and that with his seventh brother, General Huangfu, and Xiao Jingjue...
Since returning to the capital, His Majesty has never spent the night in his own palace. I went to the Hall of Diligent Governance ten times, and I only managed to see him once, when Zheng Wanwan was not there...
Favored Concubine...
She was probably the first favored concubine in the Great Yu Dynasty to act like that.
Consort Wu felt utterly exhausted.
All her previous competitive spirit vanished in an instant, and now she doesn't even know how to live her life from now on.
Am I really going to spend the rest of my life in this cold palace?
"What's all the noise about! It's not like you've been made Crown Princess!" Consort Wu rolled her eyes at Princess Shou Kang.
Princess Shou Kang didn't think that Consort Wu was mocking her. She quickened her pace and walked to Consort Wu's side.
"Mother is looking at this red plum tree again! What? Do you want to paint another picture of it? Father seems to be quite busy lately, he probably doesn't have time to appreciate paintings!" Princess Shou Kang said casually.
Consort Wu felt even more pain in her heart.
She glared at Princess Shou Kang fiercely. With that brat here, she had lost all her worries!
Turning around and sitting back down on the chaise lounge, Consort Wu glared at Princess Shou Kang again.
"What are you doing here at this hour! Instead of doing your job properly, what are you doing here!"
Princess Shou Kang smiled and took a sip of the tea brought to her by the palace servant.
“I’ve been there! The winter clothes and food for the children and the elderly at the charity have been delivered and distributed. The children and the elderly all have new winter clothes.”
I'm exhausted. I made two trips to the Imperial Palace just for this batch of clothes. I managed to distribute them to everyone before the Lunar New Year.
call……
The old man from the village near the charity hall said there will be another heavy snowfall in a few days!
Mother, you said it's already cold enough these past two days, and the snow hasn't even melted yet! Now it's going to snow heavily again!
It must be so cold when you go to university! If the kids and the elderly don't have winter clothes, they'll freeze to death!
fortunately……
"Pour me another cup of hot tea!" Princess Shou Kang said, handing the empty teacup to a palace servant.
Consort Wu didn't say a word, she just stared at Princess Shou Kang.
"What's wrong? Mother, am I wrong?" Princess Shou Kang looked at Consort Wu with a puzzled expression.
Consort Wu became even angrier.
It turns out that the pampered princess spends her days doing things that even a seventh-rank official wouldn't want to do.
"Lan Qian, you're supposed to be a princess! You just go and do chores for Ye Yunshu after she says something casually!"
"Are you... really that spineless?" Consort Wu pinched Princess Shou Kang in anger.
Princess Shou Kang frowned slightly.
"Mother, do you mean those things are not worth doing? They are all related to people's livelihood and the suffering of the common people. These are not trivial matters."
"The Crown Princess used to be in charge of the charity!" Princess Shou Kang was also a little dissatisfied.
Consort Wu certainly dared not say that this was a bad thing, but she still felt aggrieved.
Yes! You're capable! Look how capable you are now!
They can now do the jobs that only the Crown Princess could do back then.
"You're so capable, why didn't your father make you the Crown Princess?" Consort Wu said bluntly.
Princess Shou Kang frowned and glanced at Consort Wu, then said without thinking, "That's because you're not the Empress!"
"I wasn't born to the late Empress! Can't you even understand that?"
Consort Wu...
The palace servants and eunuchs of Ronghua Palace didn't dare to breathe loudly; only Princess Shou Kang dared to say such things in front of the Imperial Concubine.
Every time she said these words, the Imperial Concubine would be so angry that she wouldn't be able to eat for several days.
"You brat, you're never satisfied unless you say something that really hits the nail on the head when you come here!" Consort Wu was so angry that she reached out to pinch Princess Shou Kang again.
Fortunately, Princess Shou Kang dodged quickly and was not pinched by Consort Wu.
"Mother, this is not right! I told you a long time ago that you should just focus on being a noble consort and not think about things you shouldn't."
It's all fate; what's meant to be will be!
Do you not know how Father Emperor treated the late Empress?
Look at all the things Father has done for his elder sister and the others.
"Wouldn't it be better for you to be content being a favored imperial concubine in the eyes of others?" Princess Shou Kang said with a smile.
Consort Wu angrily pointed at Princess Shou Kang.
"You...you unfilial daughter!"
"You're telling me, haven't you ever thought about becoming the Crown Princess? Don't you even have that much ambition?" Consort Wu said angrily.
Princess Shou Kang chose a good spot to run and then thought about it carefully.
"Before I knew I had an older sister, I did think about it, since I felt like I wasn't any worse than my third brother!"
But then my older sister appeared, and I suddenly felt that I was really no match for her in anything.
The eldest sister entered the Censorate at the age of fifteen and investigated all the accounts of the Censorate in less than three years.
In three years, he dealt with 26 corrupt officials and helped the Ministry of Revenue and the Imperial Household Department recover over one million taels of silver.
I... definitely can't do it!
However, if the position of Crown Princess were to fall into my lap, I would still do some things.
For example, they could collect handsome men from all over the world to be their male concubines, and send some of the good-looking ones to the princesses in the capital, as well as to the wives whose marriages were only superficial.
Oh, and send ten or eight more to my eldest sister too.
Mother, do you want it? If you do, I'll prioritize yours...
"Don't hit me! I'll leave, okay?"
Watching Princess Shou Kang run off happily, Consort Wu felt that there was even less hope for the future...
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