When Song Hongshen came back, Su Zhilan had already changed her clothes.
The bright red palace dress with phoenix patterns and phoenix wings woven with dense gold thread looks lifelike.
Seeing that Su Zhilan was ready, Song Hongshen ordered people to prepare a sedan chair and prepare to go to Ganyang Palace to pay his respects.
When the two arrived at Ganyang Palace, several concubines of high rank in the harem had already arrived, except for Concubine Chen, Jiang Ziyan.
Rong Fei, who was sitting in the front, suddenly said, "Sister Chen Fei, you are really something. Why did you keep His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess waiting? On such an important day, why didn't you get up earlier?"
Everyone knew what had happened in the Eastern Palace last night. They also knew that the lights in Guanju Palace were on all night, and that Concubine Chen was so frightened that she called the imperial physician overnight.
Rong Fei spoke softly and in a joking tone, so Emperor Xuande did not scold her.
The Concubine Shu, who was sitting next to Concubine Rong, whispered, "Sister Chen Fei has to serve His Majesty, so she must be tired and rest more."
When several people mentioned the Concubine Chen, they all felt a bit gloating.
Song Hongshen did not wait for Jiang Ziyan's intention, and ordered someone to prepare tea and bring the futon.
Emperor Xuande saw this and said, "Wait, the Concubine Chen hasn't arrived yet."
Song Hongshen said, "He is just an insignificant person."
As he spoke, he had already brought Su Zhilan to Emperor Xuande.
Su Zhilan knelt on the ground, called out "Father", and offered tea to Emperor Xuande.
The Crown Princess offered tea, and even though Emperor Xuande was dissatisfied with Song Hongshen's action, he had to suppress it.
I can't embarrass the Crown Princess in front of so many people.
Emperor Xuande accepted the tea, and the chief eunuch Hu Lu also presented a gift.
It is a complete set of gold-inlaid gemstone headpieces, made of pure gold and inlaid with red and blue sapphires. The workmanship is meticulous and the style is luxurious.
But it doesn't look like it was newly made, it looks like it has been there for quite a while.
Emperor Xuande said, "This was given to your mother by the late Empress Dowager. I have kept it for many years. Now I am handing it to you. Your mother will be happy to know it in the afterlife."
Su Zhilan kowtowed respectfully and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the gift. I will take good care of your mother's belongings."
Afterwards, Song Hongshen took her to pay respects to several concubines. They all gave her generous gifts and spoke to Su Zhilan in a friendly and cordial manner.
When Jiang Ziyan walked in, Song Hongshen was already planning to take Su Zhilan away.
She bowed to Emperor Xuande as she entered the room and said, "I am late, Your Majesty, please forgive me."
Emperor Xuande had no intention of blaming her. Instead, he looked at Jiang Ziyan with heartache and said, "It's not too late. We are all family. It's okay."
Then Jiang Ziyan turned around and walked to Song Hongshen and Su Zhilan.
"What happened last night was due to my failure to discipline my subordinates, which affected the mood of His Highness and the Crown Princess."
"When Ran Dong was in Guanju Palace, I thought she was quite clever. Who would have thought she was such a fool, so disrespectful to the Crown Princess?"
"Don't worry, Your Highness. I have already warned the entire palace. Anyone who does something like this again will suffer the same fate as Ran Dong."
While Jiang Ziyan was trying to make peace with Song Hongshen and Su Zhilan, she was cursing Ran Dong for being stupid in her heart.
She wanted Jiang Shuyun to be favored and also to get closer to the prince.
Ran Dong was so good that he offended people directly.
It didn't matter that she died, but the prince mistakenly believed that it was her who ordered it.
So she bowed her head to Song Hongshen in front of Emperor Xuande and several concubines, just to bring to light what happened last night.
She asked for nothing else but that when the prince ascended the throne, he would give her and her young son a way out.
But if you ask who Song Hongshen hates the most in this world, the first person on the list is Concubine Chen Jiang Ziyan.
Song Hongshen took Su Zhilan's hand and said to Emperor Xuande, "Your son will take his leave."
After saying that, he turned around and left with Su Zhilan.
Not to mention responding to Jiang Ziyan, he didn't even look at her.
Jiang Ziyan stood there, her face flushed red, wishing she could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
It would be better for Song Hongshen to say a few words to slander or question her than to ignore her.
But what is this now?
Rong Fei and the others also looked at Jiang Ziyan in surprise, and once again looked at each other with gloating expression.
Emperor Xuande knew Song Hongshen's inner knot, so he just said, "This child is becoming more and more unruly."
Jiang Ziyan took a deep breath and her complexion finally returned to normal.
She said, "Your Majesty, please don't blame the Crown Prince. It's my fault for not managing my subordinates well."
When Song Hongshen and Su Zhilan returned to the Eastern Palace, a concubine and two ladies-in-waiting were already waiting to pay their respects to Su Zhilan.
Seeing the two of them come in together, their eyes all lit up. It was always good to be able to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
However, with the previous experience of Concubine Zheng as a lesson, no one dared to be presumptuous and performed the ceremony in a proper manner.
Song Hongshen didn't stay long. He said hello to Su Zhilan and went to the study.
Su Zhilan exchanged a few polite words with the concubines and ladies-in-law, and then sent them away.
Afterwards, the palace maids, eunuchs, and managers of the Eastern Palace came forward to pay their respects to the Crown Princess.
The leader was Liu Bao, the eunuch in charge of the Eastern Palace and who served Song Hongshen personally.
Su Zhilan sat in the main seat and first ordered Baiguo to give a generous reward.
She added, "I don't care who you belonged to before or who you worked for."
"Now that you have entered the Eastern Palace, the people you must pledge your allegiance to are me and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
"If I find out that someone is betraying me, don't blame me for being merciless."
Su Zhilan was young, and her tone of voice was calm and composed, without any harsh tone of a superior.
Everyone felt inexplicably relieved. It seemed that the Crown Princess had a good temper.
*
Three days after the wedding, Song Hongshen moved to a side room. However, he would always have meals with Su Zhilan, and the two of them became more and more comfortable with each other.
The three concubines, Liang Di, also came to pay their respects daily. Liang Di Li and Liang Di Shi were relatively sensible and polite. At least on the surface, they were respectful and obedient to Su Zhilan.
Naturally, Su Zhilan didn't make things difficult for them.
Consort Jiang Shuyun, on the other hand, frequently visited Guanju Palace. While paying respects, she would occasionally mention Empress Chen to Su Zhilan. It seemed she was trying to use Empress Chen to overpower Su Zhilan, the Crown Princess.
Su Zhilan pretended not to hear the insinuations she made, as she had been busy taking over the trivial affairs of the Eastern Palace.
Those people thought that she, as the Crown Princess, had a good temper and a soft personality, so they acted more and more unscrupulously.
Someone even leaked who the prince met in the East Palace.
That day, Su Zhilan looked at the list in her hand and said, "That's about it. This many are enough to catch all of them."
No one in the palace expected that half a month after the Crown Princess's wedding, she beat five palace maids and three eunuchs from the Eastern Palace to death with sticks, and sent more than a dozen people back to the Imperial Household Department.
For a moment, the masters of each palace were all panicked.
Each palace appoints people based on their own abilities.
But the Crown Princess's move seemed to be a way of catching them all in one fell swoop.
After finishing these things, Su Zhilan went to Song Hongshen's study.
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