"Not only Kang'er despises it, I despise it too. I'm putting this out there. If you dare to associate my lineage with your true love, I'll move to Prince Rong's mansion.
It's such a pity to waste your cousin's money. I feel bad for you."
I didn't bother to care what my son was thinking. I waved my hand at the emperor, and the gesture of sending him away was very obvious. "I'm tired, please leave!"
After the emperor left Ciyu Palace, he sent someone to tell the empress to teach the eldest princess a lesson.
The Emperor also took out a bunch of things from his private storehouse and sent them to Prince Fu'an's mansion to calm his cousin. This was part of his sincerity.
His true sincerity was to write an imperial edict, the core meaning of which was, "The future marriage of Yuan Chaochang and Yuan Chaokang will be decided by Prince Fu'an and his wife, and they will report to him when the time comes to grant the marriage."
Anyway, with this imperial decree, the emperor has let go of Yuan Chaochang and Yuan Chaokang's marriage. As long as the candidate is not too outrageous, he will not object.
Zhou Qiongyue, Yuan Chaochang, and Yuan Chaokang were all very happy when they received this imperial edict. With the ladder now in hand, Zhou Qiongyue of course hurried down, as the emperor was the emperor after all.
Zhou Qiongyue said a lot of good things about the emperor to the eunuch who came to announce the imperial edict.
The emperor thought the matter was over, but he never expected that when he finished his morning court the next day, he would receive a report saying, "The Queen Mother has taken her people back to the Royal Residence."
The Emperor's expression was quite varied. He thought to himself, "My mother really knows how to choose the time. If she had chosen a different time, he would definitely have received the news."
For a while, the emperor had no time to go to the royal villa to ask his mother to come back, so he could only send more people to the royal villa to protect the empress dowager.
As for the eldest princess Li Shihuan, she was already frightened when the empress dowager got angry at the emperor.
When she returned to the Queen's palace, she was scolded and confined by the Queen. After being confined, all her fears turned into resentment and resentment.
She hated Yuan Chaokang for being ungrateful, and even more so, she hated her father, the emperor, and her mother, the empress, for not standing up for her. What she hated most was her grandmother's betrayal.
After the eldest princess was released from her confinement, she deliberately inquired about Concubine Zhen's whereabouts. She waited there in advance, and when Concubine Zhen's sedan chair passed by, she began to cry sadly.
Concubine Zhen originally didn't want to pay any attention to her daughter and simply let the sedan chair pass by quickly. After all, she hated this daughter, not to mention that she was raised by the Empress.
As for the stupid things her daughter had done a few days ago, she had also heard a little about it. However, she had never taken her daughter seriously since she was a child, and Xie Zixin was too lazy to make plans for her.
But when Zhenfei saw Li Shihuan's increasingly handsome face, an idea flashed through her mind. After hesitating for a moment, she stopped the sedan chair.
Xie Zixin let the servants around her help her down, then walked to the side of the eldest princess Li Shihuan, pulled out the handkerchief from her sleeve, and handed it to Li Shihuan, "You are useless, why are you crying?"
Although Xie Zixin's tone was stiff and there was not much concern in it, in the eyes of the eldest princess Li Shihuan, this was simply a blessing from heaven.
After all, whenever Li Shihuan, her biological mother, met her in the palace before, she would simply ignore her.
This time, Li Shihuan came to block Xie Zixin, without holding out any hope. She had already made up her mind to take the initiative to harass her.
Li Shihuan didn't expect that Zhenfei would stop and ask her. At this moment, she felt that her mother was not as heartless as the rumors said.
Even Li Shihuan was wondering in her heart whether the so-called truths she had known before were deliberately fabricated by someone to distort the relationship between her and her son.
Li Shihuan, who was overwhelmed by the surprise, looked up at Xie Zixin who was handing her a handkerchief and cried out in grievance, "Mother!"
Xie Zixin didn't want to agree at first, but thinking about her purpose, she could only say "hmm" lightly.
"Mother, I want to marry Yuan Chaokang." When Li Shihuan said this, his eyes were full of determination.
The more Yuan Chaokang disliked her, the more dissatisfied Li Shihuan became. She just liked to force others to do things against their will.
Although Xie Zixin also wanted to send her daughter to Zhou Qiongyue to cause trouble, Xie Zixin felt that the value of letting her daughter marry a powerful man was much more cost-effective than disgusting Zhou Qiongyue.
Xie Zixin said in a mocking tone, "Don't dream. Your aunt and your father grew up together and have a great relationship! If your aunt doesn't agree, your father won't force her."
"Even Mother can't help me? Is Mother unwilling to help me? I won't let you help me in vain. I will listen to you in the future."
Li Shihuan subconsciously didn't believe that Zhenfei had no way out.
In Li Shihuan's impression, although his biological mother was not the queen, his father loved her just as much.
If Zhenfei could speak for him, Li Shihuan felt that she could get what she wanted.
Xie Zixin was dismissive of her daughter's words. Even if Li Shihuan was disobedient, Xie Zixin had plenty of ways to make her behave herself.
"Whether you listen to me or not, I don't care. But if you continue to cling to that crooked tree of Prince Yi, I don't know about other things, but you will definitely be the first princess in the palace to fall out of favor.
From now on, when you see your sisters, you must bow to them or flatter them cautiously.
If you want to live this way, I have no objection."
After Xie Zixin finished speaking, she threw the handkerchief in her hand into Li Shihuan's arms. She asked the senior palace maid beside her to support her and immediately turned around to leave.
Li Shihuan immediately grabbed the hem of Xie Zixin's skirt and said, "Mother, please help me! I beg you."
Xie Zixin looked at the hand that was grabbing her skirt, frowned unhappily, and her expression became even colder, "Let go!"
At this moment, Li Shihuan was just an idiot in Xie Zixin's eyes, and she felt bad. If she had known her daughter was so stupid, she would not have stopped to ask this question. It was a waste of her time.
Although Li Shihuan was stubborn, as a child of the royal family, she was born with the ability to make choices. Li Shihuan knew that after this incident, the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother would definitely not care about her anymore.
As for her father, not to mention that he was so busy in the previous dynasty, there are more and more children in the harem, and the time he has to think about her will become less and less. Now she can only hold on to Concubine Zhen tightly.
Otherwise, who will plan for her in the future? As for Prince Yi, he'd better pray that he doesn't fall into his hands.
Li Shihuan figured it out and immediately changed his words, "Don't be angry, mother. I will listen to you."
Upon hearing this, Xie Zixin immediately turned around and helped Li Shihuan up, showing her a rare smile. "Don't worry, you are my flesh and blood after all. I won't harm you."
Then Li Shihuan followed Xie Zixin away.
Li Shihuan didn't know that her good mother only wanted to use her as a pawn to win over other powers.
However, even if Li Shihuan knew about it, she would not have too much emotional fluctuation. After all, she did not really want to be Zhenfei's obedient daughter.
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