His bones seemed to be soft, crawling to the side, unable to sit up at all. Seeing this, some people around were gloating. Even if he was given a name that was full of high hopes, how could they see his body? He was not healthy at all. It was still unknown whether he could live to adulthood safely.
People in the palace are strange like that. If the Eighth Prince is not doing well and is not favored by the Emperor, the people in the palace are naturally relieved and at the same time feel some pity for him. But if the Eighth Prince becomes a threat in their eyes, they hope that the Eighth Prince will be worse off.
Consort Liang stayed close to Consort Hui, not drawing any attention. However, she clenched her hand slightly when she heard the name. She was the daughter of a disgraced official and was demoted to the Xin Zhe Ku (a lowly palace maid). In fact, she was not born into a bad family. Her father was also an official and she had been literate when she was young. If her father had not made a mistake and she had been implicated, she would not have ended up in the Xin Zhe Ku.
Moreover, she is usually very low-key and has always been invisible in the Imperial Laundry Department. This is usually to avoid her face causing her a lot of trouble. She has been living peacefully for so many years, watching with longing as she hopes that she can leave the palace if she receives a general amnesty or turns 25.
However, she caught the emperor's eye again. In fact, when Emperor Kangxi disliked her, Consort Liang was also unwilling!
Moreover, their relationship was the result of Emperor Kangxi's drunkenness. She was just a weak woman with completely unequal power. Under such circumstances, she had no way to contend with the emperor and was nothing more than a plaything.
But hearing such a name still terrified her. She knew it had a special meaning, but she never wanted her son to be in the limelight. She just hoped that the Eighth Prince could grow up safely and peacefully...
No one knows what Liang is thinking, and she wouldn't have the courage to say it.
Because Jingrou usually spends a lot of time with Xiao Jiu, she understands children like this very well and naturally realized that his behavior was unhealthy.
Even though they're several months apart, his sitting posture and liveliness are nowhere near as good as Xiao Jiu's. You know, for such young children, a difference of a few months should be quite noticeable.
At least he can't compare to Xiao Jiu's health. You can tell whether a child is healthy or not just by how energetic they are. So even though Consort Yi is usually exhausted by her brat, she is still happy to see her son so lively.
Even those in Yikun Palace, despite enduring the Ninth Prince's incessant nagging, still hoped he would be healthy so they could finally breathe a sigh of relief!
Moreover, Consort Yi has always been very generous, bestowing a lot of rewards, especially since the birth of the Ninth Prince, she has already given him rewards several times!
So they truly had mixed feelings of love and hate towards the Ninth Prince, but of course, they loved him more!
They were naturally happy to receive more silver, so they no longer cared about the troublesome Ninth Prince!
Jingrou looked at the little baby sitting on the blanket. His skin was very white, but it lacked the rosy glow that babies of this age have. Jingrou had never connected her historical self with her current self. Perhaps it was because she was still young and couldn't imagine that she might be the tragic Eighth Prince's wife in history.
Moreover, she received so much love in this era that she simply didn't have time to think about what her husband in history should have been like, let alone this little girl who was so much younger than her!
How could you possibly put yourself in that situation?
She's not a pedophile, not to mention she's just a little child herself! Even if she had the slightest thought about such things now, her grandmother would absolutely not allow it!
However, Jingrou soon had little time to think about the Eighth Prince, because her little cousin had started to misbehave and learn other actions, including but not limited to frowning and getting angry if someone had to help him up when he wanted to sit up, clenching his round fists together, and then helplessly pounding the ground (Jingrou just took it as his impotent rage).
However, if you get too close to him, he will push you away with force, at which point he will show a very bad temper. But in fact, Jingrou knows that her little cousin is very opinionated, and sometimes he really can't be fooled.
It has to be said that this little baby, who looks so delicate and fragile, is actually quite strong!
Especially when facing such a small child, few people are on guard, and it's easy to accidentally get pushed on the bottom. His wet nurse was once pushed down like that.
At the same time, the atmosphere in the study began to become tense, especially as the princesses gradually grew up. In fact, several of the princesses were older than Jingrou, including the eldest, Minghui and Mingxuan.
The youngest in the entire study was Jingrou, followed by Mingyue. Wenying was a little older. The two of them were the youngest, but Mingyue was able to enter the study because, firstly, the Emperor wanted to have more people in the study, and secondly, at that time, Consort De was still quite favored. Although she was not of high rank and might not have had much influence, she could still whisper in the Emperor's ear and get her daughter in!
However, as the eldest prince was about to be assigned as a concubine, the older princesses among them were also facing pressure to marry into political alliances.
Moreover, princes might have servants around them as early as 13 or 14 years old, and they would receive a formal title around 15 or 16 years old. If the requirements for a consort were stricter, the marriage might be postponed even further, but it would generally be around that age.
However, princesses were a little different. Generally, marriage arrangements were made when princesses were around 13 years old. This was probably a very early age, but girls tend to mature a little earlier. When Jingrou first learned about this age, she was very surprised, but later she found that it was quite common in ancient times.
If there are those who dote on their daughters, they may wait until they are 14 or 15 years old before they marry them off. However, it is not uncommon for daughters to be betrothed as young as 10.
Especially during events like the Mulan Autumn Hunt, the Mongol princes would have the opportunity to see the princesses. Emperor Kangxi would also likely have a general idea of which young men in Mongolia were worth developing and who he could marry into.
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