The emperor's remorse was met with a wave of his hand, and a large amount of rewards were sent to the Sixth Princess, along with the Ninth Princess.
Faced with the sudden intelligence of the sixth princess, few of the ladies in the harem paid her any attention.
She's just a princess without a biological mother. Even if she's favored, what good will it do? At most, she'll just be unable to participate in any political marriages. It won't affect the future status of their princes.
Indeed, after Huang Taiji returned from his campaigns, several of the concubines in the harem were eager to conceive a prince.
Currently, there are several princesses in the palace. Apart from the princes who died young, only the eldest prince, Hauge, remains, who was abandoned by his birth mother, Consort Ulanara, for being disrespectful. With many princesses, they are no longer precious, but the princes are different. Especially when the news broke that the unfavored Consort Zhuang was pregnant again, all the concubines in the harem began to stir.
Yongfu Palace.
Su Mo'er walked into the hall and respectfully said to Consort Zhuang, "Your Majesty, has Consort Chen come to visit?"
Bumbutai opened her eyes, which had been closed to rest, revealing a glint of shrewdness in them. "It's rare for her to come here; I'm afraid it's because of my pregnancy."
After thinking it over, Bumbutai looked at her slightly bulging belly with a complicated expression.
Su Mo'er stood quietly in place, waiting for the Empress to call her.
Bumbutai closed her eyes again. "Never mind, my sister hasn't come to see me in a long time either, let her in."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Consort Chen walked in. Hailanzhu's face was a little pale. Her delicate and beautiful face, which was naturally like that of a woman from Jiangnan, looked at Bumbutai's slightly bulging belly with a dazed and complicated expression.
"My sister is pregnant? It looks like it's going to be a little prince."
Hailanzhu said with a slightly sour tone.
"Thank you for your kind words, sister." Bumbutai smiled happily, then feigned innocence and said, "Sister, you must be happy that I'm pregnant too."
"Of course." Hailanzhu suppressed a hint of jealousy in her heart and said with a pale face. If her eighth prince were still alive... if only her sister's child were dead too.
"Why is my sister stunned again?"
Bumbutai looked at Hailanzhu innocently and asked.
Hailanzhu looked up at her sister's innocent face, and recalling the dark thoughts in her heart, she felt as if she had been exposed by the sun. Feeling guilty and embarrassed, she left Yongfu Palace.
Su Mo'er watched Consort Chen's departing figure with some confusion, "Why did Consort Chen leave after only chatting for a short while?"
Bumbutai smiled and said meaningfully, "They probably thought it was the moon in the sky, but when they found out it was just a reflection of sewage on the ground, they left feeling guilty."
Su Mo'er nodded thoughtfully.
Because of Consort Zhuang's pregnancy, the bitter aroma of fertility-enhancing medicine filled the palaces once again. Even Consort Chen, Hailanzhu, who was always frail, went to great lengths to brew fertility-enhancing medicine to lure Emperor Taiji to her palace more often.
Huang Taiji, who already adored her, visited her palace many times. If it weren't for the fact that the families of the other concubines in the palace were all ministers in the court, and that the emperor complained to the ministers about not being able to win their favor, Consort Chen would have enjoyed even more exclusive favor.
Even with the ministers' reminders, Huang Taiji still visited few of his other consorts, with Hailanzhu being the most frequent visitor.
Although the concubines were dissatisfied, they had no way to force the emperor, since the emperor's willingness to visit the other concubines was already a concession.
The group dared not offend the Emperor, but they hated Consort Chen, who had won the Emperor's exclusive favor, to the point of being like a thorn in their side.
While quietly resting and preparing for childbirth in Yongfu Palace, Bumbutai couldn't help but sigh: her seemingly aloof and indifferent older sister was actually the most selfish. If the Emperor continued to dote on her, that would be fine, but if the Emperor met another woman he cared about, who knew what crazy things her sister would do.
Bumbutai thought calmly, "But how could that be?"
Hailanzhu was born with the same top-notch beauty as Han Chinese beauties, and she also had the cool and gentle charm of the Jiangnan water towns, which made Huang Taiji completely captivated. What woman could compare to her?
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At that moment, Qingyin, who was weaving a purse for Nan Chu in Yehenara Prefecture, couldn't help but sneeze.
Oh, who is thinking of her?
"Has Your Highness caught a cold? This servant will immediately fetch a shaman to take a look."
When Maya saw Qingyin seriously ill, a look of anxiety appeared on her face.
Qingyin stopped her, "It's nothing, just a sudden tickle in my throat that made me choke. There's no need to call the witch doctor. Maya, go get a glass of warm water."
"yes."
After drinking a sip of warm water, Qingyin's complexion remained normal, and Maya then gave up the idea of calling a witch doctor.
When Nan Chu returned, he saw the purse with a green bamboo pattern woven with black and gold thread that his wife was embroidering. The man pretended not to know and picked up the surprised woman, sitting her on his lap and asking, "Who did you embroider this for, my wife?"
Qingyin glared at him reproachfully: "Why ask me when you already know the answer? Put me down!"
Qingyin struggled a few times in embarrassment and annoyance, trying to get away from the man's legs, which were filled with an overwhelming amount of hormones.
A woman's unintentional movement touched a sensitive spot on a man.
Nan Chu felt a surge of warmth in his heart, his Adam's apple bobbed, and his voice became a little hoarse. He whispered intimately in Qingyin's ear, "Don't move. If you don't want to indulge in your desires with your husband during the day, then please sit quietly with him for a while, okay?"
Qingyin's ears turned red and she fell completely silent, not only because of the man's lewd words, but also because she could feel the danger of the burning sensation under her buttocks.
"You scoundrel," Qingyin whispered.
Nan Chu let out a satisfied laugh, his voice deep and sexy: "Is being intimate with my wife considered lewd?"
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