Chapter 179 The Male Protagonist's Excellent Mother (Sixty-six)
The Seventh Prince is the saint's beloved son, and the palace closely monitors his every move.
When the seventh prince entered the palace, he would involuntarily mention Zhao Qingyun and everything about the Zhao family in front of the emperor and empress.
The saint doesn't care about the trivial matters of the Zhao family.
However, Han Jiaojiao, the sickly girl, did not suffer any bullying or injustice when she went to the Zhao family. Instead, she lived a very comfortable life, which made the saint very satisfied.
"This Zhao Qingyun is pretty good!"
He took care of everything at home and outside, and did not let his sick wife worry about even things like training servants.
Princess Nanping lived a good life after her marriage, and it was because he, the emperor, had granted her a good marriage.
"If Nanping can give birth to another child, I will be able to live up to the promise made to Princess Yongjia in her grave."
Privately, the Saint said this to the Queen.
What he actually wanted to say was that as long as Nanping could marry and have children like an ordinary woman, the cause and effect between the royal family and the Huo family would have come to the most perfect conclusion.
Soon, the "end" came! Less than half a year after Han Jiaojiao got married, she announced the good news that shocked everyone.
"Pregnant? Han Jiaojiao is actually pregnant?
"How is that possible? Isn't she dying?"
"Who said that? Do I need someone to tell me? She vomits blood all the time."
"You're going to die if you vomit blood? Haha, people have been vomiting blood for years, but they're still sick and alive, right?"
The dignitaries in the capital were talking about it.
Those noble ladies who once despised Han Jiaojiao for being a barren sickly girl could not help but regret it.
If I had known that Han Jiaojiao was able to give birth, I would have asked for her to marry for the sake of my children and grandchildren.
Such a huge dowry, the favor of the Queen Mother and the Saint, and the influence of the Huo family, were all enjoyed by Zhao Qingyun, a mere peasant boy!
However, his own children and grandchildren are still fighting fiercely for the quota of family inheritance.
These noble ladies were just regretful, but the stepmother of Duke Cheng'en was indeed filled with resentment.
She had long regarded Han Jiaojiao as her "lifelong enemy".
In the past few months, the stepmother has been waiting for the "good news" that Han Jiaojiao is seriously ill or even dead.
After waiting for a long time, she only heard that Zhuangyuan Mansion would occasionally invite an imperial physician, but Han Jiaojiao was still living weakly and sickly.
She could also accompany her equally frail mother-in-law, and the two of them would eat, drink, play and stroll around the East and West markets like real mother and daughter.
Sweet stories about Mr. Zhao and Princess Nanping would pop up from time to time in the capital.
What happened? After leaving the court, Mr. Zhao ran around half the city to buy freshly baked rose cakes for his wife and mother.
When Zhao Zhuangyuan was on vacation, he personally sent his wife and mother to the Taoist temple and nunnery on the outskirts of the city to worship Buddha.
What……
Because he had Gu as his mother, Zhao Zhuangyuan's various actions of caring for his wife did not attract any criticism.
He didn't forget his mother after getting married.
Nor did he wrong the bride in order to be filial to her mother.
In Zhao Zhuangyuan's heart, his mother and his wife are probably equally important.
In this era, a man who can do this has already made countless women and mothers-in-law envious.
Good husband, good son!
Filial piety and the relationship between husband and wife are all taken into consideration.
Unlike the son-in-law of the Zheng family next door.
He only cares about his wife but ignores his parents and siblings.
Ji Keji's various "wife-chasing crematoriums" are only envied and yearned for by young girls.
Mothers and older people can only shake their heads when they hear this.
Alas, knowing that Ji Keji married into the Yue family, his father-in-law and wife were both kind to him.
But, but there is no need to be so humble.
Although the bride is praised so highly, she is actually also criticized - she seduces and instigates men.
A woman who cannot support her husband cannot be considered a virtuous wife no matter how outstanding she is.
Everyone was complaining in their hearts, and some of their classmates and colleagues who were jealous of Ji Keji's "good luck" even deliberately bullied Ji Keji in person.
He was full of sarcasm and slander, and he was just short of pointing at Ji Keji's nose and calling him a son-in-law.
Ji Keji: ...What do you know? My wife is my lucky star.
Although he said this in his heart, Ji Keji was not completely indifferent to the strange looks from everyone.
However, he is no longer the willful boy who gets carried away easily.
He learned to endure and to disguise.
For his lofty ambition, he can play the role of a doting wife maniac for his whole life! Zheng Wanjun: ... Never mind, I won't take it seriously. If a man can lie to a woman for a lifetime, it is a kind of "deep love".
No matter what the truth is, on the surface, Zheng Wanjun and Ji Keji are a well-known loving couple.
Compared with their earth-shattering displays of affection and love, Zhao Qingyun and Han Jiaojiao are much more "low-key".
If Han Jiaojiao hadn't been pregnant, the whole capital would probably have forgotten that she had married into the Zhao family.
"How could she be pregnant?"
"Ha! I knew that the little bitch was pretending to be sick, but you guys didn't believe me!"
"Wow, I'm a Duke's wife, but I ended up like this. It's all Han Jiaojiao's fault!"
"Oh my God, you are blind!"
In the Buddhist temple, the stepmother, whose heart had long been twisted by hatred, cried and howled at the Buddha statue.
"No! I can't let that little bitch have her way!"
The stepmother took out the little man again and started to tap it like crazy.
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In the court, the saint took control of the military power, but the problems of the two major relatives continued to bother him.
The Han family is the Empress Dowager’s maiden family. Empress Dowager Han’s father and younger brother are both important officials in the court, and their students and old friends are spread throughout the court.
There is a saying among the people that "Han family owns half of the dynasty", which shows how powerful the Han family is.
The Xiao family, which raised a queen and a prince, is a family of military honors. The Xiao family has an army of 200,000 in the southwest.
On the surface, the Xiao family is not as powerful as the Han family.
But the Xiao family has troops.
A few years ago, when the Huo family got into trouble, Empress Dowager Han used Princess Yongjia to try to get the Han family to seize the Huo family's inheritance.
But Han Chong was too "proud" and ended up ruining a good hand.
The Xiao family took advantage of the situation and sent their second son (Empress Xiao's younger brother) to the northwest.
After some operations, he actually got a big share of the pie.
The great general of the northwest, and the confidant of the saint.
But his deputy general was named Xiao.
The Xiao family has been quietly making plans in the northwest, and over the past thirty years, they have achieved some results.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
There are also some founding fathers and old-line families who have formed a force in the court.
Every day the saint has to face the Han family's civil service group, the Xiao family's two major military threats, and the constraints of the aristocratic families.
"…No rush! Come one by one!"
A sage is determined to be a wise ruler and naturally has his own political ambitions.
His eyes began to wander between the Han family and the Xiao family.
…
"Cousin, are you really okay?"
The Seventh Prince looked at Han Jiaojiao with some awe.
He and Han Jiaojiao are of the same age, but Han Jiaojiao is a few months older than him, making her his older sister.
After Han Jiaojiao returned to Beijing, she was often taken to the palace by Empress Dowager Han for a short stay.
She is the empress dowager's treasure, and the seventh prince is the emperor and empress's sweetheart.
The first meeting between the two favored people was quite "hot".
The Seventh Prince playfully threw several fat, green bugs at Han Jiaojiao, and Han Jiaojiao "screamed" and "cried" just as the Seventh Prince had expected.
However, when Han Jiaojiao was frightened to the point of jumping for air, she accidentally stepped on and killed all the insects that the Seventh Prince had brought!
Seventh Prince: ...Are you sure it wasn't intentional?
Han Jiaojiao: ...Come on, let's hurt each other! Han Jiaojiao fainted, the Seventh Prince was scolded, and was forced by the Queen to apologize to Han Jiaojiao.
The feud was thus formed.
As they grew older, the "grudge" between the two gradually faded away.
Especially after the seventh prince turned fifteen and was named King Kang and moved out of the palace, this pair of "resentful siblings" never continued their childish PK again.
Instead, there is a bit of fake sister-brother relationship.
However, with Xiao Xiaoliu's frightened horse and Zhao Qingyun's move into Prince Kang's Mansion, the relationship between the Seventh Prince and Han Jiaojiao became "real".
At least, the Seventh Prince could treat Han Jiaojiao as a relative rather than an enemy.
"It should be fine!"
"I don't know why, but after marrying my husband, my health seems to have improved."
Han Jiaojiao pretended to be happy and said this.
As the perfect partner, Gu Qingcheng added, "Yes, yes, Jiaojiao used to be sick all the time, but after marrying Dalang, she has been sick less and less."
"Let me tell you, someone from the Han family must have had a conflict with my Jiaojiao, and that's why Jiaojiao was killed!"
If it were a normal lady, she would definitely not say such "brainless" words.
But Madam Gu is not like that.
Not long after she arrived in the capital, her reputation as being timid, cowardly, easily influenced and easily confused spread.
The Seventh Prince often went in and out of the Zhao family and became more and more "acquainted" with Madam Gu.
So, when the Seventh Prince heard Gu Qingcheng's obviously inappropriate words, his forehead just twitched a few times.
"Yes! Mother, what you said makes sense! I also think that the Han family and I are not compatible!"
"Oh, I hope someone has stabbed you."
"...Ah! Stab the villain!"
"Yes, yes, there are such vicious villains in our countryside!"
Han Jiaojiao and Gu Qingcheng were talking to each other, saying things that made the Seventh Prince tremble with fear.
Stabbing a villain? Isn't that just witchcraft?!
This is a big taboo in the capital and in the imperial palace!
How could this confused mother-in-law and daughter-in-law be so outspoken in front of a prince like me? Wait, Han Jiaojiao's last name is Han, isn't her family the Cheng'en Mansion?
The seventh prince's eyes flashed, and he suddenly had an idea.
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Half a month later, a "strange news" came out from the Han family——
Han Chong's second wife was secretly practicing witchcraft.
If the cursed Princess Nanping had not married and had a husband with a compatible horoscope, she might have been killed long ago.
There was an uproar in the capital.
In fact, everyone knows that you can't kill someone just by stabbing them.
But, the two words "witchcraft" are really not allowed to be associated with.
That stepmother, it would have been fine if she had just sought death herself, but she actually dragged the entire Han family into it.
When Queen Mother Han heard the news, she was so angry that she fainted.
Duke Cheng'en even hurriedly had his stepmother kidnapped, and personally took Han Chong to the palace to apologize.
The saint was "purely filial" and stayed by the Empress Dowager's bedside, refusing to visit his biological uncle and cousin.
Duke Cheng En had no choice but to submit a letter of resignation...
PS: The third update will be a little later!
(End of this chapter)
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