Chapter 316: Sadomasochism (Part 21)
"Ahem! What's so strange about this?"
The troublemaker jumped out again to make his presence felt, "Concubine Dong is not only a favorite concubine, she is also a mother."
For a normal mother, her child is her weak spot and her Achilles' heel.
She can endure humiliation for the sake of her children, or she can become a brave warrior who can kill gods for the sake of her children.
"She thought that if she gave in enough and was obedient enough, she could make her son rich and safe."
"As a result, her efforts were not rewarded accordingly. Her son was sent to Feng Dynasty as a hostage. Less than two months after he left, he had an 'accident'."
"As a mother, how can I not be angry? How can I not become evil?"
Concubine Dong is just weak, she is not stupid.
Moreover, the reason why she had been able to maintain the emperor's favor for more than ten years was not only because the emperor needed a target, but also because she had her own skills.
After all, the thing that the world lacks the least is beautiful women.
The emperor has no shortage of targets.
Even without Concubine Dong, we can still have Concubine Zhang and Concubine Li!
The subsequent plots are all ready-made routines - he is deeply in love with Concubine Dong, but unfortunately Concubine Dong died young and was short-lived. In order to ease the pain of missing her, His Majesty finds a woman who looks and has a similar temperament to Concubine Dong.
As an emperor, he could use people to the extreme, and would not let them go even after they died! However, the target of Concubine Dong was not abandoned, and was set up in the palace for more than ten years.
From this, we can see that Concubine Dong is not as weak and gullible as she appears! In the past, she was a way of survival.
However, it is understandable that she changed her strategy in time when she found that this method could not protect her son.
Gu Qingcheng: ...Oh wow, the little idiot has become smart.
Everyone actually knows the possibility and inevitability of Concubine Dong turning evil.
"I am my father's most beloved son?"
Gu Qingcheng looked at Concubine Dong cautiously, with temptation and hope in her eyes.
Concubine Dong smiled and said, "Of course!"
She is Emperor Qing's true love.
Because he loves her son, he also loves his family. Naturally, her son is also the emperor's most beloved son.
Emperor Qing: ...a beloved son sent from heaven.
Emperor Qing, who was following behind Concubine Dong like a loving husband, approached with a concerned look on his face and heard the conversation between the "mother and son".
Well, although it’s a bit awkward, it’s also the damn “fact”.
He couldn't refute it at all, otherwise he would be slapping himself in the face.
Of course, Emperor Qing did not completely exploit Concubine Dong and her son.
He really likes Concubine Dong, and he really loves the Ninth Prince.
But this kind of feeling is far from as deep as he claims.
Even so, Emperor Qing could not refute Concubine Dong's words.
On the contrary, he had to go down.
Ahem, during this period, Yuanshi discovered that she had begun to cultivate the eldest prince and the second prince, and she had become jealous.
She had already noticed Concubine De and Concubine Xian.
Both of them were noble ladies from aristocratic families in the Qing Dynasty. After entering the palace, they did not seem to be favored.
They could only pick up the leftovers of Concubine Dong.
But their bellies were very good and they gave birth to children for the emperor for twenty years.
There were more than ten princes, and the two of them took up half of them! The oldest prince, the eldest prince and the second prince, were both eighteen years old this year.
The two brothers were less than three months apart in age, and both were mighty young men who were proficient in riding and shooting.
Emperor Qing also values the two brothers very much and has sent them to the six ministries for training.
The Qing Dynasty has not yet appointed a crown prince, but Emperor Qing values the eldest and second princes so much that even the women in the harem have some speculations.
Empress Dowager Yuan and Empress Yuan discussed the matter and decided that the next emperor might not be born from Yuan's womb, but he must be raised by Yuan.
Empress Dowager Yuan repeatedly reminded Empress Yuan, "Don't always think about competing with Concubine Dong for favor! The most important thing now is not who the emperor favors, but the choice of the crown prince!"
"You can't give birth, and Yuan Zhaoyi and the others can't give birth either, so let's adopt a young prince!"
Empress Dowager Yuan was in a very conflicted mood.
On the one hand, Emperor Qing was her son, so of course she loved him dearly and wanted her children and grandchildren to be successful, become wise and enlightened monarchs, and go down in history; on the other hand, she was also a princess of the Yu Dynasty, so she was responsible for the marriage and cooperation between the two dynasties.
She really hopes that the Qing Dynasty will prosper!
She hoped that the Yu Dynasty would be strong, which was true! However, Queen Mother Yuan also knew that the Qing and Yu countries were not only allies, but also enemies.
The world will eventually unite after being divided for a long time, and the Three Kingdoms will eventually be unified.
However, whether it was the unification of the Qing Dynasty or the unification of the Yu Dynasty, it would cause pain to Queen Dowager Yuan.
She could only hope to further deepen the ties between Qing and Yu with her own strength.
And blood ties are the most inseparable relationship in this world.
Unfortunately, the son grew up and had his own ideas, and no longer obeyed his mother.
When facing Empress Yuan, who was also from the Yu Dynasty and was his cousin, Emperor Qing was still able to ignore her on the grounds of being "domineering and extravagant".
He even created a Concubine Dong, and almost turned Empress Yuan into a crazy woman who was only interested in jealousy and envious.
More than ten years have passed, and none of Emperor Qing's more than ten children are from the Yuan family.
How could Empress Dowager Yuan not be anxious? As smart as she was, how could she not see through Emperor Qing's scheme? But, after all, he was her own son.
The key point is that her son has grown up and has become independent, and she can't control him anymore.
At this point in time, Empress Dowager Yuan no longer expected the next emperor to be a daughter of the Yuan family. She only hoped to train another little emperor with her own hands!
Empress Yuan was not the willful girl she was when she first married into the Yu Dynasty.
After twenty years of suffering in the harem, her heart had long since died.
The reason why she still had a problem with Concubine Dong was that she still had a little bit of reluctance and she also wanted to maintain her dignity as the queen.
Yes, Queen Yuan is not really a silly woman who only knows about love.
She is the queen and the rightful master of the harem.
However, people have only heard of the name of Concubine Dong.
This was absolutely a humiliation for Empress Yuan.
She would deliberately use all kinds of reasons to torture Concubine Dong, just to let Concubine Dong and the concubines in the harem know: I am the queen! I am the wife of Emperor Qing! And you, no matter how favored you are, or how able you are to give birth to sons, are just a concubine!
Empress Dowager Yuan: ...What's the point of being angry like this?
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Adopting a little prince and pushing him to the throne of the crown prince is the right thing to do! Empress Dowager Yuan almost pulled her niece and daughter-in-law's ears and broke the truth into pieces.
Empress Yuan was a little numb. "Aunt, I'm not stupid! I know what's more important!"
"Okay, okay! I promise you, I will never cause trouble for the Dong family again!"
"Even if I want to establish my authority, I will look for Concubine De and Concubine Xian!"
When talking about these two people, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in Empress Yuan's eyes.
Since you are not favored, you ask your son to show your affection to you?
how?
Are you showing off that you can give birth to a son?
Even if your son ascends the throne in the future, I am still his legal mother, and I am the empress dowager! Empress Yuan was furious, and she began to shift her targets.
It was not today that I disliked the virtuous concubine for taking her left foot first when she walked, and then I made her kneel in the corridor;
Tomorrow he would think that Concubine De's nails were too long and an eyesore, and then he would ask her to stand in front of him and serve him tea.
Anyway, just like how she treated Concubine Dong in the past, she should treat Concubine De and Concubine Xian the same way now.
Consort De & Consort Xian: …
They are not of humble origins like Concubine Dong. They are all noble ladies from aristocratic families.
Defei's surname was Wei, and her maiden family was the Jingzhao Wei family, a famous aristocratic family in the Qing Dynasty.
The virtuous concubine's surname was Li, and she was the daughter of the Longxi Li family, an old aristocratic family of the Qing Dynasty.
When they are at their parents' home, they are treated like precious gold and jade.
She entered the palace as a concubine, and although she was not favored, she did not suffer any injustice.
Moreover, because their bellies were promising, Emperor Qing, for the sake of his children, valued Concubine Xian and Concubine De.
As a result, after living a comfortable life for half her life and now almost reaching the age of becoming a grandmother, she was treated like a lowly concubine by Empress Yuan!
I can’t tolerate this. I absolutely can’t tolerate this!
But Empress Yuan was not only the empress, she was also the niece of the empress dowager. Behind these women of the Yuan family was the huge Yu Dynasty!
Consort Xian & Consort De: ...
Just bear with it!
They, uh, they probably had to endure having their sons become crown princes and emperors.
As long as the Yu Dynasty is still there, the Yuan family girl can always show off her power in the Qing Dynasty's harem! Concubine Xian and Concubine De really want to cry but have no tears, but for the sake of their son, they can only choose to be a Ninja Turtles.
They can tolerate it, but their sons can't.
Especially the eldest prince and the second prince, they were the oldest and thought they were valued by their father, so they had respect.
They came before Emperor Qing for help.
Emperor Qing: ...I have a headache!
Both Concubine De and Concubine Xian were daughters of aristocratic families, and had powerful families behind them.
Their son is also one of the future heirs that Emperor Qing values.
Whether it's for their families or for his son's sake, he has to protect them.
However, Emperor Qing did not want to provoke Queen Yuan easily.
This woman has been in the harem for twenty years and has gone a little crazy.
In addition, although Emperor Qing was wary of the daughter of the Yuan family, he was still a human being after all, and he had one of the few remaining consciences - the Yuan family was not only the queen, but also his own cousin.
If we ignore Empress Yuan and only look at his biological mother, Empress Dowager Yuan, Emperor Qing cannot be too ruthless.
Both sides are very important! Neither can be offended! Therefore, the situation where only the "true love" Concubine Dong will be hurt will emerge.
It happened that at this time, the Ninth Prince "returned", and Concubine Dong, who was seriously ill, became a little paranoid.
She no longer asked the Ninth Prince to keep a low profile, but instead publicly stated that he was her “most beloved son.”
When Emperor Qing first heard this, he felt a little awkward.
But soon, Emperor Qing realized: Hey, that's right! The reason why Empress Yuan targeted Concubines De and Xian was because he praised the eldest and second princes.
Now, the Ninth Prince has become the most favored son, so as for Empress Yuan, is it just...
After weighing the pros and cons, Emperor Qing suppressed his feelings for Concubine Dong and her son, and said to Concubine Dong and Gu Qingcheng with a smile, "Yes! Dong Lang is my most beloved son."
"It's not an exaggeration to say that he is my 'first son'!"
Gu Qingcheng: ...There’s a sentence MMP that I don’t know whether I should say or not.
Concubine Dong: ...There is a word MMP that I don’t know whether I should say or not!
(End of this chapter)
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