The Queen Mother sighed deeply. It was precisely because there were too few children in the royal family that she cherished the two that Jiang Yi had just given birth to so much.
"But what can we do? The women in the harem were all carefully selected by me, but they cannot give birth to a son or daughter for the emperor, except Jiang Yi." The empress dowager didn't even have hope for the others.
Concubine Shen whispered, “And my niece.”
"The Empress is about to enter confinement after childbirth. The Emperor can't go a month without touching a woman. Please ask the Emperor to come to my room more often. Perhaps my niece will get some news."
The Queen Mother's first reaction was to question, "It's not like the Emperor hasn't been to your room before."
"But she has never touched my niece." Concubine Shen was still a little ashamed to say such words to the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother, unsure whether to allow this or not, said, "You didn't say that before."
Concubine Shen Xian said with embarrassment, "That's because all the concubines in the palace used to brag about how much my cousin favored them. If people knew that the emperor never favored my niece once when he visited her room, I would be so embarrassed."
"That's why my niece..."
After saying these words, Concubine Shen was ashamed and angry.
"I don't know why the emperor favors so many women but not me. Is I any worse than those rude women?"
"Now that Jiang Yi, that lowly maidservant, has the Emperor's child, my niece wants to give it a try. Even if it means abandoning the dignity and pride of a noble lady, I still want the Emperor to favor me."
If all else failed, she would drug the emperor, because she just wanted a child.
Of course, Concubine Shen Xian did not dare to say this to the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother said, "Please let me think about it."
"You are too embarrassed to say that the emperor has never favored you, so what about others?" The Queen Mother suddenly thought.
Yes, there is nothing wrong with the concubines and the emperor, so the problem lies somewhere.
Or maybe the emperor never touched those women at all.
Thinking of this, the empress dowager's face became gloomy.
"I know everything. I will tell the emperor about it. You just wait quietly in the palace." said the empress dowager.
The empress dowager sent someone to call the emperor.
At this time, Jiang Yi had already woken up. The emperor was talking to Jiang Yi, and he was very reluctant to go over after hearing what he said.
Jiang Yi said, "The Queen Mother must have something important to tell you at this time."
"Nothing is more important than talking to my sister." He was still reluctant. "Sister, kiss me, kiss me and I'll come over."
Jiang Yi glanced at him and said, "Then don't go."
In the end, the emperor came up to Jiang Yi, kissed her, and then left.
However, as soon as he arrived at Rongshou Palace and saw the gloomy look of the empress dowager, the emperor's previous good mood disappeared.
The Queen Mother asked directly, "Has Your Majesty never touched any of the women I once selected for Him?"
The emperor didn't expect the empress dowager to ask this, but after hearing it, he nodded truthfully.
"Why?" the Queen Mother asked in great disappointment, "I worked so hard to arrange things for you back then, looking forward to the birth of a little grandson, and yet you're just pretending to obey me?"
The empress dowager was so angry that her chest heaved. She picked up the tea bowl beside her and threw it directly at the emperor.
The emperor did not hide, and blood flowed directly down his forehead.
The empress dowager was also shocked. She had never thought that the emperor would actually be hit.
The emperor's voice was filled with coldness. "Why? Your Majesty, do you think I haven't tried it before? It's because I can't. Why didn't I tell you? Because I didn't want to disappoint you."
"What do you think of me, your Majesty? Before, you didn't even ask my opinion and directly asked the late emperor to grant me a marriage. At that time, you treated me as a pawn to be manipulated in your struggle for power and profit."
"Later, I became like a tool for your reproduction. Look at the people you chose for me. Am I just a tool for your breeding?"
The Queen Mother choked up, "I am doing this for your own good."
"Yes, I know that you, Mother, did this for your own good. That's why I couldn't bear to disappoint you, so I told you this white lie. Now, Mother, can you rest assured?"
"Now that Jiang Yi has given birth to a child, I think I have completed my mission, right?"
The Queen Mother then thought of Jiang Yi and what Concubine Shen had said before.
"I was overreacting," the Queen Mother said after calming herself down. "The eldest prince is the only child the Emperor has. I've thought about it and realized that the Empress, after all, has never raised a child. She doesn't know how to raise one, let alone shoulder the responsibility of educating the crown prince."
"Why not let my family raise the eldest prince?"
The emperor looked at the empress dowager in disbelief.
After a long moment, he laughed out loud, "Does the Queen Mother think I'm dead?"
"What do you mean? I was just discussing something with you." The Queen Mother said with a guilty conscience.
The emperor said, "Impossible. This child was born after ten months of pregnancy by Jiang Yi. He is my child and Jiang Yi's. He should be raised by me and Jiang Yi together."
"You are their imperial grandmother. You can visit me on a regular basis, or I can bring them to pay my respects to the Queen Mother. But you are trying to take them away. That is impossible."
"Not only Jiang Yi won't agree, I won't agree either."
"I used to want to maintain some semblance of respectability, but now that the Queen Mother has put forward such a condition, I cannot help but be cautious. From now on, the Queen Mother will not even want to see them."
The emperor's eyes were grim, his tone was stern, and his tone was unquestionable.
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