Chapter 53 053 The only hope of the prince’s family.
Shui Rong, the prince of Beijing, is now thirteen years old, which is the awkward age of being neither too young nor too young.
Although he is called a teenager, he seems too immature. Although he is called a child, he already knows a lot about human affairs.
So, generally speaking, thirteen-year-old boys always have a feeling of being awkward and trying too hard because they don’t know how to get along with this world.
Of course, there are also outliers like Jia Baoyu - he doesn't want to grow up at all, so that he can continue to hang around in the backyard, being spoiled by female elders and sisters, without having to bear any family responsibilities.
But of course there are exceptions, such as Shui Rong, who is different from ordinary thirteen-year-old boys.
Of course, it is very different from Jia Baoyu.
There are similarities, otherwise they wouldn't have hit it off so well the first time they met after so many years, and they would have become sworn brothers almost on the spot.
For example, they are all good-looking.
Because Shui Rong has an extremely beautiful mother, the current Princess Beijing, his appearance is also very outstanding. In addition, he has a good upbringing, so even if it is just a simple greeting, he can do it very decently and nicely.
This is a big plus in terms of foreign relations.
In fact, this is not the first time Shui Rong has met Master Kang.
He had been in the palace since he was six years old to be the companion of the Eighth Prince. Because he was the same age as the Eighth Prince and had a good family background, he was chosen by Master Kang to be the companion of the Eighth Prince, who was already very favored at the time.
Even the Beijing Prince's Mansion, which was the head of the "Four Kings and Eight Dukes", was also a royal servant, so it was a great honor for the children of the palace to be selected to enter the palace as companions to the princes. It can be said that it was because of this that the Beijing Prince was relieved to let his son become the crown prince.
After all, although there are other sons in the palace, this son is the most outstanding. Now the royal family also takes a fancy to him, which is simply icing on the cake.
This is also a good thing for Princess Beijing.
Although she still looks beautiful and charming, she is actually old. If nothing unexpected happens, Shui Rong will be her only son in this life.
But Prince Beijing was not a quiet man. Since he was young, he was not afraid of beautiful maids, the most beautiful courtesans in brothels, or anything dirty and smelly. In recent years, as he got older and his health deteriorated, it did not stop him from hunting for beauties.
The most terrifying thing is that he not only likes to find women, but he is also very fertile...
There are more than ten sons living close to the mansion, not counting daughters, because even Princess Beijing can't quite count how many daughters he has... In short, she only knows that except for the son and daughter she gave birth to, the others are all illegitimate.
Under such circumstances, if one wants to keep the family business, Shui Rong can only be so outstanding that he can kill all the illegitimate sons in seconds, and the little princess also needs to find an excellent marriage. It would be best if after these two things are done, Prince Beijing dies suddenly, so that she, the Princess of Beijing, can be directly promoted to the Dowager Consort of Beijing, and then she can live out her old age in peace.
In order to achieve this goal, Princess Beijing did a lot of things. More than ten years later, her efforts finally paid off.
Because of his outstanding performance, Shui Rong successfully entered the palace and became the companion of the Eighth Prince. It is said that the Eighth Prince also won the favor of the Emperor because of his outstanding intelligence, and even made the Eighth Prince's biological mother, the Empress Wei, who was of humble origin, "become noble because of her son" and successfully promoted to "Empress Liang".
You have to know that she was just a noble lady before. If the Eighth Prince had not been recognized by His Majesty, she would have never had the opportunity to be promoted to a concubine or even a royal consort.
The result was that because she gave birth to a good son, she was promoted several levels in a row. It was really a promotion speed as fast as riding a rocket.
This is simply because the Eighth Prince is so outstanding.
Princess Beijing expressed her envy, and fortunately her Shui Rong was such an outstanding study partner of the Eighth Prince.
Everyone knows that a tutor is a prince's first and most enduring confidant. His Majesty's former tutor, Lord Wei Dongting, is now a first-rank official, which is really enviable.
Although the status of their Prince Beijing's Mansion sounds very high, it is just an empty title without real power and is not worth anything.
Only by truly becoming the confidant of the powerful can you have a better future.
By then, the small Beijing Prince's Mansion would be of no use. Her Rong'er could completely rely on her own abilities to become a king and a prime minister, without having to endure this humiliation.
Due to years of emotional discord, Princess Beijing was too lazy to deal with Prince Beijing.
Therefore, she paid close attention to the education of Shui Rong and the little princess.
Of course, the effect is also very good. At least in the case of Shui Rong, she has achieved remarkable success.
Shui Rong's excellence was well known to Master Kang, so when he came forward to pay his respects today, Master Kang was in a very good mood. Not only was his attitude very kind, he also rewarded him something on the spot - people like Master Kang, if they really admire someone, they will definitely show it.
Therefore, he not only praised Shui Rong directly, but also rewarded Shui Rong with many good things. From this point of view, Master Kang really likes Shui Rong, and the general public who do not know the truth will definitely think that His Majesty is very satisfied with Beijing Prince's Mansion.
But this is, of course, the greatest fallacy of all.
Because Master Kong’s feelings towards the “Four Kings and Eight Dukes” including Prince Beijing are actually quite complicated.
On the one hand, he knew very well that the ancestors of these people were heroes who had followed his ancestors to conquer the country - if it were not for their "merit of following the dragon" back then, these people of different surnames would have had no chance of being crowned kings or given titles.
On the other hand, he deeply detested those officials of different generations who rested on the merits of their ancestors and had no desire to make progress.
To be honest, Master Kang doesn't like the current Prince Beijing, Shui Rong's father.
Because this guy was originally his bodyguard - the reason why he was not a study companion was because this Prince Beijing was the old Prince Beijing's late-born son, and was several years younger than Master Kang, so he certainly couldn't accompany him to study.
But even if he was a guard, he would still have the chance to become his trusted general. After all, everyone knew that there was a very difficult matter at that time that was handled by the guards.
Capturing Oboi was the highlight moment for all the guards.
Not to mention that many of these imperial guards are related to the emperor. Is there any inevitable causal relationship between this and whether or not they are capable?
Some people with connections have outstanding abilities, while some people without connections just mess around every day. The current Prince Beijing happens to be one of those people who has connections and messes around every day.
This made Master Kang very uncomfortable.
After all, even the Emperor himself had to personally take part in the capture of Oboi, but Prince Beijing unfortunately said he was sick and didn't come that day... He wasn't pretending to be sick, he was really sick.
As for the cause of his illness, it was also very shocking. It turned out that he had been going to brothels for several months in a row, which drained his body. As for why this happened, it was said that it was because Princess Beijing was pregnant and he couldn't hold it in.
As a result, Princess Beijing was so angry that she had a miscarriage.
Of course, he had no way of participating in the big plan that Master Kang had previously conspired with the guards.
Fortunately, Master Kang did not have any high hopes for this unreliable guard, and even held him back because he was so unreliable, and did not let him join the core group.
So, in the end he didn't come, and it didn't have much impact on the plan to capture Oboi.
However, Master Kong will never give a second chance to such people who cannot grasp the key points and are extremely unreliable in doing things.
Therefore, after serving as a guard for a period of time, Prince Beijing returned home to inherit the throne of Prince Beijing - yes, at that time Prince Beijing was only the Prince Beijing's son.
Unlike him, the old Prince Beijing is a very reliable man. He has only had one wife, the old Princess Beijing, in his life. Apart from the children born to the old Princess Beijing, he does not even have a single illegitimate son or daughter. It can be said that he is a very rare good man.
But precisely because of this, only the current Prince of Beijing can sit on the throne of Prince of Beijing - because the old Prince of Beijing has only this one son. If he is not given the throne, does that mean that the title of Prince of Beijing will be lost in his lifetime?
How can we be worthy of our ancestors?
All I can say is, we should give it our all and hope that this kid can be more reliable after he gets married and starts a family.
Facts have proved that people don’t grow up suddenly, and Prince Beijing remained a teenager until his death.
The old Prince Beijing and Princess Beijing carefully selected and found such a capable Princess Beijing for him to marry, but he ended up going out to spend money on wine and women during her pregnancy and even made himself sick, and even delayed his work in the palace.
Although no one knew what the mission was, after that, their Prince Beijing's Mansion never received a good look from the His Majesty again. How could old Prince Beijing not see the reason behind this?
The old man got so angry that he fell seriously ill and died soon after.
Prince Beijing came to power and continued to be a jerk. Princess Beijing was indeed a good person. After losing her first child, she suddenly figured things out. She rested for a few years and finally got pregnant again after a few years and gave birth to a legitimate son, Shui Rong.
Then a few years later, she became a legitimate daughter and a little princess, so it can be said that she had both a son and a daughter.
Princess Beijing was satisfied and stopped having children. She became a virtuous princess and a loving but strict mother. As for the Prince of Beijing and the relationship between husband and wife, what is that? Can you eat it?
It would be better for her to keep her two children safe and wait for the old man to kill himself so that she can become the Concubine Dowager of Beijing.
Shui Rong is a good one, and the little princess is also good.
So, what on earth is His Majesty doing here today with the Empress Dowager, the Fifth Princess, and his daughters and sons to the Prince of Beijing's Mansion?
Princess Beijing was confused, but she had no idea what to do. She could only respond to the situation and act accordingly.
Fortunately, Master Kang seemed to be behaving normally, just like any other relative who came to visit. After praising Shui Rong, he gave him a lot of gifts, and then nothing happened.
So everyone just enjoyed the flowers together, and even wrote a few poems, which was quite interesting.
But with him here, everyone is rather reserved and nothing can be done.
Not to mention, Princess Beijing originally held this flower-viewing banquet for the purpose of setting up a blind date event, but when Master Kang came, basically everything was ruined.
Fortunately, she had already seen everything she needed to see, so it didn't delay her work.
Even the plans of Princess Nan'an and Princess Dongping to meet each other are probably going to fail - there's nothing they can do about it, the sudden arrival of His Majesty was something no one expected, so they can only admit that they have bad luck.
Master Kang and his party stayed in Prince Beijing's mansion for nearly an hour before leaving. Princess Beijing personally saw them out the door. Just then, she saw Prince Beijing coming back from the suburbs in a drunken state. It looked like he had been hanging out with some wild woman again.
Princess Beijing was too lazy to care about him and was about to go back to entertain the guests when she suddenly heard a little girl's voice, saying faintly:
[Emma, this is Shui Rong's father, a ridiculous father, a strong-willed mother, a weak sister, and a broken man? What a devastating start.]
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