Gu Tingye's sister, Gu Tingcan, also known as Canjie'er, entered the palace and became the Crown Princess two years ago. Today she also returned to Ningyuan Marquis Mansion to help.
When returning home, Can Jie'er wore a veil on her head and entered the house through the side door in a low-key manner.
I still remember when I first entered the Eastern Palace, Sister Can went back to the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion for the first time. All the masters and servants in the mansion knelt to greet her. It was a scene of a sea of people kneeling down. Sister Can tried to avoid it if possible.
When Can Jie'er was thirteen years old, she received the imperial decree from the Queen, granting her marriage. The night she received the decree, Bai secretly cried all night.
The backyards of families with a little bit of wealth are not quiet, let alone the royal family, the Eastern Palace.
It wasn't until the Crown Prince personally visited the Ningyuan Marquis's residence the next day and assured Gu Yankai and Bai that he would not take a concubine as long as the legitimate son was not born that Bai finally felt half relieved. The other half was still worried about Sister Can's future life in the Eastern Palace.
In reality, life in the Eastern Palace wasn't as difficult as Bai had imagined. The Crown Prince was a gentleman, gentle and courteous to everyone, and even more gentle to his wife, Can Jie'er. The two of them had initially treated each other with respect, and now they had a mutual affection.
The prince had only met Sister Can a few times before and was not familiar with her. The elders arranged the marriage between the two, and the prince only married Sister Can as his legal wife, with no special feelings for her.
After the two got married, the prince discovered that his wife had two faces in public and in private. In public, Can Jie'er was at ease and was praised by everyone as a dignified and virtuous princess consort. But in private, Can Jie'er was lively and cheerful, a quirky little girl.
The prince was attracted by this kind of Can Jie'er and gradually fell in love with her. If it weren't for an urgent report to be dealt with today, the prince would have followed Can Jie'er back to Ningyuan Marquis Mansion.
The Crown Prince and Sister Can had been married for two years, and their eldest son was now almost a year old, but the Crown Prince hadn't considered taking another woman in. On the one hand, he had too many political tasks assigned to him by his father, and on the other hand, he didn't want to upset Sister Can.
The Crown Prince had seen his mother's grief-stricken expression a month after his father agreed to take a concubine. Overnight, his mother seemed to have aged five or six years, languishing and haggard, and suffering a serious illness. Even after his father postponed the conscription for another six months, his mother's expression never returned to its former state.
The Crown Prince also didn't understand why his father wanted to take a concubine. He already had two sons. Wasn't that enough to inherit the dynasty?
The late Empress Dowager, Empress Jing'an, the Crown Prince's grandmother, lost two sons to the schemes of a concubine. Father had clearly experienced the bloodshed in the deep palace.
There are currently three princes in the royal family: the eldest prince, also known as the crown prince, the second prince, and the fourth prince. The eldest and second princes were both born to the empress, while the fourth prince's mother was Consort Shu.
The Empress suffered injuries during the birth of the Second Prince and was unable to bear children again. After the previous court learned of this, the ministers submitted several memorials, and two years passed before the Emperor finally agreed to take a concubine.
The Emperor's harem only had six women in total, and Concubine Shu was considered a prestigious one, but she was far inferior to the Empress. The Emperor loved and respected the Empress the most, but he couldn't bear to have only the Empress as his only woman.
The queen used to think that she would have a good life like her mother. Later, when the emperor took a concubine, she was indeed sad for a long time. No woman would willingly share her husband with others.
But a few years ago, the Queen had come to terms with things. In addition to managing the harem and raising her two sons, she and Princess Jinyi began to study the notes left by Queen Jing'an together.
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