Confession
The days I entered the palace were very unfortunate.
All parties were rushing about in a hurry - just like the people walking in Chang'an at three o'clock in the morning.
It’s not a coincidence, but that’s not entirely true.
The city of Chang'an is bustling with people coming and going, and the palace of Prince Qing is always bustling with guests.
The relatives and ministers of King Xiang were selling official positions and titles in Bingzhou, bullying men and women, occupying fertile land, and killing people to silence them. These victims traveled together over mountains and rivers, begging the saint for help.
People have entered Chang'an.
Prince Qing is busy, and so is his father.
The Wanshou Festival is approaching, and Princess Qing has to worry about everything. The Queen Mother has passed away, the Queen Consort has died suddenly, and the grandson's wife and daughter-in-law have to mourn and send off the funeral.
The Ningyang County Lady of the Qing Palace died of illness. Her mother, Concubine Xu, was already pregnant with a full-term baby. In the midst of grief, she suddenly gave birth. The princess took care of the funeral and immediately had to take care of the mother.
Princess, every day is very busy.
Rudi and I stayed together in the princess's courtyard for three long nights. I was aloof and evasive, and Rudi was shy and timid, so we didn't talk much.
It wasn't until the third night that I started to half-open my heart.
I told her about my ugly life story, and she comforted me. I told her about her miserable life story, and I comforted her.
Rudi's surname was Feng. She was born to Princess Qing's younger brother's first wife. His first wife died during childbirth, leaving Rudi alone in the world.
His stepmother was not kind, and his sisters and brothers often bullied him. His father was as silent as death, and he had a hard time growing up like a reed.
The princess took pity on her and took her into the palace to raise her.
I only slept with Ru Di for three nights. On the fourth day, Li San and Li Si were competing in the horse racing field. Both of them fell off their horses and rolled into the mud. One broke his leg and the other broke his tailbone. One had to recuperate with his leg in a hanging position and the other had to rest on his body.
Unfortunately, no bones were broken, and they were all small children, so it was easy to take care of them without leaving any chronic illness.
The princess is the legitimate mother, and the prince must be held accountable if his legitimate and illegitimate sons are in danger.
Li Si's biological mother, Mrs. Xue, was six or seven months pregnant and could not take care of him, so the responsibility of taking care of the two princes fell on the shoulders of the princess.
I stayed in the princess's courtyard for three and a half days, and every day I went to the children's room to pay my respects.
Ruren looks like Shanhua. I like Shanhua, I like Ruren, I like Huayang, and I like Anyang.
It’s not that I don’t love Princess Feng, Le Yang, and Ru Di.
Shanhua is lively and gentle, and I like gentleness and liveliness.
I begged Ruren to let me live with them.
I know I was offensive and rude, but I was still offensive and rude.
The lady doted on me, so without thinking too much, she went to ask the princess for help.
The princess was very busy, and even though she loved me, she had no time to take care of me. The lady said that she wanted to take me to her courtyard to stay for a while, and then send me back after a few days when the two young masters were well again.
Princess Qing looked at me and agreed.
I followed Ruren and Ah Xiang followed me.
When I left, Rudi looked at me and wanted to say something but didn't.
The princess never had any free time, so I lived in Tong Ru Ren's courtyard for a long time, and Ru Di never slept in the same bed with me again.
What she didn't say then, many years later, when we were sleeping in the same car on the way back to Chang'an from Qianzhou, she told me that she loved me very much and wanted me to stay with her. But how could Rudi, a child, say such explicit words? How could I, a child, have noticed?
I laughed and said, "I am naturally dull and cruel. If you hadn't said it yourself, I would have thought you were extremely angry and disgusted with me!"
On the official road, I laughed, and Rudi also laughed.
During my time at Prince Qing's Mansion, Princess Feng was my nominal adoptive mother, and Lady Tong was my real adoptive mother.
Anyang and I have lived in harmony all our lives, and Huayang and I have occasional disagreements, but I cannot live without her, and she cannot live without me. Even if the world turns upside down, it only takes a moment for her and I to reconcile.
In Chang'an City, the dispute over the crown prince remains unresolved.
In Prince Qing’s Mansion, the dispute among the crown princes is extremely bizarre.
Anyang hugged the baby, and Huayang and I hugged her, sitting on the crescent stool.
"Second brother, you are always half an hour earlier than big brother, and you always want to be better than big brother in everything. Do you know why?" Huayang asked me.
I shook my head, of course I didn't know.
Huayang raised his chin and said, "I am a white peacock that was tributed to Nanzhao. I hide when people come and bloom when people leave. I am exotic and beautiful, but I have never seen the world of the Central Plains."
I asked, "Where is Nanzhao? What does a white peacock look like? I've never seen one."
Huayang thought for a moment and said, "Nanzhao is naturally in the south."
"The white peacock, a patch of white, looks like a big goose..." Anyang stood up and told me while turning her skirt.
"There is only one in Chang'an City. It is in the imperial palace, in Concubine Guo's palace. I have only seen it once. I have never seen a peacock with white flowers." Huayang said.
Concubine Guo was the most noble woman in the Celestial Empire, so naturally the most rare and exotic animals were kept in her palace.
White peacocks are rare.
It is difficult to meet a prince.
Li Er, I often meet him.
Although the Yan family and the Wang Mansion are only separated by a wall, I have no idea about the dispute between the princes.
Huayang asked me to beg her, and she told me that I didn't beg her and didn't want to hear it.
Even if I don't ask her, she will still say it.
It is said that many years ago, the wife of Prince Qing was infertile for three years after her marriage, so the sage in the palace bestowed upon her a pair of concubines in order to continue the royal lineage of the Li family.
Among them, Mrs. Xue was beautiful and was favored by Prince Qing. As soon as she was favored, she became pregnant.
The sage had not yet appointed a queen, and the royal family had no legitimate son. Prince Qing was the eldest, so he favored the eldest son and daughter. Prince Qing had promised Ruren that if she gave birth to a boy, he would write a letter requesting that he be made the crown prince.
Mrs. Xue was supposed to give birth to Prince Qing's eldest son or daughter.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Xue was six months pregnant, and the queen's pulse showed that she was pregnant. The emperor's grandson was already more than a month old.
The lady begged day and night for a boy, and the Bodhisattva granted her the gift, but it was a boy, but the time was wrong.
The bad thing is that Ruren was born a month late, and the worse thing is that the queen was born four months early.
On the same day, the concubine moved first, and the queen moved later.
Strange.
The queen gave birth to a boy only half a minute earlier than the concubine.
Prince Qing felt that it was God's will, so he asked to make his eldest son the crown prince.
The crown prince is named Prince, and the prince is named Prince.
Although they are all kings and princes, they cannot stand shoulder to shoulder.
The fight for the crown prince is a narrow road, and the fight will be fought without mercy from the womb.
It was originally five months faster, but in the end, it only took half a quarter of an hour.
Mrs. Xue was resentful, and Li Er was not convinced.
"Second brother always says that eldest brother stole his position as crown prince, but eldest brother is the eldest son, and the position of crown prince was originally in his pocket. Any inanimate object or living person that eldest brother loves, as long as he takes a second look at it, second brother will snatch it away even if he doesn't like or love it." Huayang said.
"Second brother, you want both a piece of paper and an inkstone. It's fine if it's an inanimate object, but you can't let go of a living person... You know, there was a young eunuch named Zhu who always served you. Later, second brother took a fancy to him and started to act like a spoiled child, demanding it. But the eldest brother wouldn't let him go, and the whole neighborhood knew about it."
I will not give up an inch of the throne of the crown prince.
The power of the emperor is to punish without teaching.
This tyrant had been violent and aggressive since he was six months old in his mother's womb.
How can I defeat him?
I secretly thought, why don’t the Li brothers fight to the death?
Fighting over dead things and living people is not what I want.
"Because of a young eunuch, the brothers fell out. Grandpa sent him to the Changle Palace as a slave and gave the eldest brother a servant named Busi. Busi was helpful in every way, but the eldest brother always thought he was inferior to the original Buxiu. After a year or two, Buxiu suffered a lot and was transferred to the Taikang Princess Palace to serve as a servant. The second brother had long forgotten everything, so how could he remember Buxiu? The eldest brother never forgot him. Grandpa and the Empress could not persuade the eldest brother, so they had to let Buxiu return from the princess's palace to serve in the palace."
That day, after listening to Huayang's words, I only thought that the prince was just a eunuch, and he was either doing it to please him or because he was angry and refused to give in.
I just remember that since the eunuch named Zhu was favored by the Prince of Qing, he was a nobleman and I couldn't offend him.
I was young and naive at that time, and Huayang was the same. He just spoke without thinking about the underlying situation. He just thought that the prince was always noble and dignified, strict with himself and others.
Many years later, the sage fell in love with his male favorite, causing chaos in his harem and bringing disaster to the government. He wanted to make his male favorite the male queen...
Looking back on the past, there were actually clues and traces already, but no one in Prince Qing's mansion was suspicious at the time.
However, I am a bastard born from incest and corruption, and I have no right to comment on the saint's love for daughters and favor of sons, or the establishment of sons and daughters.
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