Chapter 483 Family Ties
On the twenty-ninth day, the princes and princesses all returned.
After returning to the palace, everyone should follow the etiquette and pay respects to the queen. This is to pay respects to the stepmother.
The princes and princesses entered Fengzao Palace. The queen did not put on airs and sat down to meet them.
They saluted and the Queen called them to their feet.
"Are you all having fun?" asked the Queen.
The second prince considered himself the elder brother and stepped forward: "Thank you for your concern, mother. The sons all had a great time. We were not satisfied at first, but father extended the time by three days, so we had a great time now."
"The same goes for my daughter and sisters." said the eldest princess.
"That's good. You are tired too. You can go to each palace to pay your respects later. If you are tired, you don't have to go back to Ruiqing Palace. You can go back tomorrow. The third prince should go back to Ruiqing Palace first." said the queen.
Everyone looked at the Third Prince. Although he was not as innocent as the kids outside, he was still a child after all and could not hide anything.
During the past few days in the palace, the servants of each family have brought back the news.
Although he didn't say it on the surface, everyone knew that the third prince's mother was convicted and was no longer his mother.
"Yes." The third prince responded with a bad look on his face.
He also heard the news, but he was anxious and didn't dare to say anything.
Even though his father forbade him to see his mother, he didn't dare say anything.
Everyone dispersed, and the Third Prince, who had nowhere to go, walked alone towards Ruiqing Palace.
The fifth prince looked at him for a few seconds and sighed softly. Wasn't he like this before? Fortunately, his new mother was a good person.
The Sixth Prince ran all the way back to Yufu Palace, almost exhausting the eunuchs to death.
Shen Chuliu was sitting in the yard, and when he saw him like this, he laughed: "If you run slower, will your mother run away?"
The Sixth Prince was running in a hurry and was very thirsty. He didn't care about anything else but drinking tea.
There was only tea on the table, but he didn't care and just picked it up and took several sips.
"You're like a cow chewing a peony. Is this how you drink the best tea?" Shen Chuliu couldn't help laughing.
The Sixth Prince finished drinking and then laughed: "Mother, you are being too deliberate. Tea is meant to be drunk. It is used to quench thirst and to taste tea in leisure time. If you don't want to taste tea, you won't dare to drink it properly. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?"
"Oh, my son's reading of the book was not in vain, what he said is indeed true. As a mother, I feel ashamed of myself. Come, drink some more." Shen Chuliu looked at him with a smile.
The Sixth Prince chuckled and drank a few more sips without being polite.
"Greetings to my mother, may mother be well." He said after he had finished drinking.
"Well, get up." Shen Chuliu was in a good mood.
The Sixth Prince also sat on the bamboo chair opposite her: "Mother, what happened to Third Brother's mother?"
"Okay. Now you can hold it in. You even know to greet first and then ask, huh?" Shen Chuliu smiled at his son.
The Sixth Prince chuckled: "Mom, tell me."
"Well, tell me. I didn't mean to hide it from you." Shen Chuliu organized her words. "It's not good to tell others about those crimes. We only said that Concubine Kangde was untalented, immoral, narrow-minded, and unworthy of being a concubine, so she was demoted to a commoner. In fact, she did a lot of things. For example, when mother was pregnant with you, she poisoned you and almost got into trouble."
Shen Chuliu briefly talked about what Concubine Kangde Liu had done.
"Your third brother was not born by her. Now that she is like this, your father will naturally not ask your third brother to recognize her again."
"Ah, I know, Third Brother's biological mother is Concubine Miao." The Sixth Prince slowly digested it: "But why did she ask that... Liu to raise Third Brother? If Concubine Miao's status was low, then there would be no one to raise Fifth Brother in the past few years."
"Perhaps at that time, your father did not know Liu's character. Or maybe, Liu had given birth to the eldest prince after all, and thought that she would be comforted by having a child."
Shen Chuliu looked at the Sixth Prince and thought that no one's child could replace her own.
Even if you treat other children as your own, or treat them very well, it is not the same.
People are all independent individuals. Who can replace whom? "Mother, why are you looking at me like that?" The Sixth Prince felt uneasy and scratched his head.
Shen Chuliu smiled and said, "Mother looks at you and thinks that no one can replace you."
"That's right! Do you think mother wants to raise someone else's child? No! I won't allow it!" The Sixth Prince exploded.
"Tsk, shut up. Your mother didn't give birth to another child for you, and she's still supporting someone else. Shut up now." Shen Chuliu frowned.
The Sixth Prince chuckled.
"Silly boy, go change your clothes. Let's have lunch." Shen Chuliu said.
"Don't worry, don't worry. I've brought you something good. A jade clock. Bring it here." The Sixth Prince waved his hand.
Yulou and his men carried a shelf from the outside to the innermost courtyard. There was a cover on the shelf, but no one knew what it was.
"What is this?" Shen Chuliu stood up with great interest.
The Sixth Prince opened it himself and said, "Look, I know that mother doesn't like most things. I dug this myself and asked the eunuchs in the palace to plant it in a pot for me. They said it's called jewel flower. I thought it was growing well, and I asked the imperial physician who accompanied me. He said it's non-toxic and good to keep indoors. So I asked them to make two pots of it."
Shen Chuliu smiled when he saw it. It was a kind of succulent, probably some kind of aloe vera?
Looks very nice.
"Well, it looks really good. Come on, put it on the table." Shen Chuliu.
"Slow down, you can't water it too much, otherwise the roots will easily rot." The Sixth Prince said hurriedly.
"Okay, tell them to remember it." Shen Chuliu thought to herself, "I know," but she couldn't bear to let the children's good intentions be ignored, so she patiently listened to him talk about the precautions.
“Also, I asked someone to send the pheasants and other things shot outside the palace to the kitchen. They will be cooked soon.” The Sixth Prince waved his hand with great imposingness.
Shen Chuliu looked at him and felt that this child looked very much like his father most of the time.
However, this kind of free and easy attitude is even more than his father's.
After all, due to a different living environment, Qi Yixiu lived a cautious life when he was a child, and his nature was probably suppressed a lot.
But with her around, Qi Yan is indeed happy and doesn't feel depressed.
"Okay, go change your clothes. Mom will be waiting for you to eat something delicious." Shen Chuliu smiled and touched the child's head.
The Sixth Prince had no worries this time and left happily.
After washing and changing clothes, the Sixth Prince asked again, "By the way, mother, will Yulou come back in the future?"
"So that's how it is. What? Do you like it?" Shen Chuliu asked.
"Well, I feel he is more useful than the little eunuchs. Those little eunuchs are so small." He is still a child and despises others for being small.
"If you like, you can ask him to serve you. But he is much older than you, and he can't be as good as a young eunuch who can serve you for a lifetime." Shen Chuliu said.
"Then let him serve me until I grow up? When I build a palace?" asked the Sixth Prince.
"That's fine. He can train a few people over the years. But aren't you afraid that he is from my place and will tell me about you?" Shen Chuliu pinched his ear.
The Sixth Prince shook his head and shook his own mother's hand away: "I was born by my mother, what news can't I let my mother know?"
Shen Chuliu raised his eyebrows and thought, I hope you will think the same when you grow up.
(End of this chapter)
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