Chapter 540 Queen
To be honest, Li Zhaoyi was very generous when she was seeking death, but she is still afraid now.
After all, Shen Chuliu is the kind of person who would beat people up if they disagree with something.
But Shen Chuliu was too lazy to hit her. It would be useless even if she was a fool.
In Fuyang Palace, the Second Prince came to see Concubine Qian Shu. He would be leaving tomorrow, and he was still a little nervous.
But what he was more worried about was that Concubine Qian Shu would be bullied again when he was not in the palace.
"Mother, don't worry about your son. There are many people following him. As for you, please don't argue with others. Everything will wait until your son comes back."
"I understand. Mother is not young anymore and she won't compete for favor. Her status is still there and she won't argue with others." Concubine Qian Shu sighed.
You have to accept it and admit that you have fallen out of favor a long time ago, or that you have never really been in favor.
The Second Prince naturally hoped this in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud.
So he comforted Concubine Qian Shu with a few more words.
Finally, the second prince had to go to Fengzao Palace to bid farewell to the queen.
When he was talking to the queen, he suddenly had a very strange feeling.
The Queen has always been like this since she was young.
The smile, the look, the style of doing things, have hardly changed.
The attitude towards these princes and princesses has always been the same.
You can say that she is just being polite and follows the rules, and never takes it seriously, but after seeing her do it the same way for ten years, you have to admire her consistency.
This shows that she never cares.
Either she was not favored or she did not give birth to a prince.
But her position became more and more stable year by year.
The emperor definitely didn't like the queen, but so what? The queen always won the emperor's trust and need with her impartial attitude.
That's enough.
So, the second prince looked at the woman in front of him and felt that the words his mother said when he was a child were all useless.
My mother is indeed not as good as the queen.
Perhaps the queen had seen through everything early on.
The next morning, the second prince set out from Taiji Palace.
Naturally, many people went with him.
He is not the main person in charge, but the emperor wants to train his own princes, so naturally he has a say.
The carriage rumbled out of the imperial city, and it would take at least half a month to travel south.
This is all provided there are no delays on the road.
In the Imperial City, the weather gradually warmed up after the fifteenth day of the lunar month. However, the weather in the Imperial City was not really warm at the moment.
Sometimes the temperature would suddenly drop in March. The people in Yu Fu Palace had served Shen Chuliu for many years, so they naturally knew how to add or remove clothes and adjust the brazier.
Shen Chuliu seldom goes out during the day. After paying his respects, he just plays in his own palace, which is quite comfortable.
When I finally wanted to go out for a walk, it was already past the second day of the second month, the weather had become much warmer, and the outside looked completely different.
Shen Chuliu and Lady Yao went to the Luming Lake together.
"The Second Prince should have reached the southwest by now, right?" Concubine Yao calculated.
"It will probably take a few days. This is his first time traveling far away and he is not used to riding a horse." Shen Chuliu estimated.
After all, today's princes were all raised in a greenhouse.
Even though the fighting in the harem was fierce, it was not as intense as during the time of the previous emperor.
"That's true. Mei Chongyuan's body is almost ready." said Lady Yao.
"She is too cautious. Except for the Chinese New Year, you have never seen her go out in the past few months." Shen Chuliu said with a smile.
"Yes, but being cautious has its uses. It has been eight or nine months without any problems."
"That's right. Everyone says that this baby of hers is a prince?" Shen Chuliu asked.
"That's true, but it's hard to say what the people below say is true." Who wouldn't say that their master is pregnant with a prince? It's always better to have a prince.
"It would be good to give birth to a prince." Let's fight.
"That's not up to me. It all depends on God's arrangement." Lady Yao shook her head.
The two of them were strolling around, feeling pretty good.
When she met the second princess on the road, she greeted them politely: "Hello, Mother Jing, Hello, Mother Yao."
"Hello, Second Princess. Where are you going?" Shen Chuliu smiled and waved her hand.
"I don't have anywhere to go, so I just took a walk. When I saw you two, I came to pay my respects. I see that Mother Jing has become much plumper recently. It's good this way. It's not good to be as thin as she was last year." The second princess said with a smile.
"Really? That's good, it means that raising it for half a month is still useful." Shen Chuliu smiled: "The second princess has grown a lot taller. She is already a big girl."
"Hehe, it's not good to grow up too fast, it's better to grow slowly." The second princess smiled and said, "Then I won't bother you two mothers, I'll go for a walk in the imperial garden."
"Okay, Princess, take care." Shen Chuliu said with a smile.
The two parties said goodbye politely.
Among the princesses, there are indeed strong and weak ones, and the second princess is absolutely the strong one.
She really lives up to her origins.
The emperor's only legitimate son, his biological mother is Princess Chao.
Compared to the eldest princess, she is much more powerful.
"The Second Princess and the Queen have different personalities." Concubine Yao said with a smile.
"That's not necessarily the case. In my opinion, they have the same personality." Shen Chuliu said.
"This...how do you mean this?" Lady Yao was puzzled.
"The queen is the queen. She came to Dayi as a princess from a young age. How should a princess live? And what should she do when she becomes the crown princess in the future? What about the queen? There are too many rules and regulations for her. Even if she doesn't care about the relatives of the court anymore, she can't care about her status. How can people like us understand the princess?"
The queen must always be aware of not only her identity as queen, but also her identity as princess of the court.
For example, when the Chao Dynasty's army was approaching that year, one can imagine the pressure she was under.
Even though she was smart and knew nothing would happen to her, she still had to face that kind of pressure.
Besides, even if you are cold towards your relatives, after all, you have left your hometown, how can you not miss them?
In this way, no matter how genuine her character is, it will be suppressed under various identities.
When meeting the people of the court, she must be a princess who has firmly established herself as the queen in the Dayi Dynasty.
When facing the Dayi Dynasty, she must be the link between Chao State and the Dayi Dynasty.
In fact, her status does not allow her to have a romantic relationship.
So, she only needed to do things within the rules, so she didn't care about the emperor or the concubines.
She doesn't care about the children that are not hers.
But she doesn't care, but she has to be generous and fair.
There are too many, so how can there be true nature?
But the second princess is different.
Her mother's identity brought her only dignity.
Her mother's care for her also allowed her to live freely and naturally speak and act freely.
"I never thought about these things in the past, but now it seems that the Queen has a hard time too." Concubine Yao shook her head.
"Yes, it is indeed not easy." Shen Chuliu thought, if it were him, he would definitely not be able to do what the queen did.
(End of this chapter)
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