Chapter 180 Not of my kind
Empress Zhu looked at the happy scene of the family of three, and her heart could not help but become sad again.
Once upon a time, when her eldest prince and second prince were still alive, they had such sweet times with the emperor.
Her eyes were moist, and she showed envy.
Jiang Xinyue glanced at her and took the initiative to say: "Empress, you should also hug the little dumpling! You are his legal mother!"
Empress Zhu is the principal concubine. In folk language, the Sixth Prince has to call her mother, and Jiang Xinyue can only call her aunt.
"I...this palace?"
Empress Zhu did not expect Jiang Xinyue to take the initiative to bring it up: "Can this palace hug you?"
"Of course you can."
Jiang Xinyue sat up, pushed the emperor, and signaled him to let the Empress hug him.
Emperor Xuanwu, who had not yet had enough fun holding the baby, reluctantly handed the little ball over: "Empress, be careful."
Empress Zhu had only just raised the fifth prince, and he still had physical memories, so she was much more skilled in holding a baby than the emperor.
The sixth prince's eyes were tightly closed, but the beautiful curves of his big eyes could still be seen from his big eyelids.
He slept soundly, with small bubbles coming out of his mouth.
Empress Zhu popped his small bubbles with her fingers, and a smile unconsciously appeared on the corners of her mouth: "He looks so cute." He did
n't look like the emperor's cold face at all, and looked very well-behaved, but he looked a lot like Concubine Zhen.
"Your Majesty... Empress Dowager... I am wrong..."
"Empress Liang, you cannot go in. Concubine Zhen has just given birth. You are so wet that you might bump into the Sixth Prince..."
"I will not go in."
Concubine Liang knelt in the yard outside the delivery room: "I will wait for Your Majesty and Empress Dowager here."
The pouring rain instantly turned Concubine Liang into a pale female water ghost.
When the noise came in, Emperor Xuanwu remembered that there was still Concubine Liang who had not been dealt with.
"Madame Li, take the Sixth Prince down to feed him."
As soon as he finished speaking, Madam Li came forward to take over the Sixth Prince and took the wet nurse to the back hall.
"Yuer, have a good rest. I will come to see you after I deal with Concubine Liang."
Jiang Xinyue rested her hands on the bed, her long black hair draped over her shoulders, and her thin clothes slipped off her shoulders, revealing her snow-white and delicate shoulders.
She lowered her beautiful eyes: "Concubine Liang...she...probably didn't do it on purpose. I was also wrong at that time. Those eunuchs bullied Xiaoman and said that Concubine Liang..."
The beautiful girl...no...although her appearance is still youthful and beautiful, she has given birth to a child and can be called a beautiful woman.
Jiang Xinyue bit her lip and said, "I was too impulsive. I shouldn't have taken people to smash Shun'an Palace."
This made Emperor Xuanwu even more dissatisfied with Concubine Liang: "Don't worry about this, Yue'er. I've had enough of Concubine Liang's temper. Although she always quarreled with me in the past, she never used any means to treat children. I didn't expect that she has been going too far recently. If I don't teach her a lesson this time, she will be ignorant of the world."
Empress Zhu was worried about Concubine Liang. She forced a smile at Jiang Xinyue and hurriedly followed the emperor to see the situation.
Concubine Liang shivered in the heavy rain, her eyes were soaked, but she didn't dare to complain at all.
"Let her in."
It was raining so hard outside that no one could hear her shouting. Emperor Xuanwu's eyes were filled with murderous intent. He glanced at her and returned to the lobby of the delivery room.
The weather in April had warmed up a little, but Concubine Liang was still shivering from the cold.
She had done something wrong and pushed Concubine Zhen down, causing her to give birth early, which almost resulted in two deaths. The palace maids in Hexi Palace hated her so much that no one would give her anything to wipe the rain off her body, let alone give her clean clothes to change into.
So she could only kneel in the hall like a wolf.
Empress Zhu was afraid that the Emperor would not even listen to her explanation, so she directly convicted Concubine Liang. Before the Emperor could speak, she asked, "Concubine Liang, why did you push Concubine Zhen down?"
With the help of Xi Que and Shuang Jiang, Jiang Xinyue walked behind the screen outside the delivery room and eavesdropped on Concubine Liang's answer.
Speaking of this, Concubine Liang still had a bit of indignation on her face: "Your Majesty, Empress, it was wrong for me to push Concubine Zhen down, but it was Concubine Zhen who spoke first. She actually wanted to propose to Your Majesty to marry the eldest princess to the prince of Fusang, who had a deceased princess and was old enough to be the eldest princess's father, as his successor. I was so angry that I... pushed her down by mistake."
Concubine Zhen, who was behind the screen, raised her lips: "Idiot."
"It's simply nonsense!"
Emperor Xuanwu was so angry at Concubine Liang's nonsense that he laughed: "Concubine Zhen was speaking for you in there just now, you really don't deserve her tolerance and kindness. At this point, you don't want to make amends for her, but you want to frame her."
"I didn't!"
Concubine Liang hurriedly defended herself: "If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, you can just ask Concubine Zhen to come out and confront me. If I tell a lie, then..."
"Your Majesty Liang has really put a lot of effort into making me sick."
Jiang Xinyue walked out in a white dress, weak and frail, holding Xi Que's hand, with a look of shock on her face: "Even if I die here today, I will explain everything clearly to Your Majesty Liang. I don't know any Prince Fufeng, and I have never said that I would marry the eldest princess to a Fuso man."
"You...you...it was clearly you who said..."
"Enough!"
The emperor interrupted her: "The Prince of Fuso is only seventeen years old and has never been married. How can he marry a second wife after the death of the princess? I don't know where you heard that the Prince of Fuso asked me to marry the princess, but I tell you, it was Concubine Zhen who said that Fuso is a small country and is not worthy of my princess of Dayan, so I rejected Fuso's request for marriage. You said Concubine Zhen wanted the princess to marry far away in Fuso, how is this possible?"
Fuso has always been a vassal state of Dayan and has been subject to Dayan for hundreds of years. It is understandable that it wants to marry a princess of Dayan to make the relationship between the two countries closer.
After hearing the news, many ministers in the court agreed that the princess should go there to marry to establish friendship between the two countries.
Only Jiang Aiqing objected, and said to him privately: "Your Majesty, those who are not of our race must have different hearts. If the two countries are sincere, there is no need to marry the princess far away to make peace. If they are not sincere, even if the princess marries, it will be a sacrifice of an innocent woman. Do we, Great Yan, have to rely on the princess' marriage to maintain relations with our vassal states?"
Jiang Yankun meant that if the request of Fusang for marriage was agreed to this time, then Goryeo would also ask for it in the future, Nero would also ask for it, and all the vassal states would ask for it. How many princesses would Dayan have to marry?
How did Dayan become the vassal state that needed to send a princess in exchange for peace?
Emperor Xuanwu only mentioned it to Jiang Xinyue, but she didn't expect that she would also firmly oppose sending a princess for marriage. She was very disdainful of Fusang in her words, and her words were similar to those of Jiang Aiqing.
Those who are not of my race must have different hearts. The princess went there to overcome the calamity. If she failed to overcome it, she would have lost her life in vain. Wouldn't that harm the princess? Would
such a person be like what Concubine Liang said?
Impossible!