Chapter 189 Great Fatherly Love
"Remember that you always bully Xiaoman."
Jiang Xinyue held the little head of the third prince with both hands, kneading his face until it was deformed, facing his silly and cute eyes, and taught him: "Xiaoman, like Xiaotuanzi, is your younger brother and your flesh and blood. Empress Zhen hopes that no matter who you hear saying bad things about Xiaoman, you will stand up and speak for him at the first time. Because he, like you, and Xiaotuanzi, are children of your father. You should be the closest people, understand?"
The third prince seemed to have heard such words for the first time, and his big eyes were full of confusion: "But... Empress Yu said he was a bastard, and his mother was the lowest criminal slave. He is not worthy to be with us..."
"Who taught you to say such things?"
An angry voice came, and Emperor Xuanwu came in through the curtains, staring at the third prince with his eyes full of oppression, scaring him so much that he burst into tears and went straight into Jiang Xinyue's arms.
The eldest princess and the second princess were so scared that their chopsticks fell on the table, and they looked at Jiang Xinyue nervously, their eyes full of fear.
Only the Fourth Prince had never been cared for by his father, and naturally had never been beaten, so he was not afraid, and ran over to ask attentively: "Father, have you had breakfast? Mother has a lot of delicious food here, and I can share some with you."
Emperor Xuanwu picked up the Fourth Prince and said to the Third Prince sternly: "The Fourth Prince is my son just like you. If he is a bastard, who are you?"
He was plotted against by the Fourth Prince's biological mother. It was one thing to dislike them, but if such a young child was instilled with this idea, the fight between the princes in the future would definitely be a life-and-death struggle.
He didn't want to see this happen.
The Third Prince was so scared that he trembled in Jiang Xinyue's arms and didn't even dare to cry.
"Why is the emperor so fierce?"
Jiang Xinyue hugged the third prince and comforted him: "What does a child know? He just treated Xiaoman like an adult. If the emperor is angry, he should find Concubine Yu and Concubine De and ask them to avoid children when they talk about right and wrong in the future."
The problem should be solved at the root, instead of yelling at children who have no ability to distinguish right from wrong.
The emperor, who was beaten up, looked embarrassed: "Isn't it because I was in a hurry and worried that what he said would hurt Xiaoman?"
"The way to protect Xiaoman should not be at the cost of hurting the Third Prince."
Jiang Xinyue glared at him: "You will only make the Third Prince hate Xiaoman more and more."
After that, she ignored the emperor, patted the Third Prince on the back and said: "Our Third Prince is such a well-behaved, sensible and caring child, he will definitely get along well with his younger brother, right?"
The Third Prince raised his tear-red eyes from her arms and nodded hesitantly: "Empress Zhen, I was wrong, I shouldn't bully Xiaoman."
Jiang Xinyue nodded: "Empress Zhen knows that the Third Prince definitely didn't mean it, then are you willing to apologize to Xiaoman? I believe Xiaoman also wants to be good friends with your brother."
The Third Prince sniffed, although he was still reluctant, but the hostility towards the Fourth Prince in his eyes had decreased a lot.
Children of this age have the strongest self-esteem. They were a little embarrassed to apologize, and their faces flushed as they said, "I'm sorry, little brother Xiaoman. I shouldn't have said that to you. I will never do that again. Can you forgive me?"
The fourth prince also smiled shyly, "Then we will be good friends from now on, right?"
The third prince nodded vigorously, "Yes!"
The eldest princess sighed, thinking that her mother should be convinced that she lost to Empress Zhen.
Just a few words from her made her father lose his temper, and she also taught her father who was angry obediently.
In the entire palace, no empress had this ability.
Like a tamer who tamed a ferocious beast, Empress Zhen seemed particularly difficult to mess with because she tamed her father, the fierce beast.
Ruan was even more stunned.
She knew that her daughter was favored, even more than the former Concubine Li Guifei.
But she didn't know that favored could no longer be used to describe her daughter.
How could she be described with just one word "favored"? She dared to speak like this to the emperor, and the emperor was not angry at all, and seemed to be enjoying it. This was simply worshipping her sister Yue as an ancestor. It
was so scary!
In the next month, the emperor stayed in Hexi Palace almost every day. After experiencing the Sixth Prince's night noises, flatulence, and inability to land, the emperor became more and more inseparable from... the Sixth Prince.
This morning, he even asked Wang Dequan quietly: "Do you think I will be discovered if I secretly bring the Sixth Prince to court?"
He is now skilled in washing the Sixth Prince's butt and changing his diapers. It is no exaggeration to say that if he can feed the Sixth Prince like a wet nurse, he will not hand the child to others.
He can take care of it alone.
It's just a bit of a waste of time.
Yue'er likes to sleep with her child at night, saying that children who sleep with their biological parents will feel more secure, and their emotions will be more stable when they grow up, and they will be good at expressing their feelings.
So if Emperor Xuanwu wants to sleep with Jiang Xinyue, there must be a Sixth Prince in between.
Every hour, the little dumpling needs to drink milk and change diapers.
At first, Jiang Xinyue did it herself, but after two days, her waist and legs ached, and she almost fainted during the day due to lack of sleep.
The emperor felt distressed and had no choice but to take on this important task. He was mainly afraid that calling someone once an hour would disturb Jiang Xinyue's sleep, so he could only get up quietly to do these things.
In just one month, the weight that had grown on Jiang Xinyue by eating confinement meals quickly disappeared.
But he had no complaints. He missed the Sixth Prince very much if he didn't visit him for a day.
Jiang Xinyue analyzed this from a psychological perspective and called it "paternal attachment."
As we all know, fatherly and motherly love are the most selfless, unrequited, and great love in the world.
Jiang Xinyue kept Emperor Xuanwu in Hexi Palace for a month so that he could do everything concerning the Sixth Prince himself.
When he was good at everything including but not limited to changing diapers and coaxing the child to sleep, she asked Nanny Xiang and Xi Que to deliberately be clumsy in holding the Sixth Prince.
This way, the Emperor would feel that no one else could take care of his son, whom he had carefully raised, and that he was the best.
He would be disgusted with others touching his child and feel that no one could take care of him as well as he could.
He put all his energy into the Sixth Prince. Apart from the things that the Emperor should do, how could he have the energy to do anything else?
The concubines in the harem complained?
That would not reach his ears. They all complained to the Empress.