Chapter 387 The Emperor's Determination
Huang, the wife of the second branch of the Jiang family, was so happy that her son could marry a princess.
When she was smiling at the door to welcome the guests, Huang's younger brother Huang Xicai timidly squeezed to her side and said, "Sister, what happened to the matter you asked for me? What happened to Yan Yu in our family? Did the Empress really keep her in the palace as a maid?"
Was it under the guise of being a maid, to train her or something?
After all, they were relatives, so she wouldn't be so cruel, would she?
If he let her out of the palace when she was 25, his daughter would be useless.
Huang pushed him and rolled her eyes impatiently: "I told you at the beginning that the Jiang family would not send a daughter into the palace. The Empress Dowager is enough. Why send another one in to compete with her for favor? Your brother-in-law even scolded me for this. How could you be so stupid? Why do you want to offend the Empress Dowager? Fortunately, my son is very capable and the Empress Dowager didn't bother with us. Otherwise, if my son couldn't become a prince consort, I would skin you alive."
She was not a brother-supporting demon and did not have the habit of sacrificing herself for her brother's family.
"I'm not asking you to offend the Empress."
Huang Xicai pointed at the princess' sedan chair that had already arrived at the door of the house: "Isn't the mother of the eldest princess the Concubine Liang? Our Yanyu serves in the palace of Concubine Liang. Sister, the eldest princess is your daughter-in-law. Can you let her enter the palace and ask Yanyu to come out? Isn't it okay that I don't let her compete with the Empress for favor?"
Originally, he thought that the selection of beauties was held every three years, and at least a hundred beauties would be selected to enter the palace. Why can't his daughter be included?
Moreover, the Huang family and the Jiang family are related by marriage. If Yan'er enters the palace, she can help her a little. Wouldn't family members be more caring?
In the end, why was she sent to be a palace maid?
Huang rolled her eyes: "Do you think the palace is your home? You can come in and go out as you please? If you dare to tell this to the eldest princess, I will peel off your skin."
She couldn't afford to lose face.
The carriage of the eldest princess's wedding could no longer be seen, but the sound of musical instruments was still heard, and the streets were crowded with people who came to witness the grand scene of the eldest princess's wedding.
Concubine Liang finally stopped crying and laughed happily again. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Jiang Xinyue and the emperor: "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty. It is my greatest wish in this life that Mingyu can marry a good man. Now it has come true. I am really happy."
After she passes away, she doesn't have to worry about the eldest princess being bullied.
The Yu family has fallen, and the prince will be her support in the future.
As long as the mother and daughter are of one mind with the Empress, the Crown Prince will remember their kindness when he grows up.
Concubine Shu looked at Concubine Liang with some envy. She touched her empty belly, knowing that she would never have a child in her lifetime.
The Emperor would never favor an old and ugly concubine like her.
No!
Now that the Emperor has the Empress, she may never enter the harem again in her life, and no one will have the chance to get pregnant again.
The Emperor's mind is unpredictable, and no one can say whether the Empress will still be the only one to enjoy the Emperor's favor in ten years.
But there is one thing they all know very well, that is, the Emperor's feelings for the Empress are different.
Even if there are other concubines in the harem who are favored in the future, they will never be able to shake Jiang Xinyue's position.
Once the Great Yan Dynasty appoints a crown prince, he cannot be deposed at will unless he commits the heinous crime of patricide, even by the emperor.
The early appointment of the crown prince has already shown the emperor's determination.
He has given the empress and the crown prince a guarantee. Even if he is blinded by lust and falls in love with another concubine one day, no one can replace the crown prince.
As long as the crown prince is there, the empress's throne is as stable as Mount Tai.
As long as the emperor's brain is not eaten, he should understand that among the few remaining princes, only the crown prince can take on the heavy responsibility. No matter how foolish he is, he will not allow anyone to kill the crown prince.
Thinking of this, Concubine Shu suddenly felt bright again. She turned her eyes to the prince who was held in the arms of Nanny Lu. She clapped her hands with a strange smile and wanted to reach out to hug him: "Your Highness, can Auntie Shu hug you?"
The little prince smiled brilliantly, opened his two little hands, and threw them into Concubine Shu's arms: "Smells good... Auntie... Smells good..."
Jiang Yuan was good at making incense. Since Jiang Xinyue gave birth to the little prince, she has been fumigated with fresh and light fragrance, which is harmless to children.
Even the clothes of Jiang Xinyue and the little prince are almost all steamed with the incense she made.
This is her preference, and Jiang Xinyue tries her best to satisfy it. The raw materials sent to her palace every month are of great value for her to make incense, and the things she makes are naturally better than those given as rewards.
The little prince especially likes Aunt Shufei, because she always has all kinds of pleasant scents on her.
Jiang Xinyue is not afraid that someone will tamper with the incense, because Jiang Yuan's sense of smell is more sensitive than that of the Roaring Sky Dog. She can smell if one ingredient is missing or more, and she has never made a mistake. She also
thought that after a while, when she gave birth to Xiaoqi, she would dispatch some palace maids between the ages of 18 and 20 who wanted to learn the craft of making incense to go to the palace of Shufei and let her teach them some skills. It depends on
Shufei's own wishes, whether to teach them some basics, or to teach them all her skills, so that those palace maids who are about to reach the age of maturity will have a skill to rely on when they leave the palace in the future.
Of course, if Concubine Shu is unwilling, she will not force it. There are also female officials in the palace who can make incense. Jiang Xinyue can arrange for the maids to go to the Shanggong Bureau to learn.
However, Concubine Shu came to Kunning Palace to complain before, saying that she had all the skills, but the eldest princess and the second princess were not good candidates for learning incense. She also joked and asked Jiang Xinyue to find a few people for her.
So she came up with this idea.
After becoming the queen, she asked her subordinates to sort out the list of maids in the palace, only to find that many maids did not want to leave the palace after they turned 25.
But the palace rules are here, and they have to leave.
If you don't want to leave the palace, there must be difficulties. Either there is no one outside, or you have no home to return to after leaving the palace. It's OK
if the family is well-off, it's not difficult to feed a mouth, at most they will be criticized a few times.
Poor families will sell their daughters who have left the palace and are older. As for where they are sold to? What they do? That's unknown, but the ending is not good. Jiang Xinyue thinks that these palace maids have spent their best youth in the deep palace, serving their masters with all their heart and soul, but in the end they face such a situation, which is too pitiful.
So she asked Shi Ruojun to learn martial arts, Zhang Xiuzhu to work in the kitchen, and Concubine Shu to make incense...
She wanted them to stand out and become role models, so as to tell those women who were bound by feudal dogmas that life is not just about getting married.
They can also shine their own light.
Why must
they rely on men? Relying on themselves may not mean that they will not have a more wonderful life.