The palace is magnificent with red walls and tiles, flying eaves and corners.
In the Pepper Room, you can hear a pin drop.
The eunuch who reported the news lowered his head and dared not breathe.
It was strange that he noticed that the queen was abnormal from the moment he stepped into the palace. It seemed that she had a serious illness and she looked less energetic than before.
When she heard that the emperor was coming here, she actually knocked over the teacup in her hand.
"Your Majesty?"
The queen closed her eyes and calmed her mind.
"I know, leave." As
soon as the eunuch left, the nanny beside her was panicked.
"Your Majesty, what should we do?"
"What are you panicking about!"
"Tell the subordinates to keep an eye on the one in the East Palace and don't let her cause trouble!"
The Crown Princess heard that the child was taken back to her parents' home by Chu Ning, so she came to the Pepper Room in a hurry. She was warned by the queen and beaten back.
The queen had a cold face and asked the nanny to put makeup on her to cover the fatigue under her eyes.
Since she learned that the child was mentally retarded, she has not had a day of peace.
At first, she rushed into the mansion of Duke Zhou, not caring about her brother's injury from the beating, and scolded him harshly.
She said frankly that he had hurt her badly.
Why did she have a grudge with Gu Fuju!
When he was still a small censor, he threw away Jiashan's newborn baby, but now that he became the Grand Tutor, why didn't he stop and wanted to kill Yu Tingwan!
She didn't even know about it!
Now, the Grand Tutor's Mansion and the Duke Shun's Mansion will not help the Eastern Palace.
The Queen was also angry that Duke Zhou was unreliable.
He got a brain-sick child and tried his best to replace the real bloodline of the royal family! It
sounded ridiculous to her.
But Duke Zhou had a gloomy face and listened to her scolding.
——"Kill them all? I am also following orders. You should ask the one sitting on the dragon throne."
——"As for the child...it is indeed my negligence. Let your brother make plans carefully. If the emperor finds out that his offspring is mentally retarded, the Eastern Palace will never be able to turn things around. Although he has shown his face, the child is different every day..."
This sentence is full of deep meaning.
Duke Zhou will arrange other things in private. All she has to do now is to wait.
It is impossible that there will be any sudden situation that can catch them off guard in just a few days.
The queen showed a decent smile and stood up to greet him.
As soon as she walked out of the palace gate, she saw Emperor Ying Qian sitting on a sedan chair. There were dragon patterns engraved on both sides of the shaft, and he looked majestic. More than 20 eunuchs carried it over, and palace maids were fanning and holding umbrellas on the side.
The queen was about to step forward, and she saw that the fifth prince Ying Yin was accompanying him.
She raised her eyelids and became inexplicably alert, but she didn't show it on her face.
When Emperor Ying Qian was helped down to the ground, the Empress came forward to pay her respects, and the golden phoenix
hairpin swayed with her movements: "Your Majesty." Emperor Ying Qian nodded.
Ying Yinze came forward and saluted respectfully: "Mother."
The Empress smiled: "Old Five is here too."
"I heard from the people below that you have a poor appetite, so I was worried. It happened that Old Five was here, so she came with me."
The Empress frowned: "How did such a small matter get to the Emperor?"
"How could I not value your health?"
Emperor Ying Qian looked at his wife like an ordinary husband, with a worried look on his face.
When she was young, the Empress might really think that this man cared about her.
But she is at this age, how can she not know how hypocritical Emperor Ying Qian is?
The only one he really cares about is Ning Suchan!
He married her because he didn't have the ability to compete with the previous emperor.
"It's fine with me."
Emperor Ying Qian didn't know whether he believed it or just pretended to do it. He took her hand and walked inside. When he passed a screen with a picture of a lady, he stopped. He
seemed to be sighing.
"This screen was given to my mother by my father. After my mother passed away, the nanny beside her gave it to you on her behalf."
This queen mother was Concubine Yue.
"I remember that when the prince was young, he fell and spilled ink on the corner, and he couldn't get it off. You scolded him and punished him severely, saying that he was disrespectful to the royal grandmother, and then put the screen into the storehouse for safekeeping."
After all, he was her own son, how could the queen really not care?
It's just that she had too many ambitions in her heart. She
was stunned at the screen, and her tone dropped: "I asked the servants below to put it back a few days ago. When I look at this screen, I will think of him."
Emperor Ying Qian: "After the prince passed away, I was afraid that you would not be able to get over that hurdle. These days, even I often feel dazed, as if the prince is still here. Let alone you."
"He is my first child, and I love him the most. But... he has a shallow relationship with my father and son."
The queen lowered her eyes and said nothing.
But she didn't believe a word of it in her heart!
Love the most?
He clearly loves Ying Yin!
Otherwise, why would he bring her to his side and teach her in person?
Didn't Emperor Ying Qian foresee that her son would not live long because of his weak body?
"Your Majesty cares about him, and it is worth it for Yi Ge'er to come to the world."
Emperor Ying Qian sighed, and after entering the palace, he sat down in the main seat and took the tea served by the nanny.
He moved the tea lid twice, but had no intention of drinking it.
"How is the little grandson now?"
The queen remained calm: "Everything is fine, but the child has lost his father since he was young, pitiful."
"He cried for a while just now, and I finally coaxed him to sleep. Do you want him to be brought to you for a look?"
Emperor Ying Qian heard this: "Forget it, so as not to wake him up."
He finally stated his main purpose.
"Although he is the heir of the crown prince, it is human nature that you value him more. But the crown princess is his biological mother. The child must always follow his biological mother."
"You have to worry about the harem and take care of the little grandson. How can you take care of both after a long time? Don't ruin your body."
"The crown princess is the daughter-in-law I chose, so she can take good care of her."
How could a child not be raised by her biological mother?
The queen suddenly raised her eyes.
The child has been raised by her for so long. The emperor didn't say anything before, so why did he intervene now?
She didn't believe that this matter had nothing to do with Ying Yin!
It was indeed Ying Yin's doing.
He knew better than anyone how unhappy Emperor Ying Qian was that the late emperor passed him to the current queen mother after Concubine Yue passed away.
He was just a little bit just right, and as expected, what the queen did made Emperor Ying Qian dislike him.
Ying Yin just half-lowered his head respectfully and said nothing.
He did a lot of things, such as sending people to pick up the crown princess who was imprisoned in the East Palace.
The queen was about to bite her teeth. Emperor Ying Qian looked like he was negotiating with her, but his tone did not allow her to refuse.
"Your Majesty, the Crown Princess suffered a lot during childbirth, and her body has not recovered yet."
She took a deep breath and was about to say something. But she saw a woman dressed as a palace maid suddenly ran in from outside and knelt upright at the feet of Emperor Ying Qian.
The queen frowned.
Eunuch Tu beside Emperor Ying Qian scolded: "How dare you be so rude in front of Your Majesty, come, drag her away."
The person raised his head.
Ying Yin seemed surprised: "Imperial sister-in-law?"
This sentence made everyone in the palace look at the woman.
The queen was panicked, her eyes were like knives.
The East Palace was full of her people, and the Crown Princess was imprisoned. How could she appear here?
Emperor Ying Qian leaned forward slightly: "Crown Princess, what are you doing?"
"Forgive my father for my sins. If the Crown Princess does not dress up as a palace maid, she will not be able to see you."
(End of this chapter)
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