Chapter 388 Enlightenment
It is said that children grow up fast. After having a child, it seemed that not much time had passed since the child was one year old. Then time flew by like a white horse passing by. Shen Qing only watched the child walk, talk, and speak fluently. Several years passed like this, and it was the New Year again.
The New Year's Day in recent years has been very lively, mainly because there are more children. Xiaoliu is growing older and older, and Zhaohua Palace has become much more lively. After this year's New Year's Day, Shen Qing suddenly realized that Xiaoliu is also five years old.
At the age of five, it was time for Xuanyuan Ling to be raised.
Although Xiaoliu was raised in Zhaohua Palace by Xuanyuan Ling for 300 of the 365 days, it didn't matter whether he went to Zhaohua Palace or not, but the third prince, the fourth prince, and the seventh prince were all raised in his care, so according to the rules, Xiaoliu had to be sent there.
Shen Qing didn't feel reluctant, it's not like she couldn't see him anymore, it's just that she suddenly felt like sending a child to kindergarten, a little reluctant, but also a little like it was time to let go, the child had grown up.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Xuanyuan Ling announced this at a palace banquet.
There were some incidents in the court in the past few years, but they were nothing more than natural disasters. There was also some unrest in the border areas two years ago, but it settled down after being suppressed. Generally speaking, it is still stable, and the palace is also quite stable. Nothing has happened in the past few years.
Chen Qing is still in favor and has the power to manage the harem. There is nothing dirty between Defei and her. The concubines thought that Defei and Xianfei were raising the third prince and the sixth prince respectively, and both of them were in charge of the harem, so they were always not in harmony with each other. Who knew that they didn't interfere with each other. The two big heads didn't make any moves, and the little concubines under them didn't dare to make trouble. People like the queen didn't seem to make any moves either. Isn't it very stable?
The harem is so stable that most of the concubines have let it go. It is clear that the emperor will not look for anyone else. At the beginning, they all wondered how long the emperor could favor Concubine Xian. Now, it seems that there is no need to think about it. After so many years, the emperor has never been tired of Concubine Xian. It is really... It makes people feel envious and helpless.
It would be fine if they had children, but now the original concubines are getting older and have no desire for favor, but their desire for children is growing stronger and stronger.
Especially Chu Linglong, after all, she had lost two children, and she cared more about children than the concubines who had never been pregnant.
Now, looking at the face of the Sixth Prince, which was very similar to that of the Emperor, and then looking at the Concubine Xian who was sitting very close to the Emperor, she and Shen Qing were several seats apart, and Shen Qing would not look at her. Only she could look up to Shen Qing, but she had seen Shen Qing being favored since she entered the palace, and then, getting better and better, and she was implicated by her twice... Now she didn't even have a child of her own...
Thinking of this again, Chu Linglong lowered her eyes, but fortunately, the eldest prince has made considerable achievements in the past two years.
Chen Qing did not notice that Chu Linglong was looking at her. Her attention was on Xiao Liu. She knew that Xuanyuan Ling was going to announce that Xiao Liu would be expelled from Zhaohua Palace today, but it was only after she really heard it that she felt like sending her child to kindergarten.
After the palace banquet, Chen Qing and Xuanyuan Ling returned to Zhaohua Palace. Xiao Liu was not willing to leave tonight, and stuck to Chen Qing after returning from the palace banquet.
Xuanyuan Ling watched helplessly as the mother and son had such a good relationship, one acting coquettishly while the other hugged and coaxed her.
It wasn't the first time Xuanyuan Ling had seen this. He didn't know when it started, but the child seemed to have suddenly become smart and started to act like a spoiled child towards Shen Qing.
Xuanyuan Ling looked at it for a while and couldn't help but said: "Chengyun, you can go down and rest now."
Xiao Chengyun didn't look very happy.
Seeing his little appearance, Chen Qing said, "I won't stay at Zhaohua Palace at night after tomorrow. I can't bear to leave Xiaoliu, so let Xiaoliu stay for a while."
Chen Qing opened the door and saw that Xuanyuan Ling loved the child, so he didn't say anything. He just watched the mother and son being affectionate for a while. He frowned as he watched, and only asked someone to send the child away when he saw the child yawn.
"Xiao Liu is a boy after all. I just realized that he seems to like to act like a spoiled child in front of you." He was used to it before. After all, he had watched him grow up. This child liked to act like a spoiled child in front of Shen Qing for a long time. He didn't care about it. Now he is going to move out of Zhaohua Palace.
After moving out of Zhaohua Palace, he felt like he had grown up all of a sudden, and he no longer cared about this aspect.
Shen Qing looked at him unhappily after hearing what he said: "Then Your Majesty, please discipline him well, and don't let him learn bad things from me."
Xuanyuan Ling was helpless: "Is this what I mean?"
"I think that's what the Emperor meant."
Xuanyuan Ling was even more helpless. Well, she had become more and more unbridled in the past few years. Anyway, since she said yes, he couldn't deny it. He thought in his heart that Xiaoliu would move out of Zhaohua Palace in the future, and there would be people to discipline her.
It's not just about schoolwork. A prince needs to be good at both civil and martial arts. Seeing as how he likes to act like a spoiled brat now, Xuanyuan Ling has already decided to send Xiaoliu to the martial arts training ground to have some good training.
Although he thought so in his heart, he still had to flatter Shen Qing: "It's my fault."
"Perfunctory."
Xuanyuan Ling was not annoyed when he was exposed. He knew that Shen Qing was not really angry: "Okay, let's go to bed."
During the New Year period, Shen Qing was busy with some things, so the two of them hadn't been close for a few days. Today, they naturally couldn't help but get intimate. Over the years, Xuanyuan Ling and Shen Qing have become more and more harmonious. They thought that it was nothing new after so many years, but it wasn't. After getting to know each other, they knew how the other person reacted to a look, and for Xuanyuan Ling, it was a sense of accomplishment.
When the two of them fell asleep leaning against each other as usual, Xuanyuan Ling also leaned against her as usual. In the past few years, when he had government affairs or other things to do, he would not go to Zhaohua Palace for ten days a month. Now, if he did not go to Zhaohua Palace at night, it would be like he had gone on a long journey and would not return home. Without her by his side, he always felt that the quilt was not warm enough. In the summer, he felt that he could not get used to being hugged by her without her complaining that it was too hot.
The two people in Zhaohua Palace fell asleep soundly, but they didn't know that someone couldn't sleep tonight.
The Queen seemed to have lived a peaceful life in the past four years, but it would be fine if nothing happened to Shen Qing, but she had to worry about whatever happened to Shen Qing.
The Sixth Prince is finally going to start school. Over the years, the other princes have been with Xuanyuan Ling, and the Sixth Prince has been raised in Zhaohua Palace. Xuanyuan Ling has always been in Zhaohua Palace, and now that the Sixth Prince has started school, he has also left Zhaohua Palace.
"You said that the Sixth Prince will be enrolled in school. Will the other princes be able to see the Emperor's favoritism towards the mother and son of Zhaohua Palace?" The Queen asked Jinzhi.
Jinzhi has been watching for so many years. Honestly speaking, from her perspective, she couldn't understand how the emperor could favor a woman for so long. No woman in the harem could understand the methods used by this virtuous concubine.
"How could we not see it? We saw it before. But the Sixth Prince had been kept in Zhaohua Palace. Not to mention the other concubines, the princes could have sensed it in their hearts."
Children and concubines are actually the same. They all want to be praised in front of their father. It was fine when the Sixth Prince was in Zhaohua Palace before, but now that he is going to school, the other princes will see that the emperor is partial to them. If something happens between the children in the future, the relationship between the concubines will naturally not be as stable as it is now.
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