February 8th of the Yimao year

The emperor had already sent officials to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth, the country, and the ancestral temple. Today was the crown prince's enthronement ceremony. Yao Niang helped Gao Xuance put on a crimson gauze robe, which was the garment worn by the crown prince. When worn on Gao Xuance, he looked so noble that people dared not look directly at him.

Two moments before sunrise, he was about to go to Jianji Hall to receive the worship of civil and military officials. Yao Niang helped him adjust his collar. Because he was too tall, she was about to tiptoe, but saw Gao Xuance bending over.

Yao Niang smiled and kissed his earlobe unexpectedly, which made Gao Xuan Ce very excited, but now was not the time to think about these things.

Gao Xuance put on his clothes and hat, and accompanied by the three teachers and three tutors, he went to Jianji Hall. At sunrise, Emperor Jianzhang came in a sedan chair wearing the imperial robes. The ceremonial officer shouted "Bai".

Gao Xuance bowed down along with all the civil and military officials, and Yuan Fu was holding the imperial edict, and the Minister of the Central Secretariat and others were announcing the decree to his southeast.

Gao Xuance did not listen to the long paragraph above. He only heard "My third son Gao Xuance is a man of wisdom and noble character. He has made numerous military achievements in the eastern expedition against the Donghu and the western defeat of the Xirong. He is naturally filial and prudent... I hereby appoint him as the crown prince. How respectful."

Finally, the thing he had been longing for fell upon him. Gao Xuance said calmly, "I thank the Lord for his great grace. I wish our Emperor will live forever."

Emperor Jianzhang was very happy. He asked Gao Xuance to sit beside him and accepted the worship from all the civil and military officials.

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After enthroning the crown prince, Emperor Jianzhang held a grand banquet for all his ministers. Luo Zhizheng had returned to Beijing to resume his official post. He sat here, and people came to congratulate him openly and secretly. Luo Jingxi was also attending the banquet in the palace for the first time, and his face was filled with suppressed excitement.

The two heard some officials discussing, "I heard His Majesty mention to his attendants that I had named the Prince of Chen to tell you who the Crown Prince was. Why do some people not understand?"

After hearing this, Luo Zhizheng looked at Gao Xuance on the stage. He stood out from the crowd among the others, and even looked younger and more decisive than the emperor.

From his selfish point of view as a minister, the country does need an emperor who is smart and capable and knows how to use people. But as for his son-in-law, he is too powerful and he, as a father, cannot protect his daughter.

I heard Luo Jingxi pointing at the platform and saying, "Look, isn't that our nephew?"

Yes, there is also a Chengyun. Luo Zhizheng breathed a sigh of relief. The child looks very much like Yao Niang, and is even more handsome than his father. Now he is raised in the palace by the emperor and is loved very much. At least, this also adds weight to Yao Niang.

The foundation of the country had been settled, and the ministers were relieved. Moreover, everyone in the court and the country knew Gao Xuance's ability. He did not need the support of any famous generals. He had his own way of ranking and arranging the troops, and he lived and ate with the soldiers on the front line, so he was quite prestigious.

Yao Niang was also in the East Palace accepting kowtows from everyone. She was only in her twenties. When she was the Princess of Chen, she felt uneasy seeing people in their seventies or eighties kowtowing to her. Now, even the ladies of the imperial family, her mother, sister-in-law, Xu Qingrong, Mu Wantong and others had to kowtow to her.

She looked at Bai Ying calmly, and Bai Ying smiled and shouted "Get up".

So, everyone sat on both sides. When she was a prince's wife, she wore a nine-翟 crown, and now that she was a crown princess, she wore a nine-羽 four-凤 crown. The style of her ceremonial dress was even opposite to that of the empress.

Xu Qingrong and Mu Wantong who were sitting below didn't know what to say. Xu Qingrong was about to leave for the fiefdom. The court officials who once supported King Zhou now wanted King Zhou to go to the fiefdom as soon as possible, fearing that if he stayed in the capital he would threaten the prince. This made Xu Qingrong want to cry but had no tears.

What made Hong Shuyi even more angry was that she had originally planned to stay with Xu Qingrong and manipulate her in the future to gain her own position. Little did she know that when King Xiaozhou was appointed as a vassal, she would also follow him to Henan Weihui.

She didn't enter the palace to be a small lady-in-waiting. Hong Shuyi was simply furious.

Yao Niang didn't know about their tricks. It's just that Hong Shuyi used to be quite charming and attractive, with a pair of snow-white arms that were very alluring. However, because her requirements were too high, she couldn't find someone she liked, and her age also consumed too much of her time in the palace.

She was already very fat when she entered the palace again, and now she had to pretend to be so next to Xu Qingrong. She was obviously only thirty years old, but she looked like she was forty, very old. Her eyes were always blurry due to long-term needlework, and she squinted when she looked at people.

It is said that Xu Qingrong is going to take Hong Shuyi to Henan to be a vassal. Yao Niang is also relieved. This woman is best at using the method of killing people with a borrowed knife, and she is very patient, which is unusual.

Looking at Mu Wantong again, she was really interested and actually took the initiative to tell him that Xing'er was involved in the incident with Concubine Yan back then.

Xing'er has already left the palace, and now Lady Mo is very close to them in private, so Yao Niang is also relieved.

Little did she know that Mu Wantong was panicking. Of course, she had always wanted the Fourth Prince to become the emperor, so that she and her husband would no longer be inferior to others. However, she saw that the Fourth Prince was determined to become a vassal, and he even had a quarrel with her and slept with someone else.

She was worried that the couple would be distracted, so she had to agree and even agreed with her husband.

Seeing Luo Yaoniang sitting on the throne of the Crown Princess, she became jealous again.

Mrs. Jia was beside her and couldn't help but personally serve her tea: "Princess, please have some."

After handing over the tea, Madam Jia also smiled bitterly. She didn't know what luck it was that she got pregnant after spending a night with the Fourth Prince. However, she still didn't dare to fight with Mu Wantong, and had to obey the Fourth Prince's orders to look after the Prince's wife for him.

Many people are loved by others, but she is the only one who is not loved by anyone.

Look at the Crown Princess again. Countless people are flirting with her and everyone is fawning on her.

After meeting everyone, Yao Niang went to the inner room, changed her clothes and came out to meet her family. This time, all her family members came, even her granddaughter-in-law Song Jie'er, who was a generation younger than her, came.

"Brother Hao's daughter-in-law is pregnant, why did she come over? Please sit down quickly." Seeing her bulging belly, Yao Niang was very worried.

Wang smiled and said, "I'm fine."

Yao Niang asked someone to bring Xun'er out. When this boy was born, none of them had seen him before, and Yu held him in her arms and refused to let go.

She looked at her daughter and said, "I am so happy for the Crown Princess when I heard the news."

"What did mother say?" Yao Niang actually didn't want to mention it. Until the last moment, people can't say what's really happened to them, just like Emperor Tianlu in his previous life, who died suddenly after sitting on the throne for one year.

This strong sense of insecurity and distrust of the world made her happy, but not very strongly.

But seeing that her family was so happy, she didn't want to throw cold water on them, so she asked people to prepare very generous rewards. Even Sister Song received the most expensive tribute silks, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings from the palace.

On the way back, all Song Jie'er heard was praise and even envy for her Fifth Aunt.

But when I got off the car, I saw Uncle Jingfa's concubine, Aunt Yu. Yu was originally just a concubine, like a plaything, but because the first wife, Xiao Jiang, fell ill and died, the second wife made her her legal wife. Of course, everyone knew that this was because Yu Yan had a cousin who was the Crown Princess, otherwise, why would Uncle Jingfa marry her.

She was good, although she did not enter the palace this time, she still came here to show her courtesy.

Yu Yan's promotion from concubine to legal wife was personally recognized and even arranged by the Jiang family, the original wife's family. She also has an eldest son. Although she had suffered in the past, she now feels that her hard work has paid off.

But even though Sister Song was not used to it, she was not stupid and naturally would not say it out loud.

For a while, Luo's relatives came to visit, including Song Jie'er's stepmother's family, the Dou family. The Dou family and the Luo family were old relatives, but now that their family was not prominent, they wanted to visit more and more.

However, Mrs. Dou was displeased when she saw Sister Song. This child was extremely cunning and had caused her daughter to suffer many losses, so that her daughter and her son-in-law still have a bad relationship.

How could Sister Song give the Dou family a good look? She had a favored aunt, the Crown Princess, an uncle and father-in-law who had been awarded, and a grandfather who was the Prime Minister. She didn't care about the Dou family, but of course she could show off the Crown Princess's love for her.

"Come to think of it, you are also my granddaughter. Back then, your mother, wow, was just as pretty as Xie Daoyuan. If she hadn't been engaged to the Wang family before choosing a partner, who knows who would be her partner today? This is also fate. Also, in your family, it is indeed old man Luoge, your parents-in-law, and your mother's brother and sister-in-law who favor her. Otherwise, you wouldn't be a family with my daughter. No matter what, An'er has a bright future." Mrs. Dou said this to taunt her.

Although these words were meant to be provocative and even malicious, Sister Song knew that they were not completely false.

Her grandmother, Ms. Wang's family, had told her that her mother was the most outstanding girl in the Luo family. But who would have thought that in the end, it would be her fifth aunt who was chosen.

My maternal grandfather, who is also my current grandfather, was indeed very partial to my fifth aunt. He favored her so much that he treated even my own granddaughter, and my sixth aunt who often came home to visit, coldly.

According to my father, my mother was extremely beautiful until the last moment...