Chapter 55: The Cat Substitutes for the Prince
Prince Su personally went to the gate of the palace to welcome Princess Su and several children. When he saw Princess Su, Prince Su asked about her well-being.
Qi Jingyan stood beside the couple with his younger brothers and sisters, and the family was having a great time.
"Jingyao, I have already had people preparing for the conferment of the title of Queen. In a few days, you will be my Queen and the Queen Mother of Daxia."
Chu Jingyao is the name of Princess Su.
Princess Su smiled and said, "I will obey the emperor in everything."
Prince Su laughed heartily and pulled Princess Su into the palace, followed by their three children and children from other concubines. By evening, everyone in the capital knew that the new emperor loved his wife and was a good man who was upright and loved and doted on his wife.
Her husband was first a prince and then an emperor, and she also had two sons and a daughter. Everyone in the capital envied Princess Su's good fortune.
Unmarried girls prayed to God every day, hoping that they could marry a husband like the new emperor like Princess Su.
The marriage tree is hung with red silk.
But five days later, the red silk was urgently removed and the ceremony of crowning the queen was also called off.
In Kunning Palace, where empresses of all generations lived, Qi Jinghao broke down and cried. The concubine was at a loss. She wanted to comfort him but didn't know what to say.
"Hao'er, don't cry. Isn't this good? When mother becomes the queen, you will be your father's only legitimate son. Then..."
"Shut up!"
Qi Jinghao's eyes were red, and he stared at the concubine with the same eyes as if he was the enemy who killed his mother. "My mother is the Princess Su! Not a shameless and ungrateful woman like you!"
"My mother took you in out of kindness, but you seduced her husband and took her child. I will not let you go!"
The concubine felt a tightness in her chest, "What are you talking about, silly child? I am your mother..."
Qi Jinghao didn't want to talk to her anymore, so he pushed her aside and ran out of Kunning Palace without looking back.
The concubine asked anxiously, "Hao'er, where are you going?"
Qi Jinghao didn't answer her, he ran towards the imperial study.
In the imperial study, Prince Su was reviewing memorials. After the identity of Prince Su's wife as a person from Northern Chu was revealed, the ministers in the court talked about it a lot, and memorials were presented to his desk like snowflakes.
Prince Su was worried about Su Song, and he only reviewed half of it in the whole morning.
Counting the days, Susong should be returning. I wonder if he has obtained the jade seal from Qi Yunzhou and completed the task he assigned.
"Your Highness, you cannot enter. You can only enter after I inform you..."
There was a commotion outside the house, and Prince Su frowned, "Let's go see what's going on? Who's making the noise outside?"
The chief eunuch hurried out to take a look. Seeing that it was Qi Jinghao, he hurriedly said, "Your Highness, what are you doing..."
Qi Jinghao interrupted him, "I want to see my father!"
The eunuch knew why Qi Jinghao wanted to see Prince Su. Just as he was about to persuade him to calm down, he heard Prince Su's voice coming from the imperial study, "Let him in."
Qi Jinghao immediately walked around the eunuch and entered the house. He glared at Prince Su without saying a word.
Prince Su reviewed the memorial without even looking up. "Tell me, what do you want from me?"
"If you want me to release Chu Jingyao and those two children, then don't bother telling me."
Qi Jinghao stiffened his neck and asked, "Why? Father, Mother is your first wife, and my elder brother and sister are your children. Why do you want to..."
"Chu Jingyao is from Northern Chu."
Prince Su said calmly, "She is a daughter of the Northern Chu royal family. It is impossible for the Queen of Daxia to be a Northern Chu person, and it is even more impossible for the future Crown Prince to have Northern Chu blood!"
Qi Jinghao sneered, "Father, you said that we can't let someone from Northern Chu become queen. When you married my mother, did you ever consider this day?"
"Don't say you haven't thought about the day you'd become emperor. Didn't you marry my mother so you could use the power of Northern Chu to return to the capital someday?"
"presumptuous!"
Prince Su said angrily: "How dare you talk to me like that, you rebellious son!"
"That's what I'm saying," Qi Jinghao said stubbornly. "You colluded with Northern Chu to plot power and usurp the throne, which is disloyalty as a minister. You imprisoned my elder brother and sister, and even wanted to kill them, which is unkindness as a father. You secretly exchanged my mother's child with a concubine, deceiving her for half her life, which is unkindness as a husband..."
“That’s enough!”
Prince Su was furious, his face gloomy, "Come here, drag the Second Prince away and put him in jail!"
The eunuchs outside were extremely anxious, but they had to obey Prince Su's orders. Fortunately, the concubine arrived in time and quickly appeased the angry Prince Su.
The concubine is Prince Su's true love, and Prince Su still listens to her words.
Qi Jinghao was the child that the concubine desperately gave birth to. After calming down, Prince Su was no longer as angry as before.
"Okay, since your mother has spoken well of you, I'll let it go this time. Don't talk nonsense like that next time."
Qi Jinghao was not convinced and was about to say something when the concubine hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, I have thought about it. After all, my sister was once your princess consort and took good care of me. Jingyan and Jingyin are of royal blood."
"Why not lock the mother and her two children up in the palace? Forbid them from leaving the palace. Have their food and clothing delivered to them. This way, the people will praise the emperor for his kindness."
After saying that, the concubine gave Qi Jinghao a look. Qi Jinghao hesitated for a moment and said to Prince Su, "Father, I was too impulsive just now. Mother... Chu Jingyao has raised me for more than ten years. I was impulsive..."
"Don't worry, father. From now on, this son is no longer Chu Jingyao's child, but my child."
Qi Jinghao said "mother" while looking at the concubine.
The concubine was extremely excited. She tugged at Prince Su's clothes with a pleading look on her face.
Prince Su sighed, "Forget it, I know you and your son are thinking of Chu Jingyao's kindness, so I will do as you say."
Qi Jinghao's face lit up with joy, and he quickly knelt down to express his gratitude, then hurried to the prison to bring Chu Jingyao and the other two out.
The concubine was in a low mood, "Your Majesty, do you think I did something wrong?"
Back then, Prince Su was just a prince. In order to get help from Northern Chu, he married Chu Jingyao as his princess.
Later, the concubine entered the palace. In order to make her son a legitimate son, she begged Prince Su to help her replace the prince with a cat, and replaced the boy among the twins born by Chu Jingyao.
The concubine wanted her child to be taught by a woman like Chu Jingyao. After all, the women raised by the royal family were not comparable to her.
If Qi Jinghao was not Chu Jingyao's child, Chu Jingyao would only fulfill her duties as a mistress, and anything more would be impossible.
They would even deliberately make people raise useless illegitimate children.
I have seen that none of the children born to concubines have become successful, and even though Qi Jinghao is a playboy, he is a playboy who is both civil and military.
Bei Chu was planning on Prince Su becoming emperor one day and making a child with Bei Chu royal blood the crown prince, so they married Chu Jingyao to help Prince Su.
Prince Su comforted her, "I don't blame you, you did it for Hao'er."
"After all, you are Hao'er's biological mother. He will figure it out after a while."
The concubine nodded with tears in her eyes. She leaned against Prince Su, and where Prince Su couldn't see, her eyes were fierce.
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