The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

The sudden arrival of the Emperor and Empress suddenly changed the atmosphere of the flower-viewing banquet.

A junior official who had just been transferred here could not help but whisper to his colleague: "No wonder Miss Zhu wore such an outfit, it turned out that it was prepared for this. She is worthy of being the daughter of the governor's family. Jane is in the emperor's heart, much better than the rest of us."

His local colleague was a local who had worked under Governor Zhu for two or three years. Upon hearing this, he told him, "Miss Zhu has her heart set on the army. She dresses like this every day. It seems to me that even the Governor's family didn't expect that His Majesty and His Majesty would come..."

"Governor Zhu" indeed did not expect that the emperor and empress would come in person.

He had no intention of interfering with the flower-viewing banquet from the beginning, so naturally he didn't know how much preparation Madam Jia had made for today's banquet. After all, she was not sure whether the Emperor and Empress would suddenly arrive on a whim, but she still made the necessary preparations.

Everyone arrived at the parade ground.

Seeing that Miss Zhu was recommended to take the test, the men and women of similar age at the table could no longer sit still and asked the governor's mansion for bows and arrows and other items so that they could "join in the fun."

The Governor's Mansion would naturally not refuse. Today, by chance, they could send their own daughter to be in front of the Emperor and the Empress. However, they could not stop other young masters and young ladies from showing themselves, otherwise, wouldn't it seem that their family was the only powerful one in this city?

And Miss Zhu herself doesn't care. She is very confident and believes that she will be the most outstanding one today.

"Father, Mother, my daughter is late."

Princess Shou'an hurried to the stands beside the parade ground of the Governor's Mansion. Her cheeks were slightly flushed and her breathing was a little rapid. After she saluted Xie Yuzhen and the others, she stood beside them.

"It's not too late, not too late. How are you? Are you feeling better?" Xie Ruizhen asked intimately.

Princess Shou'an nodded and said, "Thank you for your concern, mother. My daughter is fine now."

As she spoke, she expressed her guilt again: "It's all my daughter's fault... I promised to accompany mother, but..."

Seeing this, Xie Yuzhen smiled and comforted her, "How can I blame you for this?"

Princess Shou'an has always been in poor health, and she had a cough and fever last night. Xie Yuzhen originally planned to let her stay in the palace to recuperate, but Princess Shou'an insisted that she only had some minor ailments and would be fine after a rest, so she was late again.

He comforted her with just a few words. Xie Ruizhen's ability to speak softly to others has greatly improved. Seeing Princess Shou'an leaning on him with affection as if she were his own daughter, Xie Ruizhen couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

What a lovable child.

If she could be less calculating and less ambitious, Yuanjun and I would be able to tolerate her.

Unfortunately, people always choose their own paths.

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Standing on the street outside Prince Gong's Mansion, Xie Yi carefully chose a time for himself, wondering whether he should visit Prince Gong in a proper manner through the main gate, or simply bring people over the wall to catch him off guard.

After much thought, Xie Yi considered that the "Marquis of Yongjia" should be accompanying the emperor and empress in the palace in Northern Xinjiang, so he finally decided to climb over the wall of the backyard of Prince Gong's Mansion.

After carefully avoiding the spikes on the palace wall and the traps under the wall, Xie Yi made his way to the main courtyard of Prince Gong's Mansion unscathed.

To say "touched" is not quite appropriate. He did not try too hard to avoid the servants from the palace on the road, but there were so few people in Prince Gong's palace that he hardly met any along the way.

The previous Prince Gong was the emperor's brother. Unfortunately, he was injured and paralyzed in his early years and had no heir for his entire life. Before their good father could find a princess to take care of him, the late emperor passed away.

The emperor who ascended the throne later didn't care much about the marriage of his half-brother. He even said frankly that he was pure and had no worldly needs, so the princess and the like...there was no need to harm girls from good families.

He completely ignored the wishes of some people who were still willing to have a princess from their own family even though Prince Gong was disabled and incapable of doing anything.

of course.

The person who was ignored even more thoroughly by the emperor was the former Prince Gong himself.

In a fit of rage, the old Prince Gong simply pushed his wheelchair to become a monastic. At the age when his most inhumane brother was still happily flirting with married women, the old Prince Gong had already taken so-called elixirs and magic drugs, which transformed him from a paralytic with a decent appearance into a skinny old man with a monkey-like face.

Naturally.

The old Prince Gong, who had eaten too many golden elixirs, was on the verge of death.

At that time, the emperor had just had his precious daughter Lu Weiyuan. According to his own words, he was soft-hearted for a moment and decided to give his third son to Prince Gong's Mansion as an heir. As soon as Prince Gong passed away, he would let the third prince inherit his title and palace so that after Prince Gong's death, he could enjoy the incense during the holidays.

As for the wishes of Prince Gong and the third prince himself, these were not within the emperor's consideration.

The old Prince Gong was paralyzed, and he took elixirs that completely crippled him. He is sickly and will not live long; and the third prince was born weak, and it looks like he won't live long either. What a fate between father and son!

The emperors of Dasheng were always stingy with titles. If the late emperor had not deliberately wanted to check and balance and disgust the Empress Dowager Hu and the emperor, he would not have made his only two remaining sons princes in one go. Although this happened a long time ago, the emperor still held a grudge in his heart and was determined to get something back from these two royal families.

Now, the Gong Prince's Mansion is on the verge of extinction, and the other prince's mansion, the Jing Prince's Mansion, is not having an easy time either. The whole family is like quails, very quiet, and dares not to show up for anything. They even dare not have too many children, for fear that one of them will be kicked into a pit by the emperor by accident.

There was only a young prince and a little princess in Prince Jing's mansion. They were slightly older than Xie Yi. He had seen them several times when he went to the imperial study to study, but he was not familiar with them.

But when he heard the voice of Prince Jing coming from Prince Gong's study, he was not surprised, he just exclaimed, "As expected."