Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

Yiqiu Palace is located to the west of Cheng'en Palace, and further west is the east wall of Daming Palace. It is a square palace with one main and two side parts.

Because the courtyard of the east side hall is close to the corridor, there are some flower trees more than one meter tall planted along the east wall, such as wintersweet, red plum, osmanthus and crabapple.

In autumn and winter, you don't have to stand on the corridor. Even if you stand on the west wall of Cheng'en Hall, you can still smell the faint floral fragrance coming from Yi Qiu East Hall.

——No wonder Aunt Weng has been thinking about it for a long time.

As soon as the prince entered Yiqiu Palace, Wang Xifeng realized that he might come to see her, so she hurriedly ordered people to put away the sticks and whips they usually played with, and ordered four palace maids to quickly dress up:

"Don't be so plain! It's New Year, be festive! Put on some rouge!"

Aunt Ji laughed as she listened, and whispered to Aunt Meng, "How clever!"

Aunt Meng also smiled and said hurriedly, "My master is here, I'll go comb my hair too." She hurriedly tidied herself up.

Only Nanny Ji slowly sat back beside Princess Heke, letting her look guiltily under the lamp at a book covered in the book cover of Zhongyong, but with the core copied from An'er's room.

The prince entered the East Hall.

Everyone, led by Meng Fanshuang and Xia Shouzhong, was busy paying respects to the Crown Prince. Princess Heke raised her head from the book she was immersed in, only to find that the Crown Prince was already standing in front of her.

The book was naturally collected.

Nanny Ji also apologized in a sheepish tone under the prince's angry gaze: "I was negligent."

Sighing, the prince looked at He Ke and Tao Ge'er hugging each other in surprise, and reluctantly asked Nanny Weng and Meng Fanshuang to take the siblings to play in the yard:

"It's very dark now. Don't run around. Be careful not to trip."

When his brothers and sisters were not around, he scolded, "Back then, Yongning, you let her watch these things!"

Nanny Ji smiled and turned around to flip through another storybook in the cupboard for the prince to read: "This book tells the story of a poor scholar who married the daughter of the prime minister and used his father-in-law's power to become a high-ranking official.

"Not only did we bring our parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, and younger sister here, we also brought our cousin and our childhood sweetheart, our neighbor.

"The Prime Minister's daughter actually took the initiative to take those two as his concubines!"

The prince was annoyed when he heard this: "This is nonsense..."

“After the princess finished reading, she asked the old servant, whether intentionally or unintentionally, if the poor boy married a princess, would he still dare to take a concubine?

"The old slave said, it depends on which princess it is.

"If it was Princess Yongning, if the prince consort even dared to have such a thought or said such a thing in his dream, I'm sure his whole family wouldn't see the sun tomorrow.

"But if it was the Princess of Runan in the previous dynasty, her husband would have taken in six concubines, and she was the one who arranged all of them.

"Later, her son was killed by the son born to one of her concubines, and she was finally killed secretly, and the emperor was deceived into believing that she died of illness.

"If it weren't for the fact that this princess had a loyal servant who escaped the clutches of her husband and the concubine, and risked his life to break into the palace to redress the princess's grievances, this foolish princess would have died in vain!"

Nanny Ji was still smiling, and handed the book on the table to the prince, saying, "So this one, the princess read and annotated it, you can take a look."

Pointing to a line of words on one of the pages: "Using the glory of your mother's family to support a pervert? Unfilial! Incompetent! Virtuous and virtuous are of no use!"

The prince was speechless.

He could never have imagined that this notebook was actually a powerful tool for Nanny Ji to teach her children!

He immediately took a half step back and bowed to Nanny Ji: "When it comes to teaching children, I am far inferior to you Nannies!"

"The prince is a new father, so he is naturally unfamiliar with the subject. We are responsible for this. If he still can't teach him well, he should be beaten to death!" Nanny Ji calmly supported the prince's arm.

She laughed again and said, "I have seen so many children, and the princess is the best one among them. She is not inferior to Princess Yongning back then.

“It’s just that the princess has been pitiful since she was young, without a mother to teach her, so it’s inevitable that her temper is a bit extreme.

"Fortunately, nowadays, Wang Chenghui respects me as he respects his mother and obeys my orders.

"Wang Chenghui also cherishes the princess very much. He even often feels ashamed that his temperament and knowledge are not first-rate, and he is not as dignified as Mei Liangyuan. He is afraid that he will delay the princess's future..."

When the prince heard this, he sighed and said, "This is truly the heart of a loving mother!"

Nanny Ji nodded deeply and sighed softly, "When I first came here, I heard that the Crown Prince had said that he wanted to register the princess under the name of the Crown Princess. In fact, it is not necessarily a good thing to be born of a legitimate wife..."

"It's just a proposal." The prince responded, "I wanted to change it three years ago, but I thought I would just wait until Tao Ge'er was five years old to get the imperial certificate, so I put it off until now."

"My sister is grown up now, and this matter concerns her whole life. Why don't you discuss it with my sister when you are free?" Nanny Ji breathed a sigh of relief.

The prince nodded repeatedly and sincerely thanked Nanny Ji again before asking her to go outside to look after He Ke and Tao Ge'er, while he paced to Wang Xifeng's bedroom.

The four palace maids who had just been ordered to change their plain clothes into light-colored ones had now finished packing and were standing outside the bedroom with their heads bowed.

Xia Shouzhong, Jing Li and Fuguier stood a little further away from the palace maids.

Seeing the prince coming out of He Ke's warm room and walking towards the bedroom, Xia Shouzhong stepped forward quickly, knelt down excitedly and saluted: "Your Highness!"

"Hmph. You still recognize me?" The prince curled his lips and glanced at him.

Xia Shouzhong kowtowed hurriedly: "Your Highness has pointed out a good master for me. I have studied hard for three years. Although I am still impulsive at times, I will never make the same stupid mistake again!"

The prince relaxed his brows in satisfaction: "That's pretty good."

"Then your highness..." Xia Shouzhong laughed, "Can this servant get up now?"

"Get up." The prince kicked him and scolded him with a smile, "You are still making such noises in front of me! You ran to Lizheng Palace before dawn and almost scared Qinghai to death. It was you, wasn't it?"

Xia Shouzhong got up, touched the back of his head, and forced a bitter face: "You said that I scared Qinghai? It was that thief who almost scared everyone in the East Palace to death!

"The coroner took those things out of his arms right there and then. The servant, Jing Li, Fu Gui Er, and Master Cheng Hui, four people with eight eyes, saw it all!

"I lost half my life at that time!

"If it weren't for Wu Jin's shout, if he had succeeded, all the servants in this hall would have lost their lives!

"Besides, there is a little princess in this warm room.

"Don't mention it now. My scalp is connected to my back and elbows. I feel numb just thinking about it!"

After the prince finished listening to him nagging, he slowly turned these words in his mind, but he laughed at Qinghai: "I was so wise back then! If he were in Lizheng Palace, he would either annoy me to death or I would kill him!"

"Master Chenghui is also talkative and cheerful. I guess Axia has fallen in love with Chenghui!" Qinghai just kept talking nonsense to add to the fun.

Qiao Gui, who had been waiting anxiously nearby, secretly raised her eyes and looked in the direction of the prince who spoke with a blushing face.

A foot suddenly stepped on her toes silently, and crushed them hard.

Qiaogui felt a piercing pain, but she dared not scream. She was instantly covered in cold sweat. She bit her back teeth tightly and lowered her head obediently.

The foot moved away.