Jiaolan Palace, named after the fragrant trees planted everywhere, is also the largest palace garden in Xiliu Palace.
When it was time for lunch, a group of palace maids and eunuchs serving the meal were blocked outside the door.
Kang Guang, the eunuch in charge of Jiaolan Palace, said to those people: "The empress said that there is no need to pass on the food yet. I am talking to the Sixth Prince inside!
You all go down first and come back when I call you."
"But it won't be new after a while," said the head eunuch.
"Replace it when it's stale. Are you dead?" Kang Guang glared at him, "I'm afraid of hitting my head if a leaf falls!
I’ll tell you clearly! Even if it’s not new, I can’t blame you, just leave my eyes soon!”
Inside, Concubine Xian sat on a short couch, and the sixth prince Zhu Gan stood in the middle of the floor.
He clenched his hands into fists, puffed out his chest, and you could see from behind that his cheeks were tense.
"Mother, this is my life-long event! Even if it is the elders who make the final decision, can't they ask me what I personally mean?!" the Sixth Prince said sadly and angrily.
The Concubine Xian sighed in frustration, as if she was suffering an unspeakable amount of pain: "Gan'er, I know you don't want to in your heart.
But you are no longer a child. The queen left me here today and took the initiative to bring up this matter. Do I dare not to continue?"
"What about my father... where is my father?" The sixth prince was like a drowning man, desperately looking for something to grab.
"Your Majesty will not ask questions," Concubine Xian shook her head with difficulty and glanced at her son, with a look of unbearable and helpless expression, "You are still young after all, and there are some things that you cannot see clearly for a while."
"Why? Didn't she also propose to my father that she would give the toad to Gu Ming?" The Sixth Prince said stubbornly, "Didn't my father not agree? Why don't you care about my affairs now?"
"She was not a queen at that time, just a concubine." Concubine Xian patiently explained to her son, "Daxia has always had rules, and the marriage arrangements of the princes are decided by the queen.
The marriages of the princes before you were all planned by the deposed queen, and the emperor did not reject any of them.
Now that the new queen has only been in office for a few months, your marriage is the first marriage she has planned, and you are her own niece.
From what I know about His Majesty, he is somewhat unwilling and will not reject it. Instead, he will maintain the queen's dignity and take care of the Yao family's face."
"Their dignity and face are all important, should I die?!" The sixth prince cried, "Why should I marry such an ugly person? I'm not a businessman, so I want to get a big golden toad to attract wealth!" p>
"Why are you kid speaking so freely? What will you do if someone listens to you?" Concubine Xian hurriedly covered his mouth.
"That's it!" The Sixth Prince gritted his teeth, "With a flat face and a big mouth, it looks like he is going to eat people at any time. One of the two toad eyes has now been replaced with a dog eye.
With his kind of virtue, beggars and beggars would shy away from each other when they see her. If she hadn't looked so scary, he wouldn't have frightened the monkey and scratched one of her eyes!"
"Shut up! Why are you getting more and more outrageous?!" Concubine Xian was so angry that she slapped the Sixth Prince twice, but she did it lightly, "Calm down, my ancestor! You don't know this thing about me?"
My heart has been bruised for a long time."
"Mother, why are the Yao family so bullying? I am a prince, but I have to suffer this insult!" The sixth prince's fists were clenched white.
"My child! If possible, which mother wouldn't want her son to marry a satisfactory woman?
But we can’t afford to offend the queen, and we can’t afford to offend the Yao family! Our lives are in their hands!
The rule passed down from Taizu is that princes cannot be crowned kings until the new emperor comes to power, and then they can crown their brothers as kings.
In the future, the prince will become the emperor, and the queen will be the queen mother. Whether to seal you or not, and where to seal you, is all a matter of words."
Concubine Xian told her son about the greatness of it.
"But...mother concubine..." The sixth prince knew that his mother was right, but he just didn't want to accept Yao Wanyi, "I hate her so much. Even if she is ugly, she is also despicable..."
If the Sixth Prince were asked to rank the women he hated, Yao Wanyi would definitely come out on top.
The second place is far behind her.
He had hated this arrogant, domineering, and ugly woman before, and now he felt sick even more when he thought of her.
Now that the queen wants him to sleep with such a woman, his life will definitely be shortened.
"Good boy, I know I have wronged you! But who told your mother to be incompetent!" Concubine Xian also started crying.
She cried in a low voice and covered her mouth with a handkerchief as hard as she could.
But the more mute and throat-blocking crying, the more sad and painful it seems.
The sixth prince was a filial child. Seeing his mother so sad, he quickly knelt down and wiped his mother's tears.
Concubine Xian grabbed his hand and begged, "Son, since you were reincarnated into the emperor's family, you are more helpless than a child from a poor family.
I know very well how much the Queen loves her only niece.
If she tries her best not to, she won’t force it, but it will never make life easier for you and me, mother and son.
Can't you see how cruel she is and how domineering the Yao family is?
My son, you are the only piece of flesh I have in this life.
What's more, you know my temperament. I've always been aloof from the world. I just hope that your life will be safe and smooth, and I can close my eyes.
No matter how bad this daughter of the Yao family is, if you marry her, you will have a gold-encrusted amulet.
Today, the Queen told me that if you don’t want to, you will be sent to the border.
The Xiongnu and the Han people have been fighting for years, and you are a prince. If you are captured, you will only be detained as a hostage. You and I, mother and son, will never see each other again in this life."
"Mother, I understand what you are saying, and I don't want you to worry.
But I...but I...I really want to vomit when I think about her." The sixth prince looked in pain, holding his hand on his chest, as if he was trying his best to endure it.
"Mom knows it, mom knows it. But if you don't bear it, you will suffer disaster.
I think the daughter of the Yao family is not born with three heads and six arms. She is domineering, and she needs to abide by women's ethics when she gets married." Concubine Xian tried her best to comfort her son.
"Mom, do I really have to agree to this marriage?" The sixth prince still refused to give up.
"Son, stop having extravagant hopes and accept your fate!" Concubine Xian held her son's face, tears welling up in her eyes, "You have to remember, patience means a knife to your head. From now on, don't show yourself to outsiders.
I am not even remotely willing to take part in this marriage.
You have to remember that the queen did not force you, and the Yao family did not force you. Only I forced you.
If you are resentful or hateful, then just resent me alone!"
The sixth prince hugged his mother tightly, letting out a painful cry from his chest.
There is clear sunshine outside the window, which is a rare good weather.