Seeing that the prince refused to submit, the queen took out her trump card and cried bitterly: "Why can't you understand my painstaking efforts? You don't want to do it intentionally, but you don't want to think that I can be good for you and endure it.
How many grievances and hardships?
I tried my best to come up with such a way, no one will be hurt, and no one's interests will be harmed.
Just to put the icing on the cake, can't you agree to such a small request? Do you have to make me kneel down and beg you?
You keep talking about filial piety, but it makes me sad. I want to ask you which family's filial piety is this?"
"Mother, I just don't want to be a hypocritical person. Isn't this wrong?" The prince was only fourteen or fifteen years old, but when he said this, he was so old-fashioned.
"What do you want me to tell you? How can you put aside those true and false thoughts? I am just a woman who has not read many books, but I only know that I want my son to be good, and that is enough.
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"Mother, am I not feeling well now? I am already the prince, and you are already the queen. No one threatens my position. Do you think it is the second, fourth, fifth, or sixth brother?" Prince
Shaking his head sadly, "My son feels that these brothers of mine love and respect me. If my mother and queen suspect that someone has intentions, we might as well call him over and question him face to face. Why do we have to guess like this every day?"
Suspicious?" The prince had mustered up a lot of courage to say these words.
"Okay, okay, I have really raised a good son!" The queen cried and laughed, and she was a little crazy. "It turns out that reading poetry and books is just to teach me a lesson."
"Mother, no, I didn't mean that. I only respect and feel sorry for you in my heart. I know your painstaking efforts, but can we not go on like this? When will this end?" These are the princes.
He only said his innermost thoughts to one person.
Although that person is a little palace maid, especially timid, she can listen to him quietly, and then use a few words to soothe the pain and uneasiness in his heart.
But the queen refused to listen to the prince's explanation. She pulled off the phoenix crown she had already worn on her head, her hair was disheveled, and her tears scattered her makeup.
"Chong'er, let me ask you, can you do what I want today? If not, all my hard work will be in vain. I don't know when I will have such an opportunity again in the future.
, Besides, if you’re not willing to do it, it’s useless no matter how high a platform I build!”
"Empress, Your Highness, the time is coming." Liang Jing did not come in, but reminded him loudly at the door outside.
The prince felt a chill in his heart. He knew that he had to surrender, otherwise today's birthday banquet would not end.
Finally, he suppressed the words he had been holding back for a long time, gently held up the phoenix crown, knelt down to the queen and said: "Mother, I am a child who is ignorant. Don't take it to heart, today is yours."
Birthday. Whatever you tell me to do, I will do it."
When the queen saw him like this, she held back her tears, pulled him up and said, "Good son, we, mother and son, must always be of the same mind. From the moment you fell off the grass, I was no longer me.
You are alive. So as long as it is for your own good, I will do anything."
When the queen said this, she was so moved that she didn't even notice that the prince lowered his face and pursed his lips tightly.
After about another stick of incense, the queen and the prince finally drove from Ronghua Palace to Tianen Palace.
On the way, a eunuch who was delivering the news reported that the emperor had also left Yangze Palace.
"Tell them to hurry up and don't be late." The queen ordered on the phoenix chariot.
The eunuchs carrying the phoenix chariot immediately quickened their pace.
By the time they arrived at Tian'en Hall, all the guests had already arrived, and when they saw the queen, they came forward to salute.
The queen accepted everyone's courtesy with a cheerful face, as if nothing unpleasant had happened before.
Before the queen could take her seat, the emperor also arrived, and naturally there was another greeting.
The fifth prince's concubine Lan Ning got up early to enter the palace that day! She still went to the Furong Palace of Concubine Fu to wait.
The little grandson is now half a year old, white, fat, and very cute.
I haven't touched the ground since I walked in. Everyone is vying to hug me.
This child is also well-behaved and courageous. He is not afraid of strangers and can be held by anyone.
Lan Ning looked at Xue Hengzhao carefully and said: "How come you haven't gained any weight? You can't be so thin all the time. You must have some fat on your body at a young age."
Xue Hengzhao said: "Speaking of which, I ate a lot of the longan cake you brought to the palace a few days ago, and I slept soundly at night."
"This thing isn't worth anything. If you like to eat it, I can just ask people to bring some in every now and then." Lan Ning said.
After hearing this, Concubine Fu said: "If you can sleep peacefully, your illness will be reduced by half, and if you eat more, your illness will be gone.
I have always been like this, and I only take medicine a few times throughout the year."
"How many people are as lucky as the empress? People like slaves are born without a good body. In this regard, they are less blessed than ordinary people." Xue Hengzhao did not care at all about his shortcomings.
place.
Because not long after she was born, some people concluded that she was destined to die young and would not survive the age of seven.
Now she is seventeen years old.
"I heard in a trance outside the palace that the Seventh Princess was injured, but then there was no news. I didn't ask much, as if I wanted to spy on something." Lan Ning said, "Now that I'm in the palace, I can ask.
, is there really such a thing?"
"Of course there is, but big things become trivial and trivial things disappear. It turned out that the seventh princess and the tenth princess had a dispute that day, and they were pushed into the water and broke their heads.
But this time Li Fei did not pursue her at all. You still don’t know that Li Fei has changed her temper now and is no longer as aggressive as before. You will know it later when you meet her at the banquet."
"It's been three days since we've been apart, and I'm so impressed. I think Li Fei was demoted once, suffered a lot, and learned a lesson. Only then did she know how to be restrained, which is a good thing." Lan Ning said after hearing this.
Because there were other people around them, Concubine Fu and Xue Hengzhao didn't say much.
When it was almost time, Wei Zhong came in to ask for instructions.
Concubine Fu said: "Let's not arrive late and appear disrespectful. We would rather go there earlier. It will be the same wherever we sit anyway."
So they all came out of Furong Palace and arrived at Tian'en Palace.
They arrived about half a stick of incense earlier than the queen and the others.
