northernbook Chapter 711 4 The Princess Came to the Jiang Family to Apologize
Chapter 711 4 The Princess Came to the Jiang Family to Apologize
She added: "Tell me about the previous princesses."
Hongxiu asked, "Should we start from the time when the Queen married the Emperor?"
"Just pick out the key points," she said.
Hong Xiu said, "When Your Majesty married the Emperor, he was still a prince, and you were only the Princess of Heng. At that time, the former Princess of Yu was the most annoying. She never spared anyone with her mouth. Who would have thought that she was the truly pitiful person? Not only could she not have children, but she was also beaten by Prince Yu. It was a terrible beating. Your Majesty, don't underestimate her because she was so powerful. When Prince Yu beat her, she didn't dare to fight back. When Concubine Yan scolded her as a hen that couldn't lay eggs, she could only cry.
Compared with the Third Prince's wife, the Third Prince's wife is much happier. The Third Prince has a problem with his feet, and it is said that it is congenital. The Third Prince's wife has no desires and only wants to guard the Third Prince's Mansion, which is not easy.
As for the Fourth Prince's Consort, she is just as the Empress said, she is arrogant and unsociable. The Fourth Prince simply has no temper in front of her. Everyone in Shengjing knows that the Fourth Prince is a henpecked husband who only dares to cheat on women. The concubines in the mansion are either the Fourth Prince's confidants or the ones hired by the Fourth Prince's Consort. The Fourth Prince got a maid pregnant and was secretly dealt with by the Fourth Prince's Consort, but the Fourth Prince dared not even fart. "
Jiang Fenghua heard this and said, "That's not necessarily true."
"What do you mean, empress?"
"Is the Fourth Prince really henpecked? Is he really weak and incompetent?" Jiang Fenghua asked again, "So this is the strangest thing about the Fourth Prince."
Hong Xiu was puzzled. "Everyone says so. Besides, the princes are useless. Only the emperor is a man of both civil and military talents, brave and extraordinary, and cares about the people of the world. There are countless women who want to marry him. Isn't it because of the emperor..."
"Isn't it because of his status as an emperor that everyone wants to marry him?" Jiang Fenghua was thinking, the fact that the heir of the Xie family is useless is all due to Empress Dowager Cheng! I heard from Nanny Wang that she and the late emperor had been separated for 20 years, and she must have used all these years to deal with the concubines in the palace!
Hongxiu was stunned, thinking that this was actually the reason why the Queen wanted to marry the Emperor.
Hongxiu was also a little embarrassed. She couldn't say that.
Jiang Fenghua saw that she was in a daze, "Go on."
Jiang Fenghua had asked Hongxiu and the others to investigate the situation of the royal family. They didn't understand at the time, but they finally understood after the Empress married the Emperor.
She said: "Several princes are not worthy of being appointed."
Jiang Fenghua said, "There are many heirs in the royal family, but only a few are capable of great use. Don't you find it strange? Every one of them is stupid. The mothers of the princes have trained their sons to be useless. In my opinion, at least the Fourth Prince is not what you said. I think he is deliberately hiding it."
Hong Xiu said, "The Fourth Prince's mother, Concubine Chang, still lives in the palace. The Ministry of Internal Affairs usually sends gifts to Concubine Chang. I've heard people mention that when Concubine Chang was young, she moved into the West Palace, which is equivalent to the cold palace. She asked to go to the West Palace at that time. Concubine Yan stayed with the late emperor the longest, but she didn't ask to go to the cold palace. The late emperor didn't go to her palace, nor did he invite her to sleep with him. She was driven crazy in the palace and took banned drugs to relieve her emptiness..."
Jiang Fenghua's thoughts have always been on the Fourth Prince. After the death of the previous emperor, according to the rules of the ancestors, the concubines could leave the palace with their sons to live out their retirement, which also meant letting them be free. But why didn't Concubine Chang leave the palace?
Jiang Fenghua said: "Let's go meet the Fourth Princess as well!"
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In the front hall, Zhang Yurou seemed to want to stay for breakfast. She didn't say she was leaving, and Zhang Yumo didn't feel comfortable sending her away. After all, their relationship was once so good, and it wouldn't be right to stop communicating because of such a small matter.
The maid refilled several cups of tea for the Fourth Princess, and she said, "Aunt Jiang, your tea is really delicious, sweet and fragrant. What kind of tea is it? I'll ask the housekeeper to buy some."
Feng Jingyuan still remembered the day in the palace when the Fourth Princess repeatedly accused Xiun'er of pushing her daughter. She was even unwilling to admit that it was her daughter who pushed Xiun'er and Xiaochu into the lotus pond.
Feng Jingyuan said: "It's not some precious tea. It's just wild tea made from leaves picked randomly in the mountains. It's mainly used to reduce internal heat. People with excessive internal heat can drink more."
Zhang Yurou had a bit of embarrassment on her face. The tea she usually drank was the best tea, the royal tribute tea. When had she ever drunk wild tea from the mountains?
Her eyes suddenly turned red, and she added, "It's good to reduce the anger. It's all because of Yurou's failure to teach her well. She has been spoiled since she was young. I gave birth to a daughter, not a son, so Yi'er has not been liked by her father since she was young. So I thought about loving her more, but who knew she would become like this? I was also afraid that she would be wronged outside and no one would support her."
Zhang Yurou's use of the child to play the sympathy card was indeed effective. Feng Jingyuan said, "What's wrong with having a daughter? A daughter is also the apple of her mother's eye."
Zhang Yurou said, "So Moer gave birth to Xiaochu. Xiaochu is loved by the whole Jiang family. Lord Jiang and Aunt Jiang don't mind that she gave birth to a daughter. You all love Xiaochu very much. We are really envious."
Zhang Yumo glanced at Feng Jingyuan shyly, "Cousin."
"You are still embarrassed. You and Lord Jiang will have children in the future. Now you have a daughter, and next time you will have a son. It would be better to have both sons and daughters."
Feng Jingyuan said: "If Mo'er's next child is a daughter, we in the Jiang family will still love her just the same. It doesn't matter if we have a son or a daughter."
Zhang Yurou only felt that she was talking without any pain in her waist, and on the surface she was happy, "Aunt Jiang really loves her daughter-in-law."
At this time, Jiang Fenghua walked out from the backyard and said, "I wonder if Concubine Chang loves the Fourth Princess just as much!"
When the words "Concubine Chang" were mentioned, Zhang Yurou's eyes flickered slightly, as if a trace of panic flashed through her, and she quickly stood up from her seat and saluted, "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you. I didn't know that you had left the palace. I'm sorry."
"Please take a seat, Princess Fourth. I am just out of the palace to handle some business." Jiang Fenghua didn't want to be too intimate with her.
In her opinion, there must be something wrong when things are abnormal.
As soon as Jiang Fenghua arrived, the atmosphere changed a little.
Zhang Yurou was told by Xie Yang to be extremely cautious in front of Jiang Fenghua and not to reveal any flaws.
She asked, "Why did the Queen suddenly leave the palace?"
"I'm leaving the palace to take care of the Jishan Hall. Many people in the Jishan Hall were poisoned. They were all a bunch of poor people. I don't know who has a grudge against a bunch of poor people and wants to poison them to death." Jiang Fenghua sighed, "Imperial Doctor Mei and the people from the Imperial Hospital have been busy detoxifying them. Jishan Hall is my hard work. I just hope there will be fewer wronged souls and evil spirits in Shengjing City."
Zhang Yurou was a little nervous unconsciously, "It's quite pitiful."
"It was Concubine Su who poisoned her. She admitted it to me personally. I didn't expect that she is still alive. What I didn't expect is that Concubine Su is also in contact with the Empress Dowager. They have teamed up to harm the people in Jishan Hall. I am very sad." Jiang Fenghua spoke without thinking. All this information has been included in the files of the Ministry of Clan Affairs. If the Fourth Princess and the Fourth Prince really want to investigate, they can find out.
After hearing this, Zhang Yurou's expression didn't change much, which meant that she had known about it for a long time.
Jiang Fenghua stared at Zhang Yurou's face, and saw that the skin on her face seemed to be stretched tight. He continued, "She was really lucky. She escaped. The remnants of the Su family could not be killed completely, so someone rescued her. The person who died was not Concubine Su at all, but someone pretended to be her and died for her."
Zhang Yurou blurted out: "How come she is not dead yet?"
"Actually... she is indeed not dead. The emperor is secretly trying to capture her." Jiang Fenghua covered her mouth, "Mother, sister-in-law, don't tell anyone!"
The two nodded, "We won't say anything nonsense."