Chapter 8: Discovery
Today is the third day since the little prince’s birth, and also the little prince’s third-day baptism ceremony, but Emperor Jingwen did not even come.
Now, even Concubine Rong can no longer deceive herself.
This neglect came out of nowhere. I had helped him give birth to a prince smoothly, so why was he still unhappy?
Not only Concubine Rong couldn’t figure it out, but the entire Duke Zhen’s Mansion couldn’t figure it out either.
How come their family had worked so hard for the royal family, fought off foreign enemies, and tried their best to maintain the stability of the Great Zhou, but the emperor turned against them so suddenly?
Today, the Duke of Zhen was reprimanded for the first time during the court session. When he returned home, he couldn’t understand why this happened.
The most crucial thing is that the emperor actually let the eldest prince replace the third prince in the army.
The eldest prince is only 17 years old now. He can participate in the management of the military camp, but he is far from being able to lead troops into battle and become the commander-in-chief of an army.The Duke of Zhen couldn’t help but argue with the emperor in the court. As a result, for some unknown reason, Emperor Jingwen seemed to get even angrier and even ordered him to go home and not to attend court for seven days.
The Duke of Zhen was so angry that he was still muttering and cursing as he walked on the street.
Little did he know that his every word and action was recorded and reported to Emperor Jingwen.
Because the man was far away and had been specially trained, even a veteran like the Duke of Zhen who had fought on the battlefield for most of his life did not notice him.
When the Duke of Zhen returned home, he felt a little better.
Then he remembered that the palace had sent him a message that today was exactly the third day since the imperial concubine gave birth, and it was also the third day of her grandson’s baptism ceremony.
“Have you prepared the gifts for your sister and nephew?”
“It’s been prepared a long time ago, and someone is already preparing to send it to the palace.” According to folk customs, the uncle has to do a lot of work. So the six of them did not dare to neglect it at all and picked out the things early.
According to etiquette, they cannot enter the palace to visit, but it is okay to send some gifts.
When he thought of his daughter, the Duke of Zhen no longer cared about the things happening in the court.
“Wait, don’t go yet, take this with you.” As he said this, the Duke of Zhen took out a longevity lock from his arms.
This thing was carved by a craftsman a month before Concubine Rong gave birth. It was made from the same piece of jade and was of high quality. All the legitimate grandchildren in the Duke Zhen’s Mansion had one. Normally, it should not be given to a daughter’s child, after all, he is a grandson. But the Duke Zhen was unreasonable!
After all, he only had one daughter in his life, and the Duke of Zhen naturally regarded the child born by Concubine Rong as his own grandson.
Even if he is of royal blood, doesn’t he have half of the Wei family’s blood flowing in his body?
“And you too.”
The Duke of Zhen’s tiger eyes flashed across the faces of the six men: “Even if your sister gets married, she is still a member of the Duke of Zhen’s Mansion. Do you understand? Don’t let me hear any unpleasant words, otherwise you just wait for me!”
The six men looked at each other, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
How dare they do that? They can’t even love her enough.
“That’s good enough.” The Duke of Zhen was finally satisfied.
As for the fact that he was reprimanded by the Emperor in the court, the Duke of Zhen naturally would not let anyone tell Concubine Rong about it, and it would be too late to hide it from her.
But Concubine Rong finally found out.
After all, she is not a fool, right?
Such big news, even if she didn’t know it, others would find ways to tell her.
Concubine Rong was really hurt this time, and tears were falling like crazy.
Inexplicably, she suddenly felt a little panic in her heart, and she grabbed the hand of the nanny beside her and refused to let go: “Mammy, tell me, has the emperor changed his mind? Has he started to hate me?”
How could the nanny know what the emperor was thinking? She could do nothing but comfort her against her will.
Gu Shao, who was standing by, listened and was not so pessimistic.
After all, in his opinion, when one really wants to get rid of someone, he will never make such a big fuss.
The fact that the emperor still cursed proved that he had not completely given up on the Duke of Zhen in his heart, and that he still had some affection for his grandfather in his eyes.
If one day his mother was suddenly promoted to Imperial Noble Consort, or the Emperor began to highly praise the line of the Duke of Zhen, then he would be truly doomed.
If you want to destroy it, first make it crazy.
Even when hunting, it is necessary to paralyze the prey first, so that when the prey struggles, the noise will be minimized.
Then took the prey by surprise and killed it with one blow.
As for the reason why the emperor suddenly turned against him, Gu Shao also vaguely guessed it.
Concubine Rong couldn’t get out of bed these days, and Gu Shao heard her talk to him a lot, about the Defei, Shufei, and Xianfei. By the way, he also found out how many children they had given birth to, and who was ahead of him.
Gu Shao never imagined that the emperor already had eight sons before him, and he was the ninth. It took Gu Shao, an only child, a long time to accept the reality.
The current crown prince is not the emperor’s eldest son. Before the crown prince there were the first prince and the second prince, and after the crown prince there are the fourth prince, the fifth prince, the sixth prince, the seventh prince, and the eighth prince.
Among them, the eldest prince was 17 years old, the second prince was 16 years old, and the crown prince was 15 years old.
The rest were ten, seven, five, four and three years old.
Judging from the age arrangement, the order after the Crown Prince is obviously not so tight, especially between the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince, there is a full five years difference in age.
If the eldest prince and the second prince were born to improve their competitiveness, then the crown prince, the legitimate son, was born to inherit the country.
There was such a long interval in between, Gu Shao didn’t believe it was a coincidence or that the emperor suddenly died.
It is obvious that they are afraid that the remaining princes are too close in age to the crown prince and will have disputes with the crown prince.
It was not until the prince’s biological mother died that the number of children in the palace gradually increased.
In this case, how can Gu Shao fight for it?
Even if he is not a salted fish, he can’t get it.
My cheap dad is so biased. Isn’t it obvious who is the true love, and who is the gift given as a gift after topping up his phone bill?
[T/L NOTE:- He is pointing that other princes are kind of mistakes or that they were allowed to be born just to assist the crown prince.]
Unfortunately, his mother couldn’t understand it now and thought that the emperor no longer loved her.
The key point is that the emperor never seemed to love her…
What Gu Shao didn’t understand was how he was born under such circumstances. It shouldn’t have happened.
Gu Shao was puzzled, and then suddenly, he remembered the red pill he saw when he first opened his eyes.
No way…
Is it so cruel???
His eyes changed slightly, and Gu Shao couldn’t help but shudder.