The lights outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony are bright, and under the long white jade staircase, carriages from various houses arrive one after another. Once here, you have to get off the car and walk up the steps to enter the hall.
All the Jiang family members came together. Jiang Qi and several other officials in the court chatted with the officials they met under the stone stairs.
"This is our little Fu Bao!"
The uncles proudly introduced Fubao.
Many uncles whom Fubao didn't know said good things to him, which made Fubao blush.
"Yu Xue is really smart!"
"You look like a lucky person!"
"As expected of the princess of Tianqi Kingdom!"
The Jiang family brothers were so proud, look, this is their little niece!
The jewel in the Jiang family’s eye!
They protect it!
From a distance, Eunuch Xie saw the Jiang family and the increasingly cute breast dumpling in Mrs. Jiang's arms, and hurriedly came to greet her.
With a smile on his face: "I have met the eldest princess, I have met the princess Changning!"
Mrs. Jiang said: "No need to be polite, His Majesty is already here?"
"No, the Queen has arrived," Eunuch Xie whispered. He waved and the young father-in-law came over in a human-powered sedan. "It's inevitable that your hands will get sore while holding her like this. The Queen has given orders, and Princess Changning can sit down and walk up to her."
Fu Bao looked at the sedan chair curiously. It was ventilated from all sides, so he lifted it up purely by manpower.
"Fu Bao, do you want to sit down?"
Fu Bao nodded: "Grandma's hands will get sore if she hugs her for too long."
In fact, Fu Bao could still walk up the steps by herself, but there were too many steps, and her grandmother was afraid that she would fall and fall down, so she would not let her go by herself no matter what.
Mrs. Jiang saw that she wanted to sit down, so she put her on the sedan chair and drove her out, while she walked slowly beside her.
"Since it is the queen's wish, you can just sit down."
Mrs. Jiang, however, had already guessed the Queen's meaning in her mind.
The queen was not of high birth, but she was also a member of the Donglin Shi family. When the emperor was just an unpopular prince, her mother-in-law proposed to marry Shi for him. When the emperor came to the throne, Shi was naturally the queen according to the rules.
The emperor and empress respected each other as guests, and the empress only gave birth to one eldest prince. The emperor originally cared about this child. After all, according to the ancestral system, the prince established the elder rather than the younger, so the eldest prince was likely to be the next prince.
It's a pity that the eldest prince was born with a leg disease, and people born with a disease cannot become the heir apparent in Tianqi Kingdom.
The prince must be in good health.
However, the emperor was neither heir nor eldest son, so he had always been lukewarm towards other princes, and he had no idea of establishing a heir apparent.
The queen remained silent, and the emperor married the general's daughter as Concubine Jing, and always favored Concubine Jing.
In terms of family status and power, the Queen is not as good as Concubine Jing. I heard that Concubine Jing has been causing trouble for the Queen in recent years. The harem is almost all Concubine Jing's. Although the Queen pretends to sincerely worship the Buddha and ignore trivial matters, who actually
Do you know the pain in her heart?
The only thing the queen could count on was the eldest prince. The leg disease was congenital and could not be cured by all the famous doctors.
How could the queen not be in a hurry?
Thinking of this, Mrs. Jiang probably also knew why the Queen insisted on coming to please her.
I just hope that as the biological sister of the emperor's mother, she can help her more in the future.
Inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
The queen sat next to the dragon chair, looking dignified and majestic, dressed in palace red, but with an unconcealed sense of exhaustion in her expression.
On the queen's side, the seat that should have been occupied by the concubine was now empty.
Down below, there were other concubines in the harem, competing for beauty, talking and laughing, but few of them took the initiative to pay attention to her, the main queen.
"Your Majesty, this Concubine Jing is really disrespectful. You've already arrived and she still doesn't come!"
The Queen whispered: "Your Majesty likes her, what can I do..."
There was no wave in his eyes.
The emperor's heart was not with her, she had known it for a long time, and now she didn't care anymore.
She only hoped that the emperor's leg disease could be cured and that her position as queen would be stable.
"The eldest princess has arrived!——"
"Princess Changning has arrived!——"
When Eunuch Xie sang, the people talking and laughing in the hall quickly stopped and looked outside the hall.
The first thing that appeared was the little baby girl sitting on the sedan chair. She was dressed in aqua blue robes. At first glance, she looked like the best Sichuan brocade, without any carvings.
She has a pretty little face, with the bright colors of the Jiang family between her brows and eyes.
She seemed a little uneasy being stared at by so many people. She looked sideways and pursed her lips, grabbing the hand of the eldest princess beside her.
"Is this the Jiang family girl? What is her name - Fubao?"
"Why don't you even have a proper name? Ha..."
"Keep your voice down, or you will die! I am the princess bestowed upon you by your Majesty! The grandson of the eldest princess!"
"He was brought here alone in a sedan chair. What a grand gesture!"
There were some sarcastic remarks, some envious ones, and there was a lot of discussion.
Mrs. Jiang's expression did not change. She was dressed in crimson today, showing her noble status.
The old lady hugged Naituanzi and led her step by step towards the queen.
Just as he was about to salute, the queen also stood up with a smile. She was about to say that there was no need to be more polite, but unexpectedly a seductive voice rang out.
"I'm sorry, I'm late."
This seductive and domineering voice was not made by Concubine Jing on purpose, but who was it?
She was dressed in pink today, like a blooming lotus. Coupled with her outstanding appearance and figure, she was indeed eye-catching.
She is holding Princess Chang'an in her hand, with a lazy posture.
"I'm sorry, Queen Mother. I was really exhausted last night because of my gratitude. Your Majesty, please give me permission to sleep a little longer..."
She yawned with her bare hands, and the queen's face froze, and she faked a smile for a moment: "It's okay, Concubine Jing has done her best for the dragon heir, please take a seat."
"Thank you, Queen~"
There was little respect in Concubine Jing's tone.
Princess Chang'an beside her had already seen Fu Bao coming in a sedan chair.
She doesn't even get this treatment!
She looked worried, "It's true that anyone can break the rules! I don't know who allows a princess with a foreign surname to come here in a sedan chair!"
Chang'an's words offended many people, and the queen's face turned cold.
"This palace allows it. What do you think, princess?"
Chang'an was stunned. She didn't expect that it was the queen who approved it.
But she never paid much attention to the queen, the nominal mother-in-law. In Chang'an's view, the one who should really be the mother-in-law of the world is her biological mother, Concubine Jing!
She was used to being pampered, so she pursed her lips and said awkwardly: "As the master of the harem, don't you know that ordinary ministers have to take off their swords and other items and enter the palace on foot? What if someone with evil intentions sneaks in?
What should I do if I hurt my father’s dragon body?”
Concubine Jing just smiled arrogantly as she watched her daughter embarrass the queen, and said softly: "Yes, sister queen, Chang'an is also thinking about my sister. You still have to abide by the rules that should be followed."
What the mother and daughter said made the queen's face turn black.
Mrs. Jiang suddenly said: "How come I don't know that my little Fu Bao has such great abilities and can still make His Majesty's dragon body unsafe?"
Concubine Jing was shocked.
That’s not what Chang’an meant at all!
This old fox's method of confusing right and wrong is really powerful!
What she was going to say, Mrs. Jiang actually turned around and left with Fu Bao in hand, saying, "Since Concubine Jing and Princess Chang'an don't want to see me, I can just take Fu Bao and leave!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience was shocked!
Concubine Jing was so shocked that she knocked over the fruits at hand, and her beautiful dress suddenly became dirty.