Ji Weiguan entered the palace at this time. He probably had nothing else to do except to speak for his wife. However, even the Empress Dowager didn’t expect that he would propose to give up the dukedom of the Ji Family in exchange for not relegating Grand Princess Daiguo.
“What nonsense!” Hearing him out, the Empress Dowager who was sullen looked angrier. Before Emperor Xianjia could speak, she scolded, “Your ancestors earned this dukedom by risking their lives in the wars. They left it to the future generations of your family. You think you can decide this alone? There are no outsiders here. I’ll be frank with you. Zifu is an idler and doesn’t work. If he doesn’t have the dukedom, what do you want them to live on in the future? You want my grandson to worry about the basic necessities of life in the future, just like common people?”
The Empress Dowager’s favorite grandson must be Jian Xubai, who was raised by her in person. Even several other grands
Despite Prince of Su’s unpredictable future and Nie Wuying’s compromising origin, after the imperial edict was handed down, all noble families prepared gifts to congratulate them one after another.The congratulatory gifts from the Eastern Palace to both sides were especially grand. As the winner, the crown prince should show enough generosity to his brothers at this important time. The crown prince knew this without being reminded by the crown princess.Moreover, Grand Princess Jinguo helped the crown prince a lot before.“It is said that Her Majesty gave you a pair of blood jade hairpins carved with a pair of lovebirds and twinned trunks, which were handed down by the Su Family from the Wei Dynasty. They were made of rare blood jade.” Although there were so many guests in the Grand Princess’s mansion this day, Nie Wuying was not an artful person. Being surrounded by these people, she was a little flustered instead of feeling that she w
Song Yixiao and Nie Wuying had been in the inner chamber for a while which was enough for Song Yixiao to comb her hair again after putting the hairpins away. However, they were still in the inner chamber, Lady of Earl Shouchun couldn’t help suspecting that Song Yixiao couldn’t’ soothe Nie Wuying.She was worried about it, so she took a chance to get up and go to the inner chamber to see what was going on.Seeing her get up, the others knew what she was going to do and waited while talking. Unexpectedly, they waited for a long time without even seeing Lady of Earl Shouchun come back. In the end, even Commandery Princess Qingjiang, who stayed to preside over the gathering, showed a confused look and planned to ask a maid to find out what was going on. At this time, Lady of Earl Shouchun and Song Yixiao came back with a smile.“Where is Wuying?” Commandery Princess Qingjiang stretched her neck and looked behind them but didn’t see Nie Wuyin
The maid answered, “Prince of Liang heard from the imperial physician that Princess Consort of Liang should exercise properly since she was about to give birth, so he took time to take a walk with her in the garden these two days. However, His Highness accidentally twisted his ankle and knocked Her Highness down.”Hearing this, Song Yixiao breathed a sigh of relief. Prince of Liang made a scene because his official wife was a concubine’s daughter before his marriage, and it was said that he had a lot of discord with Princess Consort of Liang after they got married, but since Princess Consort of Liang was pregnant, he had changed his attitude, cared for and spoiled her wife in every way. Since it was Prince of Liang who knocked down his wife and caused her early delivery, it should be an accident.However, whether it was an accident or not, it was unpredictable whether delivery women could survive the delivery at such a time. Moreover, Song Yixiao cou
After thinking for a while, Song Yixiao asked her husband and knew that Gu Shao was in good health and not terminal ill at all, so she put the matter behind. Anyway, Song Yuan was the one who compromised. No matter what the inside story was, it was probably the Song Family that was in trouble, which had nothing to do with Jian Xubai and her.In that case, why should she bother about that?Time passed quickly and soon it was the ninth day of the tenth lunar month, Zhuo Ping’an’s birthday. In order to show their respect to Commandery Princess Qingjiang and her son, Jian Xubai specially asked for leave and accompanied his wife to congratulate them.Princess Changxing was also present, but she came alone. As soon as she entered the door, she apologized on behalf of Jian Yiyou. Jian Yiyou recently caught a cold and was afraid of giving others his cold, so he had to ask her to come alone to celebrate his nephew’s birthday.Princes
The crown princess looked at the maids around and said after they all withdrew, “I got pregnant shortly after my mother-in-law’s death. Although it’s happy news, it was also embarrassing.”“There was already a justifiable explanation about getting pregnant when observing mourning for parents in the Wei Dynasty.” Song Yixiao was confused, “Did some people talk nonsense and make you worry?”Song Yixiao thought it should be impossible. The crown prince had just won in the fight for the title of heir to the throne. Even the Empress Dowager didn’t dare to upset them, let alone others.Noble Consort Cui was just dead and the crown princess got pregnant while she and the crown prince were observing mourning for Noble Consort Cui. In those years, the time when you got pregnant didn’t matter and you would be considered as an unfilial person as long as you gave birth to the child when you were observing mourning for your parents. If this rule stil
After all, they had been married for many years. Even if they didn’t get along very well in the past, the crown prince could notice that the crown princess was concealing her panic and worry. He raised his eyebrow and joked with a smile, “What if I say I want your sister to be doubly related to us?”“I’ll accept any decisions you make,” The crown princess’s smile remained unchanged, but there was a trace of reluctance in her expression. She said, “However, it hasn’t been long since Mother passed away. If you marry her now, I’m afraid it would affect your reputation...”“I’m just kidding!” The crown prince wanted to tease his wife, but then he remembered that she was pregnant and couldn’t be upset. Hearing this, he hurriedly said, “In fact, Grandmother summoned me today and talked about one thing with me!”In fact, the crown princess also felt that her husband would not be interested in her sister and probably faked his disappointment and
Emperor Xianjia didn’t know that the Empress Dowager had talked about Wei Yinlian’s marriage with the crown prince at this time, so after thinking for a while, he agreed. After all, Grand Princess Daiguo was his sister. His days were numbered and he didn’t want to reject Grand Princess Daiguo’s requests again and again. If he betrothed the crown princess’s sister to Grand Princess Daiguo’s nephew, he would fulfill his sister’s wish and could hint that he still cared about the Ji Family and those who wanted to deal with the Ji Family when the Ji Family was down should think twice before they did that.After Grand Princess Daiguo left, he went to pay respects to the Empress Dowager. After talking for a while, the Empress Dowager said, “I just told the crown prince that I wanted Qiu Zhiyin to marry his wife’s sister. I don’t know whether the crown princess would agree or not.”Emperor Xianjia was surprised, “I remember that there is only one girl unmarr
The tenth lunar month soon passed. On the 21st day of the tenth lunar month, Song Yixiao naturally didn’t go to the Song Family to attend Elder Lady Pang’s birthday banquet. Nor did Jian Xubai. They only sent an ordinary gift to her. The Song Family probably knew their attitude and didn’t send anyone to say anything like they missed Song Yixiao anymore.In the early eleventh lunar month, the marriages of Gu Tongxu and Qiu Zhiyin, and Wei Yinlian and Ji Mingfei finally settled and were made public.“His Majesty is truly benevolent.” Although Emperor Xianjia was suppressing the followers of Prince of Wei and Prince of Zhao these days, his intention of showing mercy to them was already very obvious. After these two marriages were made public, all people at the imperial court and the commonalty were not very surprised. They gasped at the emperor’s kindness with admiration like that and then left this matter behind.After all, the eighth day