With this sudden question, even though Jian Xu Bai has always been deeply favored by the Empress Dowager, he could not help but feel creeped out!
He was stunned for a moment before he got up and left the couch, kneeling down in front of the Empress Dowager, and said in a deep voice ''Why did Imperial Grandmother make such a remark? I don't dare to say that I don't have any selfishness, but I have never thought of usurping the throne! The reason why I will support His Highness King Su to ascend to the throne, apart from worrying about Second Auntie, is also because His Highness King Su has the qualifications of a wise ruler, and can succeed the late Emperor's divine warrior!"
Taking a deep breath, he knocked heavily on the ground, "I never thought of betraying Lu!"
"Good boy, mourning home but just so ask, why do you have to be so solemn?" The dowager empress looked at him with complicated eyes, bent down to help each other, sighed, "Mourning family naturally believ
At this moment, the Grand Princess of Jin's residence.Jia Yao gently picked up the silver pot on the table and poured warm rose dew into the giltsilver begonia marigold, the sound of the flower dew entering the marigold seemed particularly silent against the backdrop of the whirling winter rain outside the window.The north wind rolled through the court, lifting up a snowy mist, and the obviously warm springlike interior was flooded with a chill for no apparent reason.She suddenly heard the sound of a rustling of the Chinese tent, and busily set aside the silver pot that had only been halfpoured, turning to check just in time to see the palefaced Grand Princess of Jin rising tremblingly to her feet."Is Your Highness thirsty?" Jia Yao took three steps to the edge of the couch and held the master, on one side taking a hidden bag from the side and padding it behind the Grand Princess so that she could lean more comfortably, and on the other side she said wit
In the narrow alley, a nicely dressed little girl was deprived of her necklace, bracelet, pearl sachet and all the other valuable ornaments by a maid. Instead, she was made to put on poor clothes.Song Yixiao, neither crying nor screaming, with her almond eyes wide open, was curious and yet tame, just letting the woman with heavy makeup put her into a carriage.Her unusual cooperation made the woman frown. After putting her into the carriage, the woman turned around to talk with the maid who was tearing the pearls off the sachet, “Is there anything wrong with your lady? She is eight years old anyway. Why doesn’t she make any noise after hearing that we are selling her? In this case, the price…”“You don’t know about her. This lady doesn’t like talking, who is not liked by the elder lady and master. Otherwise, how dare I sell her before the new mistress stays in the family for one year?” Upon hearing her talk of the price, the maid hastened to h
As was expected by Song Yixiao, after struggling for a while, the woman still decided to do as told. After all, the woman had only two choices: one was to lose all reputation for abducting the eldest young lady of an official of the Hanlin Academy; the other was to receive moral praise after doing the girl a favor. It was an easy decision!However, she still felt a bit worried, “The Wei Family is merely your mother’s maiden line. Your mother has been remarried to a prince. What if they don’t want to stand for you? Then…”“Think with your brain!” Song Yixiao opened her eyes and gawked at her teasingly, “Prince of Hengshan is much superior to my father! My mother divorced my father and becomes a prince’s second wife. Although it is true that she is loathed by my grandmother, others all accuse her of fawning upon the rich and despising the poor. Even the Wei Family are criticized for negligence of educating the daughter. I have three cousins who are still unma
The Song Family were immersed in happy laughter and joyful voices. Madam Liu, who was married to Song Yuan as his second wife last year, was diagnosed of pregnancy two months ago. Today they called on a doctor who was good at identifying the baby gender. According to the doctor, he was 90% confident that the baby was a boy!Madam Pang, eager for a grandson so badly, was pleased beyond words!Her smile didn’t fade away even after the doctor left. She was talking about fetal stabilization with Madam Liu when a servant came hastily to report that the former relative Madam Cao brought people to smash open their front door and beat all the way towards the back hall. She couldn’t even believe her ears, “Is this old cat crazy? Just as she managed to let her daughter to hook up with Prince of Hengshan, she can show no respect for the Song Family now?”Madam Liu heard that and also frowned, asking, “Are they coming here for the matter of Yixiao?”
“Madam Pang was so angry at that time! How fabulous!” Song Yixiao leaned against her cousin, Wei Ge’s arms obediently and pretended to be sleeping, hearing in secret the servant of the Wei Family talking about how Madam Cao settled with the Song Family, “Then she summoned Ms. Wu to confront. Just guess what she said.”“What else could she say? Of course she refused to acknowledge!” Wei Ge shouted with excitement, “That old cat even claimed that we plotted to sell Yixiao. What else can’t they do? Fortunately, the facts are all there. She can never make a false countercharge!”“Voice down! Yixiao is still sleeping!” Her elder sister Wei Ning lowered her voice to remind her and meanwhile turned around to have a guess in spirits, “Did she just say that she had searched for a long time and yet failed? Then they could execute the stalling tactics?”The servant was quite articulate, “If it were not for the elderly lady, the Song Family would do as you
Wei Mengying held her daughter to Madam Cao’s bed, took off her shoes, tucked her in and put down half of the curtain.She turned around to see that her mother also came into the room and closed the door. Then she said with a smile, “Madam Liu is so heartless! She must never have expected that Yixiao is so lucky to encounter a timid buyer who returned her to the Wei Family. Now they can never scold us for fawning on the rich!”“You didn’t do that?” Madam Cao answered in surprise, “I thought it was you who made the arrangement and set the trap for Madam Liu’s trusted subordinate!”“How is that possible?” Wei Mengying said in surprise, “Last time I came back, I have told you that the prince is nice to me but my mother-in-law doesn’t like me…” She heaved a sigh, “Somehow I feel that I just can’t win favor from the mother-in-law. The former one and the current one both dislike me. Over the past days, I have been busy dealing with the trouble that t
As a saying went, “Man proposes, God disposes.” Before Song Yixiao finished her show of burying the hatchet, because Madam Cao took some move or Madam Pang just hated her first granddaughter, Song Yixiao’s belongings and maids were sent to her with an excuse of Madam Pang—“I am so old now that I even have made two mistakes in choosing a daughter-in-law. How can I raise a granddaughter well?”“Now that Song Yuan has been impeached for not being able to managing the family well and lost his job, he will bring me to an adjacent city to stay away from trouble… Since Yixiao is your precious treasure and her birth mother is in the ascendant, she will be at your hands then!”If that was all, Song Yixiao could still continue pretending to be filial, “Since my father is bringing grandmother to an adjacent city, how can I not follow and take care of my grandmother and father?”However, Madam Pang went even further, “There are precedents for the dowry of
As she was new to the prince’s residence, Song Yixiao didn’t dare to ask about whether anyone had died in the Hanxia Villa before.However, after being led to her room by Ms. Bo, the maid of Wei Mengying, she looked around and felt quite good, “This place seems quite nice?”The Hanxia Villa was in among malus halliana. Now the florescence almost ended so only a few flowers were on the branch. It was not hard to imagine how beautiful the blooming scene was. To her satisfaction, the Hanxia Villa was delicately decorated and spacious, in which the furnishings were not new but all in readiness.Ms. Bo sighed and said, “Her Highness wanted to let you reside in the Xiluo Villa, which is next to the fourth princess of the third rank so that you two can accompany each other! However, the dowager consort interferes and makes you live in such a lonely place!”Song Yixiao put on an obedient face, “As long as I can be with my mother, I am even