Shen Qiaoran still remembered that Xiao Jue had just returned to Beijing after winning the battle last year, and His Majesty held a banquet specially for him.
At the banquet, the step-concubine of King Yong specially brought her natal niece to meet Xiao Jue. Everyone could see the meaning of this.
This Miss Wang San is also the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister You, and she is also known as a virtuous person in the capital.
At this time, her pretty face turned red with embarrassment in front of Xiao Jue, and everyone present did not envy Xiao Jue's good fortune.
Who would have expected that Xiao Jue would not even give her a glance when facing the girl's eager eyes.
The step-concubine of Prince Yong changed her expression on the spot, but even though she was a dignified concubine of Prince Yong, she was only a step-concubine.
But Xiao Jue was the original wife of Prince Yong, the legitimate eldest son of Prince Yong Xiao Shen, the crowned heir apparent in the palace, and the real young prince of Prince Yong's palace.
Therefore, no matter how angry Princess Yong was that Xiao Jue had disgraced her at the palace banquet, she did not dare or could not say anything in front of everyone present.
After all, even if others don't know it, as Princess Yong, she naturally knows how much her prince values his eldest son.
When Xiao Jue was a child, Mrs. Wang also had other ideas, but before she could implement them, Xiao Jue was taken away from the backyard by Prince Yong and brought up by his side. At the same time, he also gave her a clear warning that from now on From now on, the Wang family will not be allowed to interfere in anything related to the crown prince Xiao Jue.
In the days that followed, Prince Yong Xiao Shen treated Xiao Jue very harshly. He had to rise from the rooster's crow every day to practice kungfu and learn martial arts. Later, he personally took him to meet famous teachers to learn literature and martial arts.
The prince has always been strict with Xiao Jue, but he is very tolerant to other young masters in the house.
Everyone in the palace was secretly talking about it. Sure enough, if he has a stepmother, he will have a stepfather. The prince has lost his mother, and the prince treats him worse than the bastard in the palace...
Wang saw this in her eyes and heard it in her ears, but she could only sneer secretly. She did have some ideas, but from beginning to end, Prince Yong never gave her any chance.
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Of course, Shen Qiaoran didn't know what was going on in Prince Yong's palace, but he clearly saw Xiao Jue's attitude toward the Wang family girl at the palace banquet, and the third girl Wang's eyes turned red on the spot.
Xiao Shizi was born into a noble family. He had been beaten by Ma Jing since he was a child, and he was full of red-sleeved moves.
It's not that Shen Qiaoran is belittling himself, but his sister is probably not as good-looking in Xiao Jue's eyes as he himself.
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Time flies so fast, half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period of time, Li Chun was inevitably a little uneasy at first, fearing that Xiao Jue would not keep his word, or that the Shen family would come knocking on his door at the next moment.
But slowly, as the days passed, there was no movement from Xiao Jue and the Shen family.
What happened that day was like a dream, as if Li Chun was the only one who remembered it, and no one else mentioned it again.
As a result, Li Chun finally let go of this worry and happily looked forward to the reply from the Lin family.
Unexpectedly, before the reply was received, what was waiting was a message from Cining Palace, ordering Mrs. Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to enter the palace immediately.
Naturally, the Queen Mother's decree could not be ignored, so Li Chun, confused, could only urge his old wife and his eldest daughter-in-law to enter the palace immediately.
Unexpectedly, Madam Li, her mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law packed up and entered the palace, but they were stopped outside Cining Palace.
Lin Dehai, the eunuch in charge of the Cining Palace, held a white whisk in his hand and did not look at the Li family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. He just said condescendingly: "The Queen Mother is tired, just wait." He sneered and turned back to the palace. .
Only the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Li family were left looking at his back, their faces turning green and white.
No one in the palace knew that Lin Dehai had been serving the Queen Mother since he entered the palace. Now, decades later, he has become the confidant of Queen Mother Lin.
It can be said that Lin Dehai's attitude represents the attitude of Queen Mother Lin in a certain aspect.
Therefore, even if the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Li family were unwilling to do so, they did not dare to show it on their faces. They could only kneel down on the hot bluestone with low eyebrows.
Poor old Mrs. Li, who was very old, entered the palace in full make-up, but did not even enter the gate of Cining Palace. She knelt outside the palace gate where people were coming and going for two whole hours.
If it hadn't been getting late and the palace gate was about to close, I'm afraid it would have been even longer.
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Later, the Li family learned that on the day the Li family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law entered the palace, the queen was also "invited" to Cining Palace.
As a queen, she entered the palace gate smoothly, but when the Li family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were kneeling outside the door, the confused queen was scolded by the queen mother in front of the concubines in the Cining Palace.
Then, when she returned to Kunning Palace exhausted both physically and mentally, and before she had time to ask what was going on, Emperor Chongming, who had come all the way, scolded her in front of his servants.
When she finally figured out what was going on from Emperor Chongming's words, Empress Li felt extremely angry.
Mrs. Li had said before when she entered the palace that her father, Li Chun, wanted to marry the third prince to the Lin family as his concubine.
Although the queen was not very willing at the time, she also knew that Queen Mother Lin was from the Lin family in Jiangnan.
If your prince can also marry a daughter of the Lin family, it will definitely increase the prince's weight in the Queen Mother's heart, and it will definitely be of great benefit to the future.
So Empress Li nodded and agreed to the matter, and expressed very generously that she was willing to treat her as a princess.
You must know that your prince is the legitimate son of the middle palace. Except for the eldest prince who died long ago, he is the most noble prince. This is not comparable to the two sons of Shen Qingyao's lowly life.
Being able to marry her prince as a concubine would not be considered as a disgrace to the Lin family's reputation.
Empress Li was very confident about this, but who knew that later, her father sent a message saying that it would not work out.
If it doesn't work...it won't work.
She was not very satisfied with this marriage, so at that time, she only scolded the Lin family for being disrespectful and gave up.
But I don’t know what my father thought. Later, he wanted to marry Lin’s daughter for his fourth nephew.
The queen had always been fond of her talented nephew, and had once thought of marrying her fourth princess, Xiao Mingxuan, to him.
In this way, if your daughter marries back to her natal family and can become the head matron of the Li family in the future, she must not be able to bear any grievance.
Besides, having the young couple under her own care can also bind the Li family and her third emperor's son more closely together.
Originally, her mother agreed with her intention, but she didn't expect that something went wrong with her father...
No matter what, her father was the left prime minister after all, and everything he did was for the future of the Li family.
Although she was a queen, she had no favor or power in the palace. For many years, she could only rely on her natal family.
Only when the Li family is better can she and Huanger be better off.
So, Queen Li hesitated for a long time and then agreed.
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