The Concubine in the Palace_The Feast of Masks【Complete】(127)

Since then, she has had an extra handkerchief.

Princess Jin retracted her divergent thoughts and slowly came back to her senses. She lowered her eyes and smiled, saying, "Why, I was just dazzled by the sun."

Princess Yong breathed a sigh of relief and said with some hesitation: "Then how have you been these past few years?"

It seems that after asking this question, the next words will come out easily. There is a melancholy in Princess Yong's tone, "I have always wanted to see you these years, but unfortunately I have never had the chance. Every time I come to Beijing, I think this time I will definitely I can meet you, but I never see you coming.”

"I am in poor health and cannot withstand long journeys, so I rarely go out. If it hadn't been for my father's long life, I might not have entered the capital this time."

"That's right. I forgot that you were in poor health."

Princess Jin smiled lightly: "Yes, after all, it's normal to forget after not seeing each other for many years." She glanced at Princess Yong, and then lowered her eyes: "I wonder if there is anything else going on with Sister-in-law of the Fourth Emperor? If it is okay, I want to go back ” Her eyes were on the other person’s hand that was holding her.

As if she had been burned, Princess Yong let go of her hand, with a trace of embarrassment on Mingyan's face.

"I have nothing to do. I just see you standing here alone..."

"Then I'll leave first." She lowered her head and wanted to leave.

But before she could take a step forward, she was pulled back by Princess Yong again. While pulling, she met the other person's eyes. Those eyes were filled with pain, struggle, and guilt. She forgot to move her eyes for a moment.

"Yan Ru, I have always been worried about you. If we could have held back that time... Actually, I didn't expect that things would be so coincidental that they would collide... Do you know that I have lived through these years? It's very hard. You know the situation of my family... I have no choice but to flatter him and be a qualified princess... I thought you understood me, I thought you could do it too, but I absolutely didn't. Thinking of... do you know that I heard that you have been unable to conceive in these years, and I feel very worried for you. With our status, we are destined to live for something, we must submit, we must..."

"Stop talking!" Princess Jin suddenly shouted, stopping Princess Yong's incoherent remarks.

She took a deep breath and seemed to be looking into the other person's eyes, but in fact her eyes were unfocused.

"I'm fine. I'm fine like this. You know my body. I'm not doing it for you or anything, I just can't help it." She smiled, "So you don't have to explain or feel guilty. What's more, Don’t blame yourself.”

"I have to go."

With that said, she turned and left, walking a little hastily.

"Then are we still friends?" A voice came from behind.

She paused for a long time before nodding.

"That's good." She heard her voice of relief, so she walked even faster.

At noon, we had a banquet at Kunning Palace.

After the banquet, as soon as they left Kunning Palace, they saw King Jin walking over with Xiaobao in his arms.

Without further words, the group left the palace gate and returned to Prince Jin's Mansion.

King Jin seemed to have been drinking, so he did not ride a horse, but rode in the same car with Yao Niang. On the way, he told Yao Niang that the imperial edict to choose a day was coming down.

There was no beginning to the end of these words. Yao Niang was a little stunned for a moment, but she soon realized that it was an imperial edict to confer her as a side concubine.

If he was unhappy, it must be a lie. He only mentioned this to her once, but he didn't expect Menbu Shengshen to handle it so quickly.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

King Jin snorted, looking a little unhappy.

Yao Niang was a little surprised by his reaction. She couldn't help but wonder if King Jin was reprimanded in front of the Holy Emperor because of the concubine appointment.

But when he looked at Prince Jin seriously, he found that his eyes were focused on Xiaobao.

Xiaobao is small and has little strength. Usually when riding in a carriage, adults will hold him in their arms or find a soft place for him to sit on. At this time, he was sitting on a big pillow that Yao Niang made for him before leaving Jinzhou.

The pillow was very soft, wide and big. When he nestled in it, it was like a small bed specially made for him. He was half leaning on it lazily, playing with the car curtains in his hands, but in fact he was listening to the conversation between King Jin and Yao Niang.

King Jin looked over, he paused, and then continued to play as if nothing had happened.

Until Yao Niang asked: "Your Highness, why do you think so of Xiaobao?"

King Jin sneered, Yao Niang didn't know why.

"Ask him!"

Chapter 102

These words made Yao Niang confused. She looked at King Jin and then at Xiaobao.

It turned out that just now in the Qianqing Palace, after Emperor Hongjing took Xiaobao in, he ordered his personal eunuch to check the red mole behind his ear. After confirming that it was correct, Xianqing Yizhi also came and sat there talking to Xiaobao.

One is deliberately clichéd, and the other is deliberately pretending to be naive, but they complement each other.

All in all, it only relies on Xiaobao's words, plus what King Jin said before. Emperor Hongjing pieced together that the mother-in-law was a good girl with a kind heart. In fact, if you think about it, it's true that his son did something wrong to the girl back then. He was a grown-up girl, but the man was pregnant but the man was gone. The key is that he didn't know where to find her.

A person goes through all kinds of hardships to give birth to a child, and is even kicked out by his family. A woman has to take care of a baby. You can imagine the hardships.

"Your mother is a miserable person. Forget it, I won't pursue the matter of your father fabricating a false life experience for a woman who came out of the fireworks willow field. She is a little brat. When she grows up, her wings become hard, but I still don't know... …”

Emperor Hongjing had no idea that if the King of Jin really wanted to hide it from him, it would be fine if he did it somewhere else, but it was possible in Jinzhou. The reason why he did half and kept half was just a deliberate act in his position.

The Daqian Dynasty went through four dynasties. From the beginning of the dynasty, it exercised a centralized means of power.

After Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, in order to strengthen his rule, he divided all his sons into vassal states in various places. These vassal states are roughly divided into two types. One is located in the important border areas, and they are granted military power to control the troops along the border and defend against the Tatars. The other is stationed in various provinces in the interior to supervise local officials.

Fearing that the vassal kings were too powerful and threatened the centralized rule of the monarch, Emperor Taizu specifically stated that the kings "only listed the titles but did not rule the people, and divided the vassal states but did not grant the land." In fact, in plain words, the vassal kings only had the power of supervision, but did not hold the military and political power.

However, this is not applicable to the vassal kings whose fiefdoms are located in the important border areas, because since they control the troops, they must hold the military power. For example, among the princes, Dai Wang Jian, Yong Wang Ting, and Jin Wang Tang were all Sai Wangs, and they controlled hundreds of thousands of troops according to their locations.

Among them, Jinzhou was located in a fortress and had the strongest military force.

There is no father and son in the royal family. This sentence has been used in all dynasties. Appropriate exposure of some flaws is just a means to reassure the rulers.

Perhaps Emperor Hongjing also understood this, but it was just a tacit understanding.

When he came out again, Xiaobao was still held by Emperor Hongjing, but there was an extra jade button in his hand. Fearing that he would eat it by mistake, Li Dequan also ordered the palace maid to weave a red rope and put it on it and hang it around Xiaobao's neck.

Afterwards, Emperor Hongjing gave a banquet, and Xiaobao became famous again at the banquet. I am afraid that the whole Forbidden City now knows that the Jin Wang family has a son who is young and talented, and is very favored by Emperor Hongjing.

After listening to the story of the King of Jin, Yao Niang reached out and fiddled with the jade button hanging in front of Xiao Bao: "I was wondering where this thing came from, but I didn't look closely."

Xiao Bao moved his butt uncomfortably. The pillow was too soft and he almost fell over. Fortunately, he still had the curtain in his hand. But Xiao Bao let himself fall there. He finally got up. He seemed a little confused. Seeing that his parents were looking at him, he burst into tears.

After crying, Yao Niang immediately forgot why her son didn't call her father, and hugged Xiao Bao to coax him.

While coaxing, she scolded the King of Jin: "Why are you so mean to him? He is so young, how can he understand anything. According to what you said, my Baoer has become a little freak. Children are like this. Maybe he will call him father in two days."

The King of Jin sneered and stared at the little boy who was used to pretending.

This kid is a little freak.

It's a pity that the little freak was lying in his mother's arms and was comfortable, so she didn't have time to pay attention to him.

East Palace, but just before and after, the crown prince Zhao Zuo received the news from the Qianqing Palace.

I heard that the fifth uncle, the Prince of Jin, had a remarkable child, who was very much loved by the emperor's grandfather, and even let the emperor's grandfather hold him on his knees to feed him. Zhao Zuo just smiled faintly and said nothing more.

He was born tall and slender, gentle and refined, with an innate noble temperament. Although he was only eighteen years old, he didn't look like a young boy of this age at all. Instead, he was confident and in a stable situation. He was no less cunning than those old ministers in the court.

In fact, it was true. Zhao Zuo was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

When he was born, his father was the prince, his mother was the princess, and his grandfather was the current Hongjing Emperor. Because of his talent, he was loved by Hongjing Emperor since he was a child. Later, as the crown prince became more and more dazzling, he even took up most of the glory of his biological father, the prince.

According to the current development trend, everyone has no doubt that when the old emperor passes away, the throne will probably be passed directly to the grandson of the emperor, bypassing the prince.

"I thought that the King of Jin was also an outstanding person, but I didn't expect that he was no different from His Royal Highness Prince An and others. Every time he came to the capital, he would rack his brains to please His Majesty. He always used the same old tricks and only used a child to please people. Little did he know that the stupid and ignorant child was not as smart and talented as the grandson of the past. In my opinion, it must be the exaggeration of the subordinates."