flstandardbreds Chapter 168 Suddenly
Chapter 168 Suddenly
In fact, Xiao Chen didn't believe the eunuch's words at all. After he and Zhuang Min were photographed, he had been waiting for this day.
He did not expose the eunuch's lies, but followed him back to the palace leisurely.
After entering the imperial study, Xiao Yuan waved his hand and drove all the palace people out. Then, he stared at Xiao Chen for a long time, and said with a bit of fatigue: "What are you thinking? As a prince, are you planning to degenerate like this?"
"Zhuang Min is just a rotten man who was raped and has a fickle nature. Why would you fall for a man like him when you can fall for anyone else?"
Even though Xiao Chen had anticipated that Xiao Yuan's words would not be pleasant to hear, the fact that they were so unpleasant was beyond their expectations.
"Don't keep calling him violent and fickle. Yu Gong is your subject. It's against the monarch's demeanor to speak ill of him. Yu Privately earns his own living and has not eaten a single grain of your rice, and has even paid you so much tax. It's not your turn to insult him." Xiao Chen said calmly.
The mother and son had a fierce quarrel and finally parted on bad terms.
——Xiao Yuan did think about imprisoning her son in the palace and not letting him go out, but Xiao Yuan had already anticipated that she would do this and said that if she was not afraid of a royal scandal in the media, she could do so.
In desperation, Xiao Yuan brought up Feng Jin's theory in the hope of making his son change his mind.
Xiao Chen sneered and said, "If Zhuang Min is sick, I would have been infected long ago. If he is not sick, doesn't it just prove that you are worrying too much?"
So don’t even think about breaking up.
Xiao Yuan was so angry that he jumped up and down, and said to Feng Jin: "For the New Year's Day gifts distributed by the palace this year, there is no need to prepare the one for Princess Hengyang's Mansion!"
Feng Jin was horrified, "Your Majesty!" Are you serious?
You should know that although people in the court and the public have noticed your suppression of Princess Hengyang, this is easier said than done. If you make such a fuss about it so openly, the old men in the court may not necessarily turn a blind eye as they did before.
"Just listen to me!" Knowing that he wanted to persuade her, Xiao Yuan didn't want to listen at all.
During every festival, the gifts distributed from the palace were often a weather vane for the court and the public. The emperor's recent favorites and dislikes could be seen from the gifts.
Although Ge Fu did not enter the officialdom, she was Xiao Yuan's niece and her mother was Ge Yao. When the palace distributed holiday gifts, the Hengyang Princess's Mansion was never missed. Not only that, she often received the most generous share.
However, this time, the ministers discovered that the wind was blowing in the wrong direction.
Princess Hengyang's Mansion did not receive any New Year's gift from the palace.
"Have you found out? You really didn't receive it?"
"I understand. I asked an eunuch I know in the palace and he said that this year's New Year's Day gifts have already been distributed."
"... Let's wait and see. Maybe His Majesty will personally deliver it to the princess."
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Similar words were said in many mansions. However, after two days of waiting and watching, New Year's Day had passed, and there was no sign that the one on the throne had made any compensation to the Hengyang County Princess's Mansion.
Ge Fu breathed a sigh of relief. It was just a New Year's Day gift, so who cares?
"It just so happens that I don't have to give a return gift to the palace." The New Year's Day gift from the emperor is indeed valuable, but it is not practical, and things made in the palace cannot be sold for money at will. What's more troublesome is that this gift must be returned. Can the gift from the top down be the same as the gift from the bottom up?
The holiday gift Xiao Yuan gave was worth several thousand or tens of thousands, but the gift she returned was more than ten times that.
She no longer wanted to do such a loss-making business.
I thought that this matter would just pass peacefully, and Xiao Yuan would just vent his anger. But one day, when Ge Fu was walking in the mansion after breakfast, the maid at the gate came running over and said, "Princess, the eldest prince has sent a New Year's gift to our mansion!"
She was quite happy and felt that the eldest prince brought honor to her master.
Ge Fu's face suddenly fell, he put on sunglasses and ran towards the gate.
When she saw the two trucks at the door and Xiao Chen standing in front of them, her face darkened. She walked over and dragged Xiao Chen to the mansion, scolding him as she walked: "Are you crazy? Originally, my aunt was just venting her anger, but if you do it again, she will definitely get back at you for something else. Aren't you really causing trouble for me?"
She was really a little angry now. It was already this late and she really didn't want to cause any trouble.
Xiao Chen curled his lips and said, "Then I'll make it up to you. Anyway, she can't do anything to you. The most she can do is to save your face."
"You also said that you were just trying to save face, why are you taking it so seriously?" Ge Fu frowned.
"That's different." Xiao Chen said, "Face is something that you can't get back once you lose it." Especially since Xiangxiang didn't enter the government, others had a dark history and worked hard to get promoted. For the sake of their official positions, everyone would forget about it. But Xiangxiang's situation would probably be remembered for the rest of her life. And he knew his mother best. If no one stopped her this time, Xiangxiang wouldn't get a share of the palace's festival gifts in the future.
If Xiangxiang was directly forgotten by the palace... that would not be a good thing. No matter how high your title or how rich your assets are, without the emperor's favor, someone will bully you.
That was something he absolutely would not allow.
Ge Fu's expression was somewhat complicated.
Of course she understood what Xiao Chen said, but this time was different from the past. Her primary concern was her children, and suffering a little loss in other matters was nothing.
——If Xiao Yuan really dares to humiliate her to death, then don't blame her for going to the court to ask her for her grandfather's relics.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xiao Chen started to chatter again: "I heard that you haven't been feeling well recently, so I sent you a lot of nourishing foods, such as blood swallows, white fungus, donkey-hide gelatin, and deer antlers. I also brought you a lot of jewelry, which I bought when I went to Mengsha Country before. I originally wanted to wait until after your birthday to give them to you, but now I'm giving them to you in advance. I'll prepare another birthday present for you..."
Ge Fu didn't want to listen to his nagging, so she interrupted him and asked, "Are you really together with that Zhuang Min?"
Although she was wearing sunglasses, Xiao Chen always felt that the other person's gaze was full of condemnation. He touched his nose and said, "He's a nice guy, I'll give him a try. Don't read those rumors, I'm not in love, and I won't be deceived."
Ge Fu looked up at him and said, "Then I'll trust you for once."
In the mansion, Xiao Chen didn't say anything, but on the way back he felt a little puzzled.
Why are most of the servants in Xiangxiang's mansion wearing white clothes and even dyeing their hair white? Xiangxiang is the same. Why is she wearing sunglasses so early in the morning?
He couldn't help but ask on WeChat.
Ge Fu replied: I recently wanted to create a painting with pure white as the theme, but I lacked inspiration, so I arranged it artificially.
Xiao Chen suddenly realized.