Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1195 Zhen Huan Enlarged to 119

The Third Prince and the Fifth Prince had nothing to do and spent most of the day wandering around the Old Summer Palace. The two brothers soon resumed their previous routine of paying respects to the Jingren Palace. Even though Jiang Xinxin was exempted from paying respects to the concubines, they still went to pay respects to Jiang Xinxin every fifth and tenth day of the lunar calendar according to the rule.

Jiang Xinxin originally declined the request of the princes and their wives to pay their respects, but the Fifth Prince was very considerate and postponed the time of the payment to the end of the noon hour.

The Fifth Prince and his wife were both sweet-talkers and good at talking. Jianqiu thought it would be nice to have someone to chat with Jiang Xinxin for a while, so every time the Fifth Prince and his wife came over, she would greet them with a smile and thoughtfully prepare tea and snacks according to their tastes, and was very attentive in her hospitality.

As a result, the Fifth Prince and his wife liked to go out even more. After all, Jiang Xinxin would not let them waste their time accompanying her. From time to time, she would give them some small gifts. The amount seemed small, but when it happened many times, it was not a small amount that could be ignored.

The Third Prince was jealous of the Fifth Prince and his wife because they were favored by Jiang Xinxin, and was even more envious of them being able to get money from Jiang Xinxin. He turned to look at Qingying's residence. Fortunately, he still remembered that Lady Nabul had moved in, so he didn't dare to expose the family's dirty laundry. Instead, he felt the frustration of his mother, Concubine Qi.

The Third Prince secretly said that the Fifth Prince and his wife were flattering and greedy. The Fifth Prince also secretly told the Fifth Lady that the Third Prince was stupid. "My Third Brother was used to a good life in the first half of his life. He had never experienced what it was like to have brothers competing with each other. When he suddenly experienced it, he was completely panicked and at a loss."

The Fifth Lady agreed with him, stroking the red gold and gemstone lotus bead bracelet given by Jiang Xinxin on her wrist, and echoed, "When he was in the Qiandi Palace, it seemed that the Third Master was the only child. He was really a single seedling in a thousand acres of land. I'm afraid the Empress Dowager would pamper him and dare not neglect him in the slightest. No wonder the Third Master developed such a pure and innocent personality."

The Fifth Prince recalled what his mother, Concubine Yu, had guessed in the past, that the reason so many children in the Qiandi Palace could not be born was probably because of the conspiracy of the then-first wife, now-then-consort.

But looking back now, there must be something else going on. The queen was almost framed, or it could be said that she saved the righteous image of the children of Big Fat Orange from the hands of the mastermind.

The Fifth Prince's health was really poor, even worse than that of the Fourth Prince Hongli, who was born prematurely and had not been properly taken care of. Therefore, Concubine Yu had given up the idea of ​​competing for the position early on. After all, Concubine Yu had seen how diligent Fatty Ju was, and she also wanted the baby she had given birth to with so much difficulty to live a few more years.

Although the Fifth Prince is in poor health, he has a good brain. Yixiu was forcibly whitewashed by Jiang Xinxin. Although outsiders also feel that Jingren Palace seems to have a different person, no serious person would think that the core of the person has changed. Therefore, Concubine Yu and the Fifth Prince and his mother can only guess that the mastermind behind this may be the Empress Dowager, or even the Eighth Prince who lives next door to the Qiandi.

As for the many children who were lost in the Qiandi Palace over the years, Yupin felt that it was more likely that the Empress Dowager was the mastermind behind the scenes. After all, if the eighth brother next door could control the heirs of the Qiandi Palace in this way, then the person who came to power could not be Big Fat Orange, but the eighth brother.

As for the Queen Mother, Yupin felt that the Queen Mother had personally killed the heirs of the Qiandi Palace, because Jiang Xinxin's sadness was too superficial at the Queen Mother's funeral, and she could even occasionally see hatred and contempt flashing in Jiang Xinxin's eyes. So no matter how absurd her guess was, Yupin felt that the truth was probably that the Queen Mother had personally taken action to kill the heirs of the Qiandi Palace.

Otherwise it cannot explain why after the Empress Dowager fell, there were children in the harem one after another, and the last one to have a miscarriage was a princess from the Fourth Prince's mansion who was murdered by the bannermen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Concubine Yu didn't want to raise her child to be "innocent", so when the Fifth Prince was a little older and could understand some things, she told him many things combined with her own analysis.

To be honest, she couldn't understand why Empress Dowager Uya would take action against her own son's child, who was also her blood-related grandson.

When the Fifth Prince first heard his mother tell him these things, he didn't understand why the Queen Mother made such a decision. But now that he is married, he suddenly has the answer.

"The Queen Mother favors the youngest son, so even though she may be grateful to the eldest son for bringing her glory and status at first, if she feels that the eldest son can still be controlled by her, she will not hesitate to seize the eldest son's power and glory and impose it on her beloved youngest son."

"And coincidentally, the power and glory she has already enjoyed will not disappear with the ascension of her youngest son, which further encourages her to accomplish this."

Concubine Yu didn't know her husband very well. Her initial impression of him was that he was serious and rigorous, and later she also felt that he was blind. However, she could feel from the rumors outside that the Fourteenth Prince, the youngest son of Empress Dowager Uya, was an impulsive and reckless person. He might have some martial arts skills and was able to lead troops in battle, but he had no achievements in civil administration.

So when Big Fat Ju just came to the throne, she didn't believe the news spread by the Eighth Prince's party that the late emperor intended to pass the throne to the Fourteenth Prince.

Therefore, she still couldn't understand why Empress Dowager Uya looked down on her eldest son, Da Pangju, and even wanted to harm all of Da Pangju's descendants.

She also felt that the reason given by her own son was unreasonable: "No matter whether the emperor or the fourteenth prince is on the throne, the empress dowager is still the empress dowager, but the emperor's attitude towards the empress dowager is very different from the fourteenth prince's attitude towards the empress dowager."

"The Emperor is a reserved person. Even though he disagrees with many of the Queen Mother's decisions, he will not easily reject them. Your Fourteenth Uncle cannot do this."

The Fifth Prince compared himself to his wife, the Fifth Lady, and said, "Mother, look at your son and Lady. Your son treats you just like his Fourteenth Uncle treats the Empress Dowager, and your father treats the Empress Dowager just like Lady Dowager treats you."

"In terms of closeness, of course my son is closer to you. Even if you and your wife are harmonious mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, you can always be polite when you get along with each other."

Yubin was really shocked by the analogy she made to her son, but she finally understood the Queen Mother's true attitude towards Big Fat Orange.

It is true that Da Pangju is the Empress Dowager's biological son, but Da Pangju was indeed raised by Empress Xiaoyi until he was twelve years old before returning to the Empress Dowager. At that time, Da Pangju had already moved to the Prince's residence to live on his own, and did not need the Empress Dowager to take care of him in daily life, so the relationship between mother and son was not pure.

The Queen Mother only regarded Big Fat Ju as not completely her son, so she was naturally closer to the youngest son who was not only her child but also her last child, and the maternal love she poured into him was naturally greater and purer.