flstandardbreds Chapter 495: Princess in the Deep Palace 9
Chapter 495: Princess in the Deep Palace 9
Chapter 495: Princess Nine in the Deep Palace
Situ Jin also valued Su Tong a little more. At least the other party was not a naive person. Even though he did not like his new wife, they were in the same boat now, so he did not want his helper to be a fool.
The hot spring village is indeed a holy place for recuperation. The book boy thought that the weather was getting colder and colder. Although he could still eat green vegetables now, it was because the emperor gave it to him after he was almost poisoned and framed by others. It would be gone soon. After entering winter, fresh vegetables in the north were basically extinct. Apart from radishes, cabbages, potatoes and onions, there was basically no edible vegetable.
Su Tong saw that the temperature of the hot spring device was particularly good, so he found a housekeeper and built a special vegetable planting base to utilize the temperature of the hot spring device for planting. At the same time, he asked someone to bring a lot of cabbages and pickled some sauerkraut.
There are many kinds of sauerkraut. One is sauerkraut pickled with cabbage, and the other is sauerkraut pickled with kale. The latter kind of sauerkraut can be used to make sauerkraut fish, which is especially delicious. Combined with spicy pepper and chili, you can't stop eating it at all.
Su Tong also wrote down his recipe for pickled cabbage and made it public. Sauerkraut is everywhere anyway, and if it could add another dish to the table of ordinary people, it would be a good thing.
The combination of sauerkraut and pork belly is oily but not greasy. Moreover, in the middle of winter, the dignitaries who are used to eating meat will find the sauerkraut so sour and appetizing when they take a bite.
Su Tong also gained a good reputation due to the sauerkraut incident. When people talked about her as the Crown Princess, they all said that she was kind-hearted. At the same time, they did not reject her just because she was a princess of the Southern Kingdom. This was considered a good thing for her.
So far, he and the prince have not consummated their marriage, but Su Tong is not in a hurry. The original owner is only 16 years old this year, so he can wait at least two years.
Another month passed in a blink of an eye, and the weather outside was getting colder and colder, but they were still enjoying the beautiful scenery outside the window. Not only that, but they also successfully harvested the vegetables they had planted before and sent them to the palace as quickly as possible. Not only did they receive praise from the emperor, but they also received a large reward.
"Since the emperor and the empress in the palace like to eat them, let's send all the vegetables we grow over there." Su Tong lowered his head, his eyes calm.
Chun Yi said a little aggrievedly: "Princess, you planted those vegetables yourself."
Su Tong raised his head and blinked at the spring, "The winter is hard, if we can let our father taste a few more delicacies, it would be a filial piety for the younger generation like us."
Chun Yi sighed in a pretentious manner and looked out the window. "Since the beginning of winter, the prince has never left the house. He said he was not feeling well. Sigh..."
The other party is not in poor health at all, he is obviously in very good health. To be precise, he is not in the manor now. The one in the room now is a fake. Of course, I will not run over to expose him. After all, the interests of both parties are the same.
This year's New Year's Eve palace banquet was supposed to be a happy day for family reunion, but the Fourth Prince, who was controlled by Concubine Xian, joined forces with his own uncle, General Ding'an, to rebel. All the sons born to the Queen were killed, and even the remaining princes were not spared. Even those who were not killed on the spot had their limbs cut off or their faces disfigured to varying degrees.
Just when the fourth prince thought he could ascend the throne, the crown prince appeared in front of everyone wearing a crinoline, stopped the rebellion in time, and took control of the power.
When the emperor woke up, he found himself suffering from a stroke, with a crooked nose and slanted eyes. He learned that his son was either dead or disabled. Especially when he saw the prince leading the ministers and appearing before him, and they did not look sick at all, the emperor understood everything at once.
There is a saying that goes, "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit." The emperor has already failed, and now the only one he can rely on is this one son. The other sons have either become disabled or have joined the fourth son in rebellion. He can only give the throne to the crown prince, but he did not issue an abdication edict. Instead, he let the crown prince govern the country first.
The emperor had originally planned to wait until his health gradually improved before taking back power bit by bit. However, his health did not improve. Instead, it took a turn for the worse, getting worse day by day.
The emperor initially suspected that it was his son who committed the murder, but there is no son in the world who would poison his own father. No matter how ambitious this child was, it was impossible for him to poison his own father. Otherwise, once the historians knew about it, he would be cursed by all the people.
But the emperor's health was getting worse day by day. Su Tong also returned from the hot spring villa, but did not move to the prince's mansion. Instead, he followed the prince directly to the palace. He used the prince's rebellion as an excuse to purge the entire palace and placed his own people there.
The emperor did not make it to the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet on August 15th, but everyone in the court knew that the emperor was in poor health. Several ministers had previously submitted memorials requesting to meet the emperor, and the prince had agreed, and from time to time he would bring a few regent ministers to attend to the emperor.
Therefore, in the eyes of those court ministers, the emperor was so angry about his son's rebellion that his health deteriorated day by day, and he finally died on the eve of the family reunion on August 15th.
The death of the previous emperor and the ascension of the prince to the throne were all undisputed matters. The only controversial issue was Su Tong's identity. Su Tong herself was a princess of the Southern Kingdom. It was said that a princess of a country and a prince of a country were a match made in heaven. However, there was a saying that went, "Those who are not of my kind must be killed." No one wanted the position of queen to be taken by a woman from another race.
Many court ministers submitted memorials, asking the emperor to select a beauty for them, and even requesting that Su Tong be appointed as a noble concubine, but definitely not as the empress.
Su Tong was not afraid of these ministers. As early as when the Emperor of Jingguo was seriously ill, she had written a letter to her motherland, mentioning her name as a possible candidate to become the queen, but she needed the full support of her motherland.
Her father was not a fool. He married his daughter to the prince because he thought that the prince might die young, and his daughter would be a widow. Death was death anyway. But there was another good thing, that is, the prince would survive and his daughter would become the future heir to the throne.
Today, the position of Queen is not a game between the new emperor and the court, but a game between countries. Undercurrents are surging in the court, and even the new emperor's attitude is somewhat ambiguous. It seems that he has no intention of making the prince the Queen, but he has no intention of opposing it either.
Knowing that Su Tong tasted poison in the food, although he didn't know whether it was his cheap neighbor who had done the poison or other ministers, adhering to the principle that they were husband and wife and should share the difficulties, Su Tong turned around and put poison in the prince's food. He was afraid that he had not put enough poison, so the prince's food, drink, and feces were also mixed with some poison.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if I die, as long as I have the prince by my side. This way, I will have someone to accompany me on my journey to the underworld. I don't know if the prince will conduct a thorough investigation for the sake of my life.