Hu Zhaorong walked out of the gate of the main hall of Changkun Palace, looked at Concubine Cui Xian, who was walking in front, and called with a smile: "Sister Xianfei." ”

Concubine Choi Xian looked back at her.

Hu Zhaorong took the eldest princess and said with a smile: "I'm going in the same direction as my sister, I'll go with my sister, right?" ”

Concubine Cui Xianfei nodded.

The two walked slowly side by side, followed by the palace maid and eunuch, and in front of the eldest princess led the third prince to bounce all the way to see all kinds of flowers and plants on the roadside.

It wasn't until he was some distance away from Changkun Palace that Hu Zhaorong turned his head, looked at Concubine Cui Xian and gestured in the direction of Changkun Palace with her eyes, and said with a smile: "I don't know what my sister thinks of us, the new queen?" ”

Concubine Cui Xian's expression did not change, and she smiled lightly: "Since it is the successor set by the emperor himself, it is naturally impossible to go wrong with one in a million." ”

Hu Zhaorong raised his eyebrows and said, "Sister, just perfunctory me." "She was born well, and she has a charm when she raises her eyebrows and looks at people.

She straightened the shawl on her wrist, and then said, "I don't know how the queen will respond to the provocation of the concubine?" Looking ahead, he said, "It doesn't look like a bad-hearted person...... "Seeing that she doesn't seem to be kind to the eldest princess, she is also considerate and merciful to the third prince, but she is ......

"It's just that his temperament seems to be a little soft, isn't he a noodle melon?"

At the Winter Solstice Palace banquet a year ago, the concubine deliberately asked her to come forward to serve, and she went without saying a word. After the emperor's wedding, the concubine deliberately did not attend, and the queen did not say a word, and tonight's small banquet was also, the concubine even openly set up a stage in Zhaoyang Palace to slap her in the face of the queen, and the queen did not look angry, and she did not take any action.

Did she feel that the foundation of her first entry into the palace was unstable, so she temporarily chose to avoid the concubine?

But the harem is like this, either the west wind overpowers the east wind, or the east wind overpowers the west wind, and this concession can make people retreat to the sea, and they will never get up again.

Concubine Cui Xian said: "Let's wait and see, just look at the first queen, you will know that the people of the Lin family are dignified and virtuous on the outside, and they are also fierce on the inside." ”

Lin Cui is also a family of military generals, and has also dealt with a lot, when she did not enter the palace, her father sighed to her, there is no one in the Manchu Dynasty who can admire him, but only one Lin family can convince him. When the first emperor was fiercely contested for the crown prince, the emperor did not have an advantage, and his father couldn't choose a prince to follow several times, and finally the Cui family surrendered to the emperor, and more or less saw the Lin family and the emperor marry.

The Lin family has no shortage of strategy, vision, and loyalty, so it can survive several dynasties without falling, and the family has been prominent for hundreds of years. The girl who was carefully selected by the Lin family to be sent to the palace to be the queen didn't believe that it would be a melon seed.

Hu Zhaorong nodded and said, "Also, this woman who can enter the palace can see clearly at a glance." "Some women may not be able to be seen clearly in their lifetime.

Hu Zhaorong paused, and said: "The queen is the girl of the Lin family, and the Lin family is the foreign family of His Royal Highness the Prince. But looking at the performance at today's banquet, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't seem to be close to the queen. ”

Concubine Cui Xian said: "It's probably a child's heart, and I'm a little awkward in my heart." ”

Concubine Cui Xian looked at the third prince who was being held and taken care of by the eldest princess in the distance, and said: "My sister entered the palace after the emperor ascended the throne, and my sister didn't know about some previous things. When she was in the palace, the first queen loved the niece of the queen very much, not only the first queen, but also the emperor liked it very much, and often received it from the palace. The queen mother and His Royal Highness the crown prince are of the same age, the two have played very well since childhood, and the two children can be said to have grown up together. My sister imagines what happened to her, her cousin, who is the same age as herself and has gotten along well since childhood, suddenly became her stepmother, and she wanted to respectfully shout 'Queen Mother', and she was afraid that she would be awkward for a while. What's more, the prince has a deep relationship with him, and now that the emperor suddenly marries the successor, he may not feel that someone has occupied the position of the biological mother. ”

Hu Zhaorong thought about it, this statement was indeed reasonable, so he smiled and said, "It makes sense." I remember that when he first went one after another, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince almost cried so much that he almost swallowed his breath, and he couldn't understand it for a while, and it was understandable that the emperor married a new queen. ”

Concubine Cui Xian pursed her lips and smiled faintly.

In fact, between the new queen and the crown prince, Concubine Cui Xian has more complicated ideas, but there are some things that she has no evidence and can't declare. Not only could she not say it, but she even had to help cover it up, so she gave Hu Zhaorong this set of reasonable and reasonable explanations.

Concubine Cui Xian looked at her son who was smiling at the eldest princess in the distance, obviously he was already a ten-year-old child, but he needed to be taken care of by the six-year-old eldest princess. She sighed and said, "But my sister is right, the queen doesn't look like a bad-hearted person." ”

She is a mother who always has a good feeling for those who unleash kindness on her children. At the banquet, the three princes were rude, and the queen did not dislike or dislike it, but was patient and considerate, which always made her grateful.

Hu Zhaorong followed Concubine Cui Xian's gaze and felt pity for the third prince whose intelligence was only in the state of a child.

She was still a little disappointed because she was a princess instead of a prince when she gave birth to the eldest princess, but now looking at the third prince, she is glad that she gave birth to a princess, as long as she is healthy.

Hu Zhaorong persuaded Concubine Cui Xian with some sincerity: "My sister is still young, why don't you consider adding a younger brother or sister to the third prince?" ”

Concubine Cui Xian shook her head.

If the third prince is healthy, she may consider it, but since the accident of the third prince, even if she wants to have another child, she also tells herself that she only has the third prince in this life.

She understands the selfishness of human nature very well, when you only have one dress, no matter how tattered the dress is, it is also a treasure that you cherish. But if one day you get a new and beautiful dress, then you will discard the tattered old clothes.

The Three Princes are now this old dress.

If she has another child, she knows very well that when the time comes, she will definitely favor her love for healthy children, and when she looks at the third prince again, she may regard him as a burden and dislike him.

The emperor will not give much love to this defective child, and the third prince is already destined to have no future, if he loses her mother's love again, then there will really be nothing.

She gave birth to him, but she didn't protect him, and she couldn't let herself abandon him anymore.

In Changkun Palace.

After Concubine Cui Xian and Hu Zhaorong left for a long time, the prince still sat in the palace and refused to leave.

He looked at Lin Yan, who was sitting at the top of the main hall, dressed in gorgeous clothes, and said mockingly: "Congratulations to my cousin, I finally became the queen." ”

Lin Yan glanced at him with her eyes, and said in a cold voice: "Your Highness, you should call me the queen mother." ”

The prince became annoyed and got up from his seat and glared at her.

He knew that she did it on purpose, and she just deliberately reminded her all the time that she was now his elder.

Lin Yan didn't intend to comfort the fried prince, and instructed Mu Zhi: "Mu Zhi, send off." ”

After speaking, he stood up with Mu Qing's hand and entered the inner hall.