The following year, Concubine Jian gave birth to a son.

Because Concubine Jian suffered from an illness when she was a child, she was sent to Concubine Xiao's hospital to raise her after she turned one year old.

Concubine Xiao's maiden name is Xiao Zhi, she is from a noble background, and she is the granddaughter of the former first assistant Xiao.

It was Princess Duan's beauty in Tsing Yi who forgot to see her at the family banquet.

Speaking of which, Princess Duan is the wife of King Duan and the mother of the second son, and in the case that the second son is not suitable to be raised by his biological mother, it is serious that Princess Duan should be raised by herself.

But King Duan sent the second son to Concubine Xiao's courtyard on the grounds that Princess Duan's health was not yet well......

Princess Duan is very satisfied with this arrangement.

Ask herself, she can't treat her eldest son and Jane's second son equally, so in her opinion, it is really better for the learned and noble Xiao to raise the second son.

That's what she thinks, others don't.

In the back house of Duanwang's Mansion, the most important thing is a woman who is free and troublesome......

Regarding the matter of choosing an adoptive mother for the second son, there will inevitably be a lot of discussion in the house.

Some people praised Duanwang for being sympathetic to his wife, and at the same time secretly belittled that Princess Duan was useless, and that she was in charge of the middle feed and entertainment under the pretext that she was not in good shape, and now she didn't even do such a trivial thing as raising a concubine, so that Duanwang had to bother to deal with it personally!

Some people also vaguely pointed out that it was not that Princess Duan did not want to raise the second son, after all, the eldest prince occupied the heir and the longest, and was personally raised by King Duan, although the biological mother of the second prince was the niece of the queen, but the second prince could not surpass the eldest son anyway, even so, Princess Duan took the second son with her to raise her, not only did not have to worry about raising tigers and threatening the status of the eldest prince in the future, but also took the opportunity of raising the second son to ask the queen for credit.

By such inference, Princess Duan not only will not refuse to raise her second son, but on the contrary, she will actively fight for it.

But in the end, King Duan sent the second son to Concubine Xiao's courtyard......

The reason for this is probably because Princess Duan is not well-educated, and she can't afford to raise the second son.

Many people feel that this argument is justified.

Even based on this discussion, new discussions were born......

The reason why King Duan worked tirelessly to personally raise the eldest prince was just because Princess Duan was not in good health, but in fact, he was worried that Princess Duan, who did not learn and had no skills, would raise the eldest prince......

The rumors were boiling, but Princess Duan, who was at the center of public opinion, didn't care.

From a very young age, she was subjected to a lot of ill-intentioned criticism.

Before getting married, my mother rarely took her sisters out for socializing, and when she went out occasionally, she not only couldn't fit into the social circle of those high-ranking ladies, but also had to bear their disdainful eyes and discussions.

Just because, the Taining Hou Mansion relied on the merchants' money to support the court, and because the two Taining Hou ladies were both merchant girls.

Therefore, the self-respecting wives and their daughters naturally look down on her, her mother, and her sisters.

Even, not only the people outside, but even her father, repeatedly showed contempt for her mother in her speech, asking her to keep a distance from the people of the Shen family in Suzhou, so as not to be contaminated with their businessmen.

When she was ignorant, she believed deeply in her father and worldly ideas, and was deeply inferior and sad because of her origin.

But later, she gradually had her own thoughts and judgments, and noticed that some of the ladies and ladies who laughed at her were always wearing half-new silk shirts, and wearing ordinary, even hollow hairpin rings.

In Rongfu, the mother will always order clothes in advance for the master and the people in the house, her clothes and jewelry are customized from the best ready-to-wear shops in Beijing, Yinlou, every birthday, the relatives of the Shen family will also send her Suzhou, and even foreign fashionable clothes, for example, one year there was a young lady in Quanzhou Gan family who wore a pair of pearl embroidered shoes on the ceremony, the young lady of the Gan family was out of the limelight, this matter spread all over the country, when she passed the tenth birthday, the cousin of the Shen family gave her a pair of pearl embroidered shoes!

She understood that the so-called high doors that looked down on her and the merchants had long been rotten inside.

If there was no Shen family, the Rong family's situation would be worse than those families.

Poverty is not shameful, the shame is that lying on the merits of the ancestors do not want to make progress, the descendants of the losers who are indulged in leisure and hard work, and what is even more ridiculous is that those incompetent losers do not want to make progress, and they still look above the top, looking down on this and that.

Since then, she has not cared much about the opinions and opinions of others.

Those people no longer look down on the Shen family, the Shen family is still rich in the world, those people don't look down on her anymore, she also became the princess of Duan.

So, what's there to care about?

It's just that she doesn't care about the opinions and opinions of others, but she inevitably cares a little about King Duan's intentions and practices......

Xiao's upbringing of the second son is certainly much more suitable than her upbringing.

However, when it comes to it, the upbringing of the concubine is the responsibility of the mother-in-law, and what she cares about is that King Duan did not consult with her before making such an arrangement.

But what about care?

She and Duanwang are not ordinary couples.

Whether he would deign to counsel with her, or whether he would make up his own mind......

All she had to do was be obedient and cooperative.

This is not the marriage she was hoping for.

However, it's not that it can't go on.

Just like a mother, just like an eldest sister, how many women in this world have a satisfactory marriage?

Princess Duan thought like this, and her mood became more and more peaceful.

Later, her health gradually improved, she gradually became familiar with the middle feed, and the social exchanges gradually did not leak, the house behind the Duanwang Mansion was peaceful, and the two sons were healthy and intelligent.

The world talked about the princess and praised her wife De Jiayi.

Everything was smooth and beautiful.

In another two years, Princess Duan became pregnant again and gave birth to a son.

The youngest son was raised by Princess Duan's side.

Princess Duan was full of joy, but often felt ashamed of her eldest son.

When her eldest son was young, she was unable to take care of him herself.

When the youngest son was two years old, the emperor died, and King Duan ascended the throne with a testament.

Princess Duan became Queen Rong.

She wore a court dress with intricate embroidery and a delicate phoenix crown of Mingyao, and walked up to the white jade high level step by step.

On the high stairs, in front of the Jinluan Palace, the new emperor wore a crown of nine pearls and took her hand and whispered to her: "In the future, there will be Empress Lao." ”

She looked him in the eye.

There was still no expression on his face, and her reflection was in his clear eyes.

After several years together, she suddenly felt the joy in his heart.

Standing alongside him on the high steps, looking at the subjects and territories prostrate at her feet, she intuitively felt his ambition and responsibility for the first time.

He was carrying too much, but when he looked at her, he was still wholehearted and happy.

She suddenly understood him.

She gently shook his hand back, determined not to care about the trivial matters of the past, and to strive to be a good wife, a good mother, and a good queen.

Later, Empress Rong occasionally thought that if her eldest son had not died, the relationship between her and the emperor might have eased considerably.

However, the eldest son died.