kingnovel Chapter 372 Shocking words
Chapter 372 Shocking words
Chapter 372 Shocking Statement
Xie Run was not modest and said with a smile: "Reward!"
"Everyone who helps Wu Baolin during childbirth will be rewarded!"
"You guys do your job well. Tomorrow, when the Emperor and Empress hear the good news, I'm afraid there will be a reward."
The voices of congratulations from palace maids and eunuchs rang out all around.
Concubine Sun took the opportunity to show her embarrassment and asked hesitantly, "Wu Baolin has done a great service by giving birth to a prince, but according to palace rules, Wu Baolin may not be able to raise the child herself."
Xie Run and Concubine Wen both looked at Concubine Sun.
Both of them subconsciously thought that Concubine Sun had thoughts about the child.
Unexpectedly, Concubine Sun changed the subject and said, "Wu Baolin had a difficult delivery, and it's winter now. It's not easy for her to carry the newborn Seventh Prince around. Why not let her take care of the child first and wait for the Emperor and Empress to issue their order tomorrow?"
Xie Run's mood became increasingly strange.
Concubine Wen was not someone who could make decisions, and she fell into hesitation when she heard Concubine Sun's words.
"It's such a big thing, it's not easy for us to make a decision directly?"
Xie Run glanced at Concubine Wen and said, "But this is about the Seventh Prince. Only the Emperor and Empress can make arrangements. We can't send someone to disturb them in the middle of the night."
Xie Run's tone revealed an attitude of "If you want to go, go ahead, I won't ask for trouble myself."
Concubine Wen retreated instantly.
Xie Run said smoothly: "At this point, this is the only way to do it."
"But it's only for one night. When the Emperor issues his decree tomorrow, the Seventh Prince's fate will be determined."
Concubine Sun bowed respectfully and said, "Then I would like to express my gratitude to Concubine Zhaode on behalf of Wu Baolin and the Seventh Prince."
"I can't really call it a favor." Before leaving, Xie Run took off a bracelet from his hand and handed it to Dan Tao: "Give this bracelet to Wu Baolin and tell her that I'm giving her a gift for the birth of the prince."
Dan Tao took the bracelet with both hands, "Yes."
The reason why Dan Tao was sent to deliver the baby was because there was an imperial physician in the delivery room, so as to check on her and avoid any trouble in the future.
After receiving the good news, Xie Run took his men back to Showa Palace.
As soon as she arrived at the palace, she saw Aunt Xu's anxious face, "Your Majesty, you are finally back. The Fifth Prince has been refusing to sleep and has been making a fuss looking for you."
Xie Run laughed and said, "Why is he making a fuss about looking for me?"
Taotao had not slept in the same room with Xie Run for a long time. Normally, he would go to bed on time at night and would not make a fuss looking for Xie Run.
As Madam Xu walked, she said, "I don't know who told the Fifth Prince about staying up all night to celebrate the New Year's Eve, but he insisted on staying up all night with the Empress."
"In the past, the Prince would have gone to bed by this time. But today, he lay on your bed and insisted on seeing you before he would go to sleep."
Xie Run had a helpless smile on her face. When she walked into the room, she saw a chubby little boy wrapped up in a round shape rolling on her bed.
As he rolled, he shouted, "I want my mother! I want to stay up all night with my mother!"
"Where is my mother? Did you hide her?"
Xie Run opened the curtain and said helplessly, "Taotao?!"
Tao Tao, who was throwing a tantrum, heard Xie Run's voice and her eyes suddenly lit up, "Mother, you are finally here!"
"You're going to kill your son!"
Xie Run almost fell down and looked at Tao Tao in astonishment, "Who taught you to say that?"
Tao Tao said proudly, "My son thought of it himself!"
Xie Run raised his hand and poked him between the eyebrows, saying with a smile: "Do you know what this means?"
Tao Tao nodded seriously: "I miss my mother!"
Aunt Xu on the side said helplessly: "It seems that those servants usually speak without restraint, and our Fifth Prince heard them and started to imitate them."
"Children of this age really love to imitate others' speech."
Xie Run thought that she had to be more careful with her words in the future, to prevent Taotao from learning things he shouldn't and saying shocking things occasionally.
Speaking of intelligence, this kid is indeed a bit clever.
Sometimes being smart makes people love you, and sometimes being smart makes people annoying.
Xie Run poked his eyebrows and said, "Mother is back, shouldn't you go back to your bed and sleep?"
Tao Tao shook his head: "I want to stay up all night with my mother."
Xie Run was helpless: "Do you know what staying up all night is?"
Tao Tao nodded repeatedly: "Set off fireworks!"
Xie Run sighed, "Finally I know why you're not sleeping and making a fuss here so late at night."
Now, as long as he is involved in fun, Taotao becomes like a wild horse that has broken free from its reins and is very difficult to manage.
Xie Run originally wanted to grab him and spank him, so that Taotao would go back to his room crying.
Just as she was thinking, her hand fell on Taotao's head.
Xie Run squatted down and met Tao Tao's eyes, looking at him levelly, "Tao Tao, you have another little brother."
Taotao looked at Xie Run blankly, not quite understanding what Xie Run meant.
Xie Run only chuckled and said, "Mother is very happy."
The more children there are in the harem, the safer Taotao will be.
As for what will happen in the future, she doesn't care about that. She only wants to raise Taotao safely.
"Taotao is happy too!"
Taotao laughed foolishly.
Xie Run pulled him into his arms and pinched his face, "Don't eat anymore."
"He's still young, so it's okay to be a little fat. If he gets any bigger, he'll become a little fat boy."
Tao Tao: "Not fat! I'm strong!"
This was what Aunt Xu often praised him for, and he had learned it by heart.
Xie Run laughed.
"Everyone is gone?"
Wu Baolin asked the question with a weak look on his face.
The palace maids serving her were wiping the sweat off her body, and an old nanny was holding the newly born seventh prince.
Palace maid: "My lord, the ladies have all gone back."
"Before leaving, Concubine Sun mentioned that according to palace rules, Master, you may not be able to personally raise the Seventh Prince."
Wu Baolin's expression changed slightly, and he said angrily, "I knew she had ill intentions and had set her sights on my child. Now she's finally showing her true colors!"
The maid was startled and said quickly, "Master, you misunderstood."
"Empress Sun said that your delivery was difficult, and now it's winter, it's not easy to carry the newborn Seventh Prince around. She suggested that you take care of the child first and wait for the Emperor and Empress to issue an imperial decree tomorrow."
Wu Baolin was stunned. "Would she be so kind?"
The maid lowered her head and said, "I dare not lie."
Wu Baolin thought about what he had just said and felt a little annoyed. He blamed the maid: "Who told you to breathe so loudly? You almost made me misunderstand Concubine Sun."
Although he didn't want to accept Concubine Sun's kindness, he also didn't want to show his fickleness in front of the servants. "If you report like this again next time, I will punish you severely!"
The maid felt wronged, but dared not argue, and continued, "I dare not make a decision on such a big matter. Concubine Zhaode said it would be inappropriate to send people to disturb the Emperor and the Empress so late at night, so she decided to keep the Seventh Prince with the master for now."
After hearing this, Wu Baolin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
When she was giving birth, Concubine Sun suddenly ran over and scared her so much that she almost died.
She always felt that Concubine Sun had ulterior motives.
Even though Concubine Sun helped her give birth, Wu Baolin still believed that Concubine Sun suddenly became kind just for the sake of the baby in her belly.
Unexpectedly, after giving birth, Princess Sun just went back like this.
She was very tired after giving birth, but she was afraid that someone would take her baby away, so she held on and refused to collapse.
Now that the dust had settled, she breathed a sigh of relief, and all the fatigue and pain in her body surged up.
She said in a hoarse voice, her face full of anxiety: "Hurry up and bring the Seventh Prince to me!"
The palace maid wanted to say something to persuade him, but when she thought about how she had just been scolded, she suddenly stopped talking.
He glanced at the old nanny holding the child, and saw that she lowered her head and looked very obedient. He suddenly understood and followed the same posture.
Wu Baolin held the child in her arms, her heart overflowing with maternal love.
When she thought that this was the royal heir born from her belly, and that he would be her support and reliance for the rest of her life, she felt that the wounds on her body were not so painful anymore.
If she had a higher position, she could raise the child herself...how wonderful it would be.
As he thought about it, Wu Baolin couldn't help but burst into tears.
She couldn't feel at ease until she got the emperor's oral order.
The old nanny and palace maid beside her did not dare to persuade her and just stood aside with their heads lowered.
When Princess Sun's sedan chair was halfway there, it suddenly started snowing heavily.
She simply got off the sedan chair and walked by herself.
Her personal maid held an umbrella for her.
"Your Majesty, with all her good intentions today, has been busy running around for Wu Baolin's birth. Not only did she miss the palace banquet, she didn't even say a single kind word, and she's even been suspected and misunderstood."
"This servant is really feeling sorry for you."
Concubine Sun said slowly, "It's better to have a misunderstanding."
The maid looked at her in confusion.
Concubine Sun: "The six palaces have all misunderstood me and made me suffer injustice. Can't the emperor feel a little pity for me?"
"Today's incident happened suddenly, but I was caught in it. Even though I know it's caused suspicion, I still can't pretend not to see it."
Princess Sun looked extremely annoyed.
"It's true that I have an old grudge against Wu Baolin, but I have no grudge against the Seventh Prince in her belly. Just consider it as accumulating blessings for yourself."
Such a good opportunity, why would she miss it just to avoid suspicion?
Everyone misunderstood her, thinking that she had harmed Wu Baolin, or that she was pretending to be kind just for the sake of the newborn seventh prince.
But it wasn't her who did it. She was just trying to help out of kindness, but ended up being misunderstood.
If there are more shocking things, they will gradually reverse the bad impression she left on everyone.
No one else matters. What matters is changing her impression in the minds of the emperor and empress.
If she was an unreliable person, the emperor might not let her raise the child even if it was her own.
If she is reliable, even if she cannot support the Seventh Prince, there will still be the Eighth Prince and the Ninth Prince in the future.
There are not many high positions in the harem nowadays, and reliable high positions are even rarer.
She just needs to sit firmly on the throne of a concubine and use the means and demeanor of a concubine to be convincing.
When there are more royal heirs in the palace in the future, the emperor will always think of her when he looks for a foster mother.
This is her ultimate goal.
Even a fool like Xian Zhaoyuan can support the Sixth Prince. She has patience, strategy, and family background and status. What is there to worry about?
If she schemed all kinds of schemes to raise the child in Wu Baolin's belly, her greed would be exposed and her methods would be too despicable. She would easily end up with something more than she achieved, which would make the emperor completely disgusted.
The former needs to be patient for a period of time, but can gain a good reputation, be favored by the emperor and empress, and have unlimited benefits.
The latter carries too much risk and too little reward, making it not worth it.
Princess Sun remembered that she still had a play to perform tomorrow, and she felt more relaxed and contented.
How can you go far if you only know how to plot and scheme?
She has the ability to get what she wants through fair and open means.
The second day was New Year's Day, and the emperor held a ceremony in the Purple Palace to write the word "Fu". He wrote the word "Fu" himself and posted it on the palace gate. He also wrote many more "Fu" characters to reward the princes, relatives, ministers of the previous dynasty, and the six palaces.
Next, the emperor accepted congratulations from all officials, the empress and empress held a ceremony to worship the gods, and then he took the six palaces to meet the empress dowager.
After going through a set of procedures, the day passed.
During the first seven days of the new year, the emperor and empress had no time to spare.
The seventh prince was left to be raised by Wu Baolin.
It was not until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year that Hua Zhaorong suddenly mentioned that it was inappropriate for the Seventh Prince to be raised by Wu Baolin.
After hearing this, the emperor thought carefully and had the seventh prince taken to the prince's residence.
Xie Run had been helping the queen deal with the affairs of the six palaces, and only had time to relax on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.
I finally managed to get a nap, but I missed this great show.
When she woke up, Dan Tao combed her hair into a bun, and Xiao Shu muttered in her ears, "I heard that when the Seventh Prince was taken to the Prince's Residence, Wu Baolin didn't care that she was in confinement and chased him all the way to the palace gate."
"If we chase him any further, it will be a mess, and the emperor will be angry too."
Xie Run slowed down and rubbed his temples: "It's not easy to sing this on New Year's Day..."
Dan Tao said softly, "But rules are rules. Raising the Seventh Prince by Wu Baolin's lap for seven days is already an exception. If she keeps him any longer, I'm afraid people will talk about it."
Xie Run thought that there would indeed be people talking about it.
But no one expected Huayu to be the one who got caught in the act.
Xie Run asked curiously, "Why is Hua Zhaorong meddling in Wu Baolin's affairs instead of focusing on her pregnancy?"
Xiao Shu: "Your Majesty knows this. Hua Zhaorong always acts on impulse. Who knew that Wu Baolin had caught her eye?"
"Although rules are rules, forcibly separating mother and child... If it was the emperor's order, it would be fine, but the emperor and empress don't remember it. Hua Zhaorong got involved. I'm afraid Wu Baolin will hate Hua Zhaorong in the future."
"The Emperor and Empress might not forget this..." Xie Run felt that the Emperor probably hadn't decided who would raise Wu Baolin's child yet, so he said softly, "It's just that things are going on during the New Year. Wu Baolin has already been raised for a few days, so it's just as easy to raise him until the festival. It would save some trouble. Now that Hua Zhaorong has said this, the Emperor has to intervene even if he doesn't want to."
Xie Run really couldn't understand Hua Yu's train of thought.
She mentioned something for no reason to someone she had nothing to do with, and what good could come from her getting herself into trouble by seeing a mother and child separated during the New Year?
This matter was discussed not only by Prince Showa, but by all six other palaces.
Although Wu Baolin is not likable, Hua Yu's behavior is even worse.
Everyone will have children one day, and no one wants their child to be taken away as soon as it is born.
Xie Run paused, then suddenly seemed to react. "Wu Baolin gave birth to the seventh prince, which is considered a merit. Why didn't the emperor promote her?"
Xiao Shu and Dan Tao looked at each other and hesitated for a moment before saying, "It seems that we haven't heard the news."
Xie Run was puzzled. Doesn't this seem like the emperor and empress's style of doing things?
Is there any explanation for this matter?