Chapter 6: The Virtuous Crown Princess
The original owner was called Li Xinyue. She was born in a family of dukes and marquises. Her father and brother held military power. She was a lady from a noble family who was trained as a lady of the royal family. She was dignified and generous with a broad vision. Her life was one of wealth and glory that she could foresee at a glance.
And this is indeed the case. She was granted marriage to the prince at the age of sixteen, married into the Eastern Palace and became the crown princess at the age of seventeen, gave birth to the crown prince's eldest son at the age of twenty, and when she was twenty-five, the previous emperor passed away and the crown prince ascended the throne. She was named queen, and when she was forty, the emperor passed away and his son ascended the throne, and she was promoted to empress dowager.
But an accident happened. In the second year after she married into the Eastern Palace, the prince went south to suppress bandits and fell into the river and lost contact. Originally, on the second day after the prince fell into the river, the prince's guards found him and brought him back to the capital for treatment.
But an accident happened. The prince was rescued by a time-traveling girl. On the way back, the prince hit his head and lost his memory. He could not remember his identity and name, so he stayed in the village, fell in love with the time-traveling girl, got married and had children.
By chance, the prince recovered his memory and returned to the capital with the time-traveling girl and their two children. He ascended the throne. Under pressure from Duke Jingguo, he named the original owner the queen and the time-traveling girl the imperial concubine.
But the original owner did not have a good life. Before the prince came back, she used her dowry to support the prince's several concubines and concubines, and she worked hard. After the prince came back, he disliked her for taking the position of the time-traveling girl (queen) and treated her very badly.
Although she was the queen, the phoenix seal was in the hands of the imperial concubine. The emperor favored the imperial concubine alone, and there were only children born to her in the palace, but the people scolded the original owner as a jealous queen.
Finally, the emperor framed Duke Jingguo for collaborating with the enemy, took the opportunity to seize the military power, exiled all nine clans of the Li family, deposed the original owner from the position of queen, and banished her to the cold palace.
The original owner died in the cold palace, and her body was cleaned up by the concubines who had come out of the Eastern Palace together.
The original owner's frustration was not about the prince's love, nor about the queen's dignity, but about the fact that three generations of Jingguo Duke's ancestors were loyal to the royal family, defending their country, but in the end they became infamous and were hated by everyone.
When she got the chance to be reborn, she gave up her own rebirth and wanted to find someone who could protect the entire clan and do it for her.
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"Crown Princess, the eldest princess caught a cold last night, and Concubine Yang sent Qiu Shui to ask for leave." Taohong, the original owner's dowry maid, bowed and said.
"Have you asked the imperial physician to see it?"
The eldest princess Haoyue is the eldest daughter of the prince and the most favored by the prince. Concubine Yang often uses this to steal his favor. In the previous life, the original owner used a little trick to bring the eldest princess to the main courtyard for a period of time. After that, Concubine Yang became quiet.
The women in the prince's backyard are not very scheming. They just use some small tricks to win favor. If it were as bloody as in the TV dramas, even if the time-traveling girl came, she wouldn't last more than three episodes.
But this is a sweet romance story, and they are the control group, right?
But this is good news for Zhang Shan. She is not a good person and she will use extraordinary measures in extraordinary times.
After paying her respects, Zhang Shan went into the palace to serve the empress at mealtime. The empress was surnamed Zhang. Empress Zhang was the emperor's third empress and gave birth to seven princesses.
The second empress, Cui, died of complications during childbirth. The fifth prince, whom she gave birth to with great effort, fell into the Thousand Carp Pond when he was five years old. He had a high fever in the middle of the night and no one noticed him, so he became mentally ill due to the fever.
The first empress was the prince's biological mother and also the emperor's white moonlight. The prince was so loved by the emperor because of this white moonlight, who could be said to be the prince's amulet.
"Your son pays homage to the Queen Mother. May the Queen Mother be well and safe."
Queen: "Princess, please get up quickly."
The Queen and Li Xinyue are also related in some way. She is the cousin of Li Xinyue's mother. The Queen in her previous life did not have a good ending. After all, she occupied the position of Queen of the Prince's mother for so many years. How could the Prince allow the Queen to continue to sit on the position of Queen Mother?
Zhang Shan sat next to the Queen. The palace maids served the dishes to her. She ate whatever the Queen ate, and she would not eat until the Queen put down her chopsticks, then she had to put down her chopsticks too.
"The Emperor intends to send the Crown Prince south to suppress bandits. Bandits are rampant in Jiangnan. You should prepare more clothes and healing medicine for the Crown Prince. He may not need them, but he must have them. I have some excellent wound medicine here. You can take it later."
The queen came from a military family and still had some supplies of golden wound medicine.
Zhang Shan would naturally not push away good things, but whether to give it to the prince or not was another matter.
After taking two bottles of golden wound medicine, Zhang Shan planned to return to the East Palace. She didn't dare to wander around the Imperial Garden because the emperor was still flirting with his concubine inside, and the guards stationed there were not invisible. She must be blind to not see them.
The prince will go south to suppress the bandits in seven days. He has been lingering in the backyard these days, comforting the women in the backyard who are worried about him, and he enjoys doing it.
On the last day, the prince stayed in the main courtyard. The two did not do anything. They just slept under the quilt. After all, even a teddy bear could not work for seven consecutive days.
The main courtyard was full of the original owner's people, who kept a tight control on the situation. No one else could get any information, let alone know whether the main courtyard had called for water. Zhang Shan slept peacefully and got up early to see the prince out.
The prince stayed in the backyard for seven consecutive days and took "tonic medicine" for seven days. Zhang Shan took a covert look between the prince's legs, but finally felt uneasy and gave him another strong dose of medicine.
After eating the loving breakfast prepared by the Crown Princess, the Crown Prince left in high spirits, riding on his tall horse, looking like a respectable gentleman.
Zhang Shan remembered that after the prince left, the concubines who slept in the backyard all became pregnant. Zhang Shan also gave him a dose that overdrawed his body, and the last dose was a powerful infertility drug. As for whether he could still be humane, it depended on the ability of the time-traveling girl.
This is a relatively early sweet romance novel. The heroine doesn’t have much space spiritual spring, so Zhang Shan feels more at ease.
The fifth prince was not born stupid, but his brain was damaged. He was not pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger. He was indeed stupid. Although he was not welcomed in the palace, because he looked the most like the emperor, no one bullied him.
You bully him because you have a problem with the emperor he looks like?
Want to rebel?
Zhang Shan had someone use a rattle to lead the fifth prince to the cold palace. After washing him clean, he was sent to her bed. With the help of pregnancy medicine, the system quickly detected signs of life.
But the emperor still found out about the Fifth Prince. Although he punished the palace maids and eunuchs who often teased the Fifth Prince, he was still very proud of himself. He liked the Fifth Prince because he liked him.
Zhang Shan: “…”
There's no need, he just wants to borrow a seed.
Three months later, news of pregnancy came frequently from the East Palace. The emperor was happy for a short while before he heard that the prince had fallen into the water and had not been found since then.
"Find it, find it for me!"
The emperor had a conspiracy theory, thinking that his other sons were plotting against the crown prince, so he had people guard the East Palace to preserve the crown prince's bloodline.
With the heroine's halo around, the secret guards sent by the emperor naturally returned empty-handed.
Ten months passed in a flash, and the children of the Eastern Palace were born one after another. But except Zhang Shan who gave birth to the little grandson, the others were all girls. Zhang Shan didn't have to do anything at all, after all, they all gave birth to girls in their previous life.
No one suspected what Zhang Shan had done. After all, before the original owner married into the Eastern Palace, the prince already had six princesses, and the only little grandson was a girl who traveled through time.
On the other hand, after the prince was rescued by the time-traveling girl Jiang Ling'er, he lost his memory. He had no choice but to stay in the village and help the heroine with her business, starting with selling cold wild vegetables.
There are wild vegetables everywhere in the mountains, but the two of them sell them quite well, which is outrageous.
Jiang Ling'er gave the prince a name called A Yao. Coincidentally, there is also a word "Yao" in the prince's name.
A year later, A Yao and Jiang Ling'er got married. On their wedding night, Xiao Yao couldn't get up. They were embarrassed for a long time, but they truly loved each other. Love without sex is the purest love, Jiang Ling'er hypnotized herself.
From that day on, A Yao felt very inferior. He saved money and secretly went to see a doctor. The country doctor was also half-baked. After understanding his situation, he said that he had a brain injury, which affected his sexual intercourse.
The doctor fooled him, but A Yao didn't know it. He thought that after his brain was cured, he would be able to bring happiness to Jiang Ling'er.
Six years later, the crown prince has not been found yet, but the emperor's health has already failed. Except for the crown prince and the fifth prince, the other princes were either abandoned or killed by the emperor, and none of them was left to be seen.
Among this generation of imperial grandchildren, the oldest is the little grandson Zhao Xi, born to Zhang Shan. He is seven years old, but Zhao Xi is smart and clever, and the emperor likes him. After waiting for no news about the crown prince, the emperor still considered Zhao Xi.
Zhang Shan was worried that the prince would regain his memory and come back to seize the throne, so she asked her trained assassins to intercept him halfway. On the way back to the capital, the prince fell off his horse and broke his leg.
I can’t travel long distances in a short period of time, so I can only rent a small courtyard to live in and recuperate.
The one who takes care of him is his true love Jiang Ling'er, but Jiang Ling'er has no shortage of admirers, either traveling doctors or wealthy businessmen, which makes the prince eager to return to the capital, restore his status, and surpass his rival in status.
But he was too late, Zhao Xi had already ascended the throne, and the prince's appearance was slightly different from before. Some of the people who knew him were no longer alive, while others did not dare to recognize him because of the power they had just acquired.
In addition to raising children, many of his concubines could not stand the loneliness and cuckolded the prince, and did not want him to come back.
So, when the prince came back to seize the throne and said he was the prince, no one acknowledged him.
The prince was thrown out of the capital in a miserable state. Jiang Linger was also very disappointed and left with the rich businessman.
But the rich businessman already had a wife, and it was a "business marriage" with good skills. For Jiang Linger, the rich businessman broke away from his family. Under the suppression of his original wife, the two returned to the small town to sell cold dishes for a living.
After the prince was abandoned by his lover, he wandered around the capital, trying to run into Zhang Shan or the young prince Zhao Xi. When he had no food, he begged. He was too embarrassed to do that at first, but he got used to it after a while.
In order to consolidate power, Zhao Xi recalled the imperial uncles who were banished to the capital. Some of them knew the prince's plight and knew it was impossible to save him. You know, it was because of this idiot prince that the late emperor got angry with them.
Some people became so angry that they found out that Zhao Xi didn't care about this "father emperor" at all, so they tricked him into the mansion and tortured him, and after killing one family, they moved on to another.
And Zhao Xi was still playing in the mud with his silly "father" in the garden. The handsome young man was slapped in the face with mud by a little fool.
He said angrily: "I will never play with you again!"
The little fool panicked, quickly put away his smile and chased after him to coax him.
Although the Fifth Prince is a fool, no one bullies him because of his appearance, and no one dares to tease him. He is happy all his life. He can be considered a fool with good fortune.
Zhang Shan was promoted to empress dowager at the age of 25. In order to take care of Zhao Xi, she did not find a lover. When Zhao Xi grew up, she no longer had any ideas. She lived a life of wealth and glory, and enjoyed endless enjoyment.
The Jingguo Mansion has been guarding the border for the royal family. Except for rebellion, they can continue to serve the country with this honor for the next hundred years.