"Now that you're pregnant, you should run one less place and it'll be easier for you." Empress Dowager Chen laughed.
"Thank you mother for mother's compassion." Wang Rong said with a smile.
"Did the doctor say he was well?" The Empress Dowager Chen asked with a smile, "Actually, This Dowager said that there is no need to come and pay respects to us, but the Queen is so filial."
"This son knows that mother and mother are worried about the fetus in her womb. No matter how much palace maid says it, it won't be enough to comfort mother's mother." Wang Rong He said, "If Imperial Physician Liu says that your son's breathing is still unstable, then even if your son wishes to pay respects to Mother's mother, he will stay in bed without moving an inch."
"It's good that you understand." The Empress Dowager Li said, "The one in your womb might be the direct descendant of His Majesty, the future emperor, so you should prioritize him."
"Your son, your son, your mother, has always acted in strict accordance with the doctor's orders." "Perhaps after the fifth month of pregnancy, I will get used to it."
"You should be more careful now." The Empress Dowager Li frowned and said, "So why do we have to keep His Majesty at the Kunning Palace?"
"Only if the empress is pregnant isn't enough. Your Majesty, you have to have more children." The Empress Dowager Li said.
Wang Rong He's smile froze, and Empress Dowager Chen said with a bit of heartache, "Maybe His Majesty wants to stay in the Kunning Palace? Can the empress force His Majesty out? "
"Then the empress has to advise His Majesty as well. This is what the empress should do." The Empress Dowager Li said, "The empress is pregnant, so she can't serve Your Majesty."
"Your son will admonish Your Majesty." Wang Rong He could only speak obediently.
Returning to the Kunning Palace, Wuyou said a little worriedly. Did the empress dowager like the Empress Dowager or not? "Why do I sometimes feel like the empress dowager is protecting the Empress Dowager? But the situation today also seems like it's purposefully making things difficult for the Empress."
"Does the Empress want to hear my analysis?" Fangruo came in with a copper pot, and when she heard Wuyou say this she immediately said it.
"What ideas do you have?" Wang Rong asked with a smile. This time, Fangruo came to her side to wait on her, but kept a lot of low-profile, not saying much.
She knew that Wang Rong He wanted to use her, and she also knew that Wang Rong He didn't believe her.
She needed a suitable opportunity to show off her usefulness. In the Kunning Palace, there was no one who could replace her.
"The Empress doesn't like golden silk bun, and likes to use a crown to tie her hair. The Empress's crown is always shaped like a lotus, right?" Fangruo asked.
Wang Rong She nodded her head. "Could it be that the empress dowager dislikes the empress because she likes to use a lotus flower crown?" Wuyou felt puzzled.
One night when the lotus flower bloomed in the palace, the Holy Mother said that she dreamt of the Nine Lotus Bodhisattva displaying its true power. After that, the Empress Dowager Li was honored as the Nine Lotus Bodhisattva, and the citizens of the courtier no longer doubted the Empress Mother's power. " Fangruo said. At that time, all of Empress Dowager Li's weapons were decorated with lotus flower patterns, both inside and outside. "
"I didn't know that." In fact, she had always known the reason behind the change in Empress Dowager Li's attitude towards her. She was the empress that Empress Dowager Li had personally selected, so no matter how unhappy she was, Empress Dowager Li's attitude had changed after her.
After all, he used to be the Lord who kept his word in the palace, and now there was another who kept his, so it would be strange if he liked her.
But according to Fangruo, the empress dowager's authority far exceeded her expectations.
"Then in the future, the Empress can just make a crown without a lotus." Wuyou said.
Wang Rong smiled. "This will have to change to a peony pattern as well."
But there was no other way to please her more deeply. Furthermore, she was the Empress, and was about to have her own child. She had to be the sole Queen, not the Empress Dowager's follower.
This was a confrontation between their identities.
Even an ordinary daughter-in-law could obey their mother-in-law, but a daughter-in-law wouldn't be soft-hearted when it came to fighting for the housekeeper's authority. Not to mention that they were the daughter-in-law of heaven. Other than the butler, they also had their political status.
Zhu Yijun came to Kunning Palace, and asked Wang Rong, "Imperial Mother wanted me to advise Your Majesty that you don't need to always come to Kunning Palace, and I can't serve Your Majesty right now."
"I'll come as I please." Zhu Yijun said. "You don't have to worry about that. Just tell mother that it's me who is coming."
"Then I can't serve His Majesty right now. Don't His Majesty feel bored?" Wang Rong He said.
"This Emperor still wants to find a book to tell you how to relieve your boredom. How can I be bored?" Zhu Yijun said, "It's the same if we go to Kunning Palace to rest since we have favoured the latter in there. Otherwise, we would also be considered alone in there."
"If Your Majesty favors the later concubine, then set it up in Qianqing Palace. Please do not come to Kunning Palace by any means." Wang Rong He said.
"Why?" Zhu Yijun said.
"No reason, just not possible." Wang Rong said seriously, "I won't be happy, I won't be happy, and the child won't be happy in her stomach."
"I can't even bathe here?" Zhu Yijun asked.
"Can't." Wang Rong He said.
"How overbearing." Zhu Yijun said, "Could it be that we can't be fond of others while you are pregnant for the next ten months?"
"I didn't say that His Majesty couldn't favor others." Wang Rong He said, "I just said that after your majesty favors others, you don't need to come to the Kunning Palace."
"Otherwise, I would have had a difficult time carrying a child and His Majesty would have hugged me to the left and hugged me to the right before appearing before me again. This would have caused me to feel unbalanced in my heart." Wang Rong He said, "Your Majesty doesn't know that when a woman gets pregnant, she must use her life to win. When I fight for Your Majesty, Your Majesty must treat me well."
"Alright." Zhu Yijun nodded.
When the news of the Queen's pregnancy spread, it would be the Duke Yongnian Residence that was the happiest in the capital. The old lady clasped her hands together to thank the Bodhisattva for hurriedly going to the temple to pay her respects and even build a porridge shed.
"Grandmother, please don't be so anxious. Let granddaughter-in-law handle whatever Bodhisattva wishes for." Wang Houde's wife, Lady Zeng, said with a smile, "Prepare yourself, who knows when someone might come to pick you up from the palace."
"Then you will bring Old Third's wife to do it and then prepare. This time, you will follow me to the palace." The old lady said, "This is the Empress's first pregnancy, so there must be many things I don't understand. I can't even remember when I had a child. Go to the palace and tell the Empress that you can rest at ease."
"Sun Wife did." The Lady Zeng said, "Then what should we prepare? "This ordinary sister-in-law is pregnant, so her family has to deliver some gifts when they go to visit. Even if the Empress is at the palace, I don't know what's appropriate."
"Go and prepare as you wish." The old lady said, "It's all happy things, it's all Empress Xin's knowledge."
The old lady still had to go to her ancestral hall to kowtow and thank the ancestors for their blessings.
Wang Fuchang also heard the news in the Ancestral Hall, so she got someone to tell her mother, "The Empress is pregnant, she will definitely summon people to the palace, maybe she will even have her family stay there to accompany the children. Since Grandmother is young, let me enter the palace to accompany the Empress."
Lady Cui came to see her after hearing her, "What are you thinking?"
"I just want to take care of the Empress and chat with her." Wang Fuchang said.
"Don't lie to me, you're a piece of meat from my stomach, I don't even know what you're thinking." Lady Cui said, "Don't even think about it, when your own sister is in the palace, she would be even more beautiful than you. You still want to go to the palace? To put it mildly, Wang Rong will not let you enter the palace. Even if you enter the palace, you will only be like your sister. "
"Just keep it in mind." Lady Cui said bitterly, "You are now the empress's own sister, and are nothing but a daughter. There are many good people in the capital who want to marry you, and your grandmother will find someone for you. If you are still like this, your grandmother will really lock you away for life."
"I just can't accept it." Wang Fuchang said as two lines of clear tears rolled down her face, "In this house, I can't be as steady as the eldest sister, and I can't be as beautiful as the second sister. The eldest sister has a grandmother to protect her, the second sister has a mother to love, and I'm the only one who has grown up with a father that doesn't care about her mother, and now that eldest sister and second sister have entered the palace to serve the most respected man in the world, who else can I find that could compare to His Majesty?"
"All my life, I've been the foil of my sisters. It's like this in my daughter's room, even when I'm married."
"How can I accept this?"
"Are you not satisfied that you want to enter the palace? Just by entering the palace, you became stronger? " Lady Cui said resentfully.
"At the very least, wasn't His Majesty kind to me the last time?" Wang Fuchang said, "As long as I enter the palace, I will always find an opportunity."
"But the queen won't let you into the palace." Lady Cui shook her head, disappointed by her young daughter's stupidity. "Even your grandmother wouldn't let you enter the palace."
"If you have that kind of ambition, don't show it so clearly in the palace last time. Tell your grandmother and empress not to be suspicious. If you keep up the good work, maybe you really will be able to enter the palace to accompany the empress and wait for labor, and find a chance to stay in the palace."
"However, your actions from before have already been exposed. You no longer have the chance to do so." The Lady Cui said.
"As long as mother can enter the palace." Wang Fuchang grabbed her sleeves and said, "I am disguised as a little girl to accompany my mother in entering the palace. Even my grandmother found out, I can't be chased away.
The Lady Cui looked at her, "If I can enter the palace, then it will be as you said. If I can't enter, then there will be no need for talk. She had put so much effort into her eldest daughter that there was nothing she could do about her younger daughter now.
Ambition, but no wisdom.
What should I do in this life?
After Wang Rong He found out about the pregnancy, he did not immediately summon the people from the Duke Yongnian Palace to enter the palace. The news he received was that the empress was a little unsteady and needed to rest and recuperate.
When the people from the palace came to summon the old granny into the palace, the old granny calmed down and prepared to enter the palace with her grandson's wife. The Lady Cui came back fully dressed, the old granny looked at her, "Today you don't need to enter the palace, I will go with my virtuous wife and you stay at home."
"Mother." Lady Cui wanted to say.
"Don't say anymore." The old lady said, "I'm going to the palace to see the Empress. You go to the ancestral hall to talk to Shuang'er and tell her not to be too hasty."
In the Ancestral Hall, Wang Fuchang looked at her mother who was dressed in palace clothing as she entered, "Mother." She thought the Lady Cui was here to get her to change.
"Your grandma brought your big brother's wife into the palace. She wants me to talk to you and tell you not to be a b * tch." The Lady Cui looked at her younger daughter and said, "Your grandmother said that she doesn't want to personally send her grandson to the main hall."
Wang Fuchang sat on the ground, completely dazed.