Empress Xiaozhao

"Empress, this one has always been at ease when you do things. Now that the Emperor was able to add another heir, the Empress could not help but contribute greatly. If not for the Queen opening the source and allowing the Ministry of Internal Affairs to fill up the treasury, who knew how many years this war would drag on. The empress's hard work in the past few years has been seen by me. After all, the past few days have passed, and the empress can accompany the fourth prince when the time comes. "

The empress dowager was making a promise to the empress that as long as she passed this hurdle, the empress would be able to relax. However, it was impossible to say what time it would take to cross this hurdle. After all, there were two stepwives who were pregnant. If there was a second one by Kang Xi's turn, even the empress herself would not be able to relax.

The empress didn't believe that the emperor hadn't tampered with the issue of the empress dowager's heir. If there really were no problems, then the one giving birth to the eldest son of the Emperor should also be the empress. However, in the years that Suo Ni was alive, the empress did not have any happy news at all.

Now that she could not be pregnant, the empress herself did not care at all. She was already being nurtured by Fourth Prince Yin Zhen and the empress was already satisfied. Not all princes could live well until they reached adulthood. When the empress had raised the fourth prince, she knew that it was extremely difficult to protect the safety of a prince.

It was a good thing that the fourth prince had been placed by the emperor by his side. Although the imperial concubines had applied some ointment to their eyes, it was still a small matter. No one dared to scheme against the prince by the empress's side openly. It was just that, in the end, Imperial Consort De was a heartless person. For him and Sixth Prince, he didn't care in the slightest about the fact that he was the eldest son.

Since the last time Imperial Consort De was persuaded by the system to leave, she had been very obedient for nearly half a year. Regeneration Palace who did not have another imperial concubine gathered together. When they came to pay their respects to the empress, they were very well-behaved.

This was not good news for the empress. The empress would never believe that the imperial concubine of the harem could really be settled. Unless they were plotting something bigger, with Imperial Consort De's personality, she would never stop. As a result, Imperial Consort De's actions had garnered the attention of the empress.

"Keep an eye on Yonghe Palace. Even if a fly flies out, you have to write it down and report it to me." The empress was not afraid of the Imperial Consort De, but was more concerned with the empress of the Fourth Prince's side.

The empress wouldn't simply assume that the fourth prince was still young. Nothing is clear, nothing is clear. However, the Fourth Prince was now five years old. A three year old child that had already begun to enlighten was able to understand many things.

It wasn't that the empress wasn't willing to let the fourth prince understand, but the best time to know the truth wasn't right now. The empress had been tidying up everything that had been said about the imperial harem for the past two years, especially the matter of the fourth prince's mother.

However, ever since Yin Zhen had found out about a part of the truth half a year ago, the empress knew that he had to find a chance to explain the entire situation to Yin Zhen. After all, there was still a difference between a biological mother and an adoptive mother. Furthermore, his identity as a direct mother was definitely not ordinary.

"Yin Zhen is in front of Frontier. Frontier has something to tell you."

After she had busied herself with the issue of the heirs of the two imperial concubines, the empress decided that it would be better if she could quickly discuss the matter of Yin Zhen's birth with him.

Although the royal heir was important, selecting a wet nurse was naturally something that had to be done by Ministry of Internal Affairs. No matter how bad their plans were, they should at least be worried for their own eldest mother, Tonja's and herself. As a Queen Mother, time was also very precious.

If these small matters were to be dealt with by the empress one by one, then there would be no need for Ministry of Internal Affairs to exist. All, arrange matters so that the Ministry of Internal Affairs follows the rules. The Queen did not care anymore, the bodies of Tong Yurao and Imperial Consort Yi were also properly taken care of by herself.

After all, they were people of high status within the harem, so naturally, they held the heirs with more importance than the empress. Even if the empress had no children, she still had the fourth prince to support her. Moreover, the emperor would never be as muddle-headed as the late emperor.

Tong Yurao naturally accepted the empress's goodwill. Although it was not Tong Yurao's marriage, the Empress's second sister-in-law was still surnamed Tong.

"How could I not accept the empress's good intentions?" The Queen difference person sent the best Yun Jin to the Imperial Concubine. Although it wasn't an exception, there weren't as many Yun Jin as right now. The silk could not be considered precious, but it had the meaning of a queen.

Tong Yurao thought that the Empress probably did not have the mind to manage the harem anymore. After all, the Fourth Prince and the Empress did not seem to be happy together, and those who were well-informed in the harem would all know about it. No matter how much the empress hid, as long as she was sincere, she would know.

"Right now, the empress is eagerly wanting to show goodwill to the Fourth Prince. See, this wasn't born on her own, she really isn't familiar with him. "The empress has spent as much effort on the fourth prince as she has on that man from the East Palace." In the end, the birth mother said two sentences, but the fourth prince didn't want to be too intimate with the empress.

Tong Yurao now felt that she was right in not keeping the Fourth Prince by her side in the first place. Although she had complained about the Emperor before, with the Queen as the comparison, Imperial Concubine felt that her mood was slightly better now.

Being on good terms with the empress did not mean that they would have to be on good terms in the future. The Tong Family did not need to rely on the Di Fang and Lu family in the past, but it was still the same today. However, even though her heart was filled with countless thoughts, Royal Concubine still made people stay in Regeneration Palace.

Furthermore, the empress had specially visited Si Huangziyinzhen at the Southern Three Houses, which was already an exception. The Emperor ruled with filial piety. The Empress had put the Fourth Prince in a state of unfilial filial piety. However, the empress had other plans of her own, so she naturally wouldn't let such a weakness fall into her mouth.

"This son pays his respect to Frontier, and pays his respects to Frontier."

Originally, Yin Zhen could not be considered as a very cheerful person. But now, after being treated indifferently by the empress for half a year, his heart was indeed not feeling well either. The empress still called on him every few days, still concerned about food and clothing. However, Yin Zhen could feel that the empress wanted to say something to him.

Yin Zhen didn't want to hear it. Back then, when he knew that he wasn't the empress's flesh and blood, he was afraid of her in his heart. He was afraid that the empress would no longer care and protect him like she did in the past. If the empress didn't protect him within the imperial harem, Yin Zhen knew that he wouldn't be so happy now either.

It wasn't that he didn't think about it before, but if the empress really centrifuged with him, he could only ask the Emperor Amma to raise him up to the Imperial Consort De s of Yonghe Palace. Yin Zhen already knew that the Imperial Consort De s of the Six East Palaces were his birth mother. However, Yin Zhen was still reluctant. How Frontier treated him in the past four years, was something he truly thought of as his own son.

"It's been a long time since your mother has hugged your mother's fourth prince, right?"

As the empress spoke, she bent down and carried Yin Zhen who was in front of her. All the servants behind her jumped in fright. Even the deceased Queen of Mercy couldn't compare to the current Queen, but now the Queen had actually disregarded the rules. It was truly inconceivable.

"When Frontier first embraced the Fourth Prince, when Yin Zhen was only half a month old, the Emperor carried the Fourth Prince to the Kunning Palace and handed him to me. This is the first time I hugged such a small prince."

"At that time, Yin Zhen was so skinny and small, I was truly worried. I didn't mention anything about the East Palace. At that time, the Eastern Palace was already right in front of the Emperor, but they still occasionally came to the Kunning Palace to eat with me. When the East Palace saw their little imperial brother, they felt joy in their hearts. At that time, I was thinking, in the future, when I become the fourth prince's assistant, East Palace will be like the current emperor and Prince Yu. "

The empress naturally wouldn't just hold onto the fourth prince without moving. It wasn't as if there were no gardens in the south, which coincidentally happened to be winter. However, a few days ago, she had dropped out of university. Thinking about it, the Red Plum of the Southern Three School was at the time of her haughty and beautiful appearance. All the empress took the fourth prince to the Plum Garden of the Third South Inn.

"The reason why Frontier did not tell Yin Zhen everything, is because he did not want Yin Zhen to be disturbed by the imperial harem. But now, it seems that Frontier's thoughts are one-sided."

After all, the empress had lived like a prince for many years, and the Fourth Prince was not light at all. After the empress carried him for a long distance, she sat down with Yin Zhen in the Plum Garden's small pavilion. The small pavilion had a stove, so it didn't feel cold.

"Eternal Harmony Palace's main Imperial Consort De is Yin Zhen's biological mother. The Fourth Prince of the Imperial Consort De probably knows about it too, so the eldest mother won't say much. It would be good if the Fourth Prince wanted to visit the Imperial Consort De more often. After all, it's fine if she didn't know it in the past, but it's not like that right now. "

"As for the Frontier, the Fourth Prince doesn't need to feel that the Frontier won't treat Yin Zhen well in the future either. Frontier will always be Frontier. " The empress could only tell Yin Zhen this, that in the past when they were raising the Eastern Palace, the crown prince would naturally have an emperor to advise them. Although all of Yin Reng's relationship with the empress was closer than others, but in the end, he still knew who his birth mother was.

As for Yin Zhen, because the empress had intentionally hidden it from her, there had been no news at all in the past. Initially, according to the rules, a bastard child being raised in front of a direct mother was nothing much. However, everything had to do with the royal family, so the matter was unclear. Besides, the empress had purposely concealed it from him.

"Frontier, this son is only worried. If Frontier feels this son is not sensible and gives this son to mufei, then this son shouldn't always be heading towards Kunning Palace." The education a prince received was the way to rule a country, the way to become a king and subject. But his teacher had never taught him that the mother he had always thought was not his own.

To put it bluntly, Yin Zhen was just afraid. If the Empress were to give up her son, what should she do? Yin Zhen had been to Yonghe Palace before so he had some understanding of Imperial Consort De. Si Huangziyinzhen had seen it before with his own sixth brother, Yin Zuo. The Imperial Consort De doted on her son, and it was understandable. However, Yin Zhen understood that even though he loved him dearly, it did not include him at all.