roccoschili Chapter 163 Come and give the chapter gift
Chapter 163 Come and give the chapter gift
Chapter 163: Before I could develop ambitions
However, just having more concubines in the harem was not shocking news to the families in the capital.
Time enters May.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the emperor was becoming lazier and lazier day by day. He even stopped attending court meetings and handed over all government affairs to Li Ce.
Li Ce was so busy that he lost a lot of weight. Finally, on the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, he got some free time to go to Yichun Palace to spend the festival with Jiang Wanyue.
When he arrived at Yichun Palace, Jiang Wanyue was not in the inner room. Only the wet nurse and the palace maids were playing with Xu'er.
Xu'er was wearing a tiger coat and tiger-head shoes, sitting on a bamboo couch, rocking a wooden toy in one hand.
Seeing Li Ce coming in, Xu'er grinned with a happy smile and shouted "Ahhh" towards the door.
Li Ce picked up his son.
"Daddy is here! My dear~"
Xu'er let out two more "ahs", and Li Ce sat down with him in his arms with satisfaction, talking to himself.
At this time, Jiang Wanyue walked out from inside.
"Your Highness?"
She was a little surprised.
"Are you done with your work? I thought I wouldn't be able to see you until the evening!"
"Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the court is on holiday. I can't be the only one doing this, right?" Li Ce held his son in his arms and weighed him. "Has Xu'er lost some weight recently? Has he not been eating well?"
"He's been teething lately!"
Jiang Wanyue walked over and saw that Li Ce's collar was covered with her son's saliva, and couldn't help but say something.
"Your Highness's clothes are dirty, should you change? I don't know what this child is made of, he drools a lot. Your Highness?"
Li Ce didn't care. He rubbed Xu'er's forehead with his nose and said proudly.
"Xu'er just called me daddy!"
Jiang Wanyue widened her eyes, a look of disbelief on her face.
"Really?"
He turned his head and looked at the nurse.
The nurse stepped forward and told her what had just happened.
Jiang Wanyue was speechless for a while.
"Your Highness has good hearing. You are sure Xu'er is calling daddy with just one shout?"
"Definitely is!"
Li Ce looked as if it was a matter of course.
Jiang Wanyue raised her hand to support her forehead, not intending to argue with him. She picked up Xu'er and urged him to change his clothes.
When Li Ce changed his clothes and came out, the room had been tidied up again. On the table where they usually had meals were several rice dumplings tied with colorful silk threads.
Li Ce picked one up at random, opened it in a few seconds, and started eating it in big mouthfuls.
Jiang Wanyue was thinking about the outside world.
"I heard that other palaces are very lively. Prince Ding's palace has also held a banquet and invited many people to celebrate the festival. I don't know if the dragon boat race on the river has ended yet... Which team did your highness vote for?"
"How can I have the time for that?"
Li Ce finished eating one zongzi and went to get another one.
Jiang Wanyue tried to stop him.
"Why does Your Highness do these little things himself? Xing'er."
She called Xing'er to come and peel the rice dumplings, and asked Mi'er to get the realgar wine.
After eating and drinking his fill, Li Ce leaned back and sighed.
"The capital city is bustling with activity, but the people in the city don't know that the riverbanks in Cangzhou, Dezhou and other places have been breached by heavy rains, and many homes have been submerged."
Jiang Wanyue was shocked.
"Your Highness, is this what you have been busy with these days?"
Li Ce nodded.
"We have already sent the Imperial Censor and officials from the Ministry of Works to conduct an inspection. If the situation is not good in two days, we will have to send more people to provide disaster relief and comfort the refugees."
Jiang Wanyue walked behind him and gently massaged his temples.
"No matter how urgent the situation is, Your Highness must take care of your own health. No matter how powerful you are, you are only one person! How can you handle so many things in the court? Seeing you lose so much weight, I feel sad."
Li Ce shook her hand.
"The court is relatively stable now, and the six ministries have all come over, so there are no problems. However, there are too many officials in each ministry, and one order has to go through several departments, layer after layer, which takes too much time. Although my father doesn't care about things, he still needs to make decisions on major matters, and it's not easy for me, the crown prince, to give orders directly."
Jiang Wanyue understood.
Does Li Ce want to ascend the throne as soon as possible?
However, there is still almost a year before the emperor's death! Now is not the right time.
Her eyes moved and suddenly an idea came to her mind.
"Your Highness, I heard that a Taoist priest named Zhang Tianshi came to the palace some time ago? This Taoist priest knows astronomy and geography, and is also good at divination. The emperor trusts him very much."
She spoke slowly, and Li Ce looked puzzled.
"Why did you mention him?"
This person was found by the Imperial Concubine. Originally, he was said to be praying for the late Queen and Empress Dowager. Somehow, he won the favor of the Emperor's father and lived in the palace permanently.
"I think that since this Tianshi Zhang was invited by the Imperial Concubine, then the Imperial Concubine should be able to convince him, right?"
"Convince him?"
Li Ce subconsciously repeated the last three words.
Jiang Wanyue blinked at him without further explanation.
Li Ce suddenly understood what she meant.
"You really..."
He shook his head and laughed, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
It was not revealed.
If it succeeds, that would be the best. If it fails, you can also blame it on the women being nosy and it won't have much of an impact.
So, the next day, Jiang Wanyue went to the palace to meet the imperial concubine.
As for the reason, isn't it already there?
The imperial concubine was very surprised to learn that Jiang Wanyue had personally delivered the holiday gift.
The maid replied, "It is said that Jiang Liangdi made it herself. Do you want to keep it, Your Majesty?"
The imperial concubine raised an eyebrow.
"Where is Jiang Liangdi?"
Jiang Wanyue is talking to Princess Ding outside!
The palace maid went in to report and came out after a while.
"The queen likes it very much. Please invite Jiang Liangdi in to talk."
Jiang Wanyue told the rest of the people to stay outside and only took Xiuchun into the hall.
The imperial concubine was dressed elegantly and was quite polite when he saw her.
"It's just a small matter, why bother you to come here in person? Just ask your subordinates to send it off. We are all family, why do you have to be so polite?"
Jiang Wanyue smiled and bowed.
"Your Majesty, what you said is very true. We are all family. As a junior, I naturally have to come and pay my respects to Your Majesty."
The imperial concubine obviously didn't believe her, but she still asked someone to seat her and serve her tea.
"I am still late. I ran into Princess Ding who was about to leave the palace outside. I just found out that the princess entered the palace at noon."
The imperial concubine smiled and did not respond.
"I heard that the Crown Prince has been very busy lately. Can you still manage the affairs of the Eastern Palace? If there is any trouble, just tell me. I will take care of it for you."
Jiang Wanyue felt a little depressed.
It seems that the imperial concubine’s patience is not very good!
But that’s okay.
"Everything is fine in the East Palace. However, I do have an unwelcome request."
When the imperial concubine heard her say this, she understood and leaned back.
"That's what you say."
Jiang Wanyue pinched her handkerchief, looking embarrassed, as if she had mustered up the courage to speak.
"I heard that Master Zhang in the palace is very powerful. I want to invite him to the East Palace to perform a ritual. The eldest princess has been feeling unwell for the past two days, and the doctor can't find the cause... I think it has been almost four months since the Crown Princess passed away..."
She said a few words and stopped talking in time.
"I was just talking nonsense, don't take it to heart, madam."
The imperial concubine's eyes flickered.
She understood what Jiang Wanyue meant.
The eldest princess is not feeling well, and she is worried that it is the ghost of the Crown Princess that is haunting her, so she wants to ask Zhang Tianshi to go there?
This kind of thing is really not easy to talk about openly.