allendalepharm Chapter 347 Informing
Chapter 347 Informing
After Yinxing left the palace, Jintao became her personal attendant.
Jin Tao has a few ulterior motives, but not many. She used to envy and be jealous of Yin Xing, but now that she has gotten what she wanted, she may not be happy.
The reason is simple: there's too much work, but the pay hasn't increased.
Still getting that meager fixed salary, and with tons of trivial things to do.
Du Xiurong was formerly Consort De. When there weren't many children in the palace, the eldest princess and the eldest prince still held considerable importance, and the emperor would favor the mother and her two children when bestowing rewards.
Although there is now a fourth prince and an eldest princess, the eldest princess is not well-liked, and the fourth prince is a glutton. With Du Xiurong in her current state, and with all these things reduced, where will there be any servants left?
Jin Tao couldn't answer; her mind wasn't on that. "What did Your Highness say?"
Du Xiurong glanced at the golden peach; compared to the ginkgo, the golden peach was far inferior.
But Du Xiurong didn't think she was wrong. What was wrong with the trip to Jiangling? Yinxing liked it too, but she was still so pretentious and even betrayed him.
Unfortunately, her family couldn't catch her either. As soon as she left the palace, she disappeared without a trace, and no one knew where she went.
On the day of the Crown Prince's full moon celebration, her mother came to the palace to speak with her, asking her to be patient for the time being. She wanted to be patient, but she couldn't. She hated Shen Shixi more than she hated Pei Linghua.
If it weren't for Shen Shixi, Pei Linghua would never have known that it was Shen Shixi who was behind it all.
Pei Linghua was foolish his whole life, but he was smart for once in the end.
Shen Shixi protected her, so she turned on herself. It was both revenge and something the emperor couldn't say.
But when she attacked Pei Linghua, didn't the Emperor and Shen Shixi know anything about it?
Of course I know.
They even hoped she would take action, because with the Seventh Prince, the Pei family would act with impunity. Unfortunately, at that time, she was unaware of this and was used as a pawn for nothing.
How heartless the Emperor is!
"Go and tell the eldest princess to stop crying; crying won't help."
The eldest princess came in, sobbing. Du Xiurong wiped away her tears and said, "You need to learn to please your father, the emperor. The empress will not tolerate you. You should go to Cining Palace more often. The empress dowager is your grandmother and will not abandon you."
"Grandmother doesn't care about me. She only likes Yang Tingyu. That guy from the Duke of Ying's mansion always goes to Grandmother's place. Last time I met him, he even gave me a silly grin."
Du Xiurong coughed violently in anger, "Remember this, his sister killed your eldest brother. If it weren't for Yang Tingyue, your eldest brother wouldn't have died."
The eldest princess's hatred reached its peak in an instant.
Gritting my teeth!
Du Xiurong coughed and wheezed after saying just a few words, which distressed the eldest princess greatly. "Mother, please take good care of yourself. With me here, I will take good care of my younger brother and look after you."
Du Xiurong was heartbroken and too weak to do anything else, so she lay down and closed her eyes.
The eldest princess was in charge of the fourth prince's studies. Before starting school, the princes would usually learn to hold a pen, write a few words, and recognize some simple characters.
Du Xiurong also found someone to tutor the fourth prince, after all, she intended for the fourth prince to compete for the position of crown prince. As a result, half a day passed, and the fourth prince just sat at the table and ate all the pastries without writing a single word.
The fourth prince retorted as soon as the eldest princess spoke, which was extremely impolite.
The eldest princess, unable to bear it any longer, slapped him. The fourth prince dodged, then charged towards the eldest princess with his cannon-like body, knocking his seven-year-older sister to the ground with a headbutt.
The siblings got into a fight, the fourth prince's head was swollen from being hit, the eldest princess's neck was scratched, and Du Xiurong fainted from anger. The two were then sent to Qianyuan Palace.
Li Yuanke was playing with his two little darlings when he heard about it, so he let them in.
Seeing the siblings' rather serious injuries, Shen Shixi was greatly surprised and asked, "What happened?"
The headmistress knelt and replied, "Your Majesty, it was our dereliction of duty. The eldest princess was reprimanding the fourth prince, telling him to study hard, but he wouldn't listen, and a fight broke out."
The fourth prince shouted, "Mother, my eldest sister is a bad person. She spoke ill of you to Mother."
Li Yuanke gave her a cold look, and the eldest princess was so frightened that she knelt down with a thud. "Your subject did not, your subject never said that, Father, your subject is innocent."
Li Yuanke was furious and wanted to throw those two idiots away. Just as he was about to explode, Shen Shixi held him down and beckoned to the Fourth Prince, "Come here!"
The fourth prince was also startled, but the boy was a bit thick-skinned. He shuffled over step by step, asking, "Mother, are you going to reward me?"
Shen Shixi grabbed his shoulders and pressed him down, "Kneel down!"
The fourth prince knelt down.
Shen Shixi said, "You will kneel here today and think carefully about what you did wrong. I will let you get up when you understand it."
The fourth prince was stunned. "Mother, I did nothing wrong. I am clearly a good child."
Shen Shixi naturally didn't expect such a young child to figure things out on his own, so she prompted him, "Are your mother and your eldest sister good to you? Do they love you?"
He first shook his head, then nodded.
Shen Shixi said, "Tell me, they said bad things about me, shouldn't I punish them?"
The fourth prince nodded again.
"You thought I'd reward you, so you told on me, didn't you?"
He lowered his head and nodded.
Shen Shixi said, "What good food from my palace do you want to eat that would make you betray your best sister and mother for a bite to eat? You really are your father's good son!"
Your father was wise and brilliant, yet he gave birth to such a worthless fourth prince! You have completely disgraced your father!
At this moment, Li Yuanke felt utterly disgusted with the siblings, genuinely feeling that raising such children was an insult to him.
Shen Shixi stood up. "Think it over carefully, and get up when you've figured it out."
Shen Shixi then said to the eldest princess, "You should go back now. You will be confined to your quarters for a month and copy the Analects of Confucius ten times. Your nanny will supervise you, and no one is allowed to help you. Once you're done, bring it to me so I can take a look."
"This servant obeys the decree!"
"Your subject obeys the decree!"
Seeing this, the eldest princess had no choice but to obey and withdraw.
When Du Xiurong woke up, she heard that her children had been taken to Qianyuan Palace by the teaching nanny. She was both scared and angry. She asked Jin Tao to do her hair and makeup and she wanted to go to Qianyuan Palace herself. However, before she even left the palace gate, the eldest princess returned.
"Where's your brother?"
The eldest princess now hates her fourth brother to death. She hugged her mother and cried loudly, telling her story while crying. However, she couldn't explain it clearly because she was too angry and her words were incoherent.
Du Xiurong asked the instructing matron to speak, and after listening, she was speechless for a long time.
How could she raise such a son?
How could Shen Shixi not take the opportunity to complain about her to the Emperor?
The eldest princess hugged her mother and cried, "Mother, I don't want to be punished by copying the text! Waaah, I've never studied the Analects of Confucius, I don't even know what the Analects is!"
Du Xiurong had not studied the Analects; she had only read the Analects for Women, the Admonitions for Women, the Thousand Character Classic, and the Book of Poetry. However, she still knew that the Analects was a Confucian classic.
Consort Du asked, "Does the Empress want you to copy the *Women's Analects* or the *Analects*?"
The eldest princess said, "I'm talking about the Analects, not the Analects for Women."
Du Xiurong said, "Your Majesty the Empress has not read many books, and probably does not know the difference between the Analects and the Women's Analects. You should copy the Women's Analects instead."