Just because of the matter of the Eleventh Princess leaving home to study, many stubborn civil servants wrote letters to express their opposition, saying that now the Crown Prince has already recognized his ancestral ancestors and since he will inherit the ancestral temple and be the crown prince of the country, his education is of top priority and the most urgent task should be to set up a East Palace team for the Crown Prince and let him study. Why is it so serious for a princess that they even let those people from the Hanlin Academy take turns to teach a princess every month
Emperor Yuanfeng read the memorial and sneered. He put the person who submitted the memorial in front of Zuoshunmen and beat him with dozens of sticks. He also reprimanded him bluntly: "I have just issued the decree to establish the Crown Prince, and the ceremony has not yet been completed. Since the ceremony of enthroning the Crown Prince has not yet been held, what's the point of talking about the Eastern Palace and studying? You submitted this memorial, which is openly to complain for the Crown Prince, but in fact you have ulterior motives and are trying to sow discord among the royal family. You are really hateful and despicable!"
Only after that incident did the rumors in the court get suppressed.
Empress Dowager Tian naturally knew all this. When she heard what Emperor Yuanfeng said, she took a deep breath, still feeling depressed, and shook her head to express her disapproval: "In this case, the emperor should know that Su Yao has a strong personality and is not a suitable candidate. Why do you have to choose a companion for Eleven who does not meet her expectations in every way?"
In fact, Empress Dowager Tian really had no other thoughts at first. Anyway, the positions of companion readers were originally reserved for two people, and Su Yao was just occupying one position. But recently, she really saw that the Eleventh Princess and Su Yao were making too much noise. The Eleventh Princess usually listened to Concubine Pang the most, but now she refused to listen to Concubine Pang even. She was determined to compete with Su Yao. The two of them were like gunpowder bottles that could explode at any time.
Queen Mother Tian had lost a daughter herself, so she was more patient with girls. The Eleventh Princess in particular had been well-behaved and sensible since childhood. She had grown up in the palace and had seen them every day, so they had a genuine friendship. She couldn't bear to see the Eleventh Princess being bullied by a study companion.
She was so angry that she couldn't even eat the Poria paste.
Emperor Yuanfeng still did not get angry. He even smiled and asked calmly, "Mother, you also said that Su Yao has a strong temper and is not the kind of person who flatters others. She is not sweet on the outside but bitter on the inside. She is what she should be. Apart from anything else, do you know why Eleven hates Su Yao so much?"
Empress Dowager Tian had already sensed something from Emperor Yuanfeng's teasing look. She was silent for a moment before asking, "Why?"
"Because Eleven thinks Su Yao is a bad person, a bad person who abandoned his adoptive parents for fame and fortune, and who threw away his adoptive parents at all costs after knowing his life experience." Seeing that Empress Dowager Tian avoided his gaze thoughtfully, Emperor Yuanfeng did not press her, but said softly: "I always feel that no matter how good the plan is for children, it is better to let them experience it themselves. I didn't understand it before, but now I have gradually figured out some ways, so I don't intervene, just let them solve it themselves. I also want Eleven to know that what you hear is false, and what you see is true, and that listening to both sides will make you enlightened, and believing only one side will make you confused."
The first part was better, but in the second part, although Emperor Yuanfeng did not say it explicitly, he was clearly referring to Tian Xun. Before Su Yao entered the palace, Tian Xun had been with the Eleventh Princess for a period of time. So where did the so-called "bad deeds" of Su Yao that the Eleventh Princess learned come from? Is there any need to say more
Empress Dowager Tian felt a little uncomfortable, and it was even harder for her to bring up the idea of asking Tian Xun to return to the palace. After thinking for a while, she had to sigh and compromise: "She is the emperor's own daughter. Since you have made the decision yourself, you must have your reasons. I have nothing to say."
Emperor Yuanfeng smiled and changed the subject.
When they arrived at Concubine Pang's Fengzao Palace from the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace, Concubine Pang was still embroidering. When she heard that he was coming, she hurriedly led the palace maids out to pay respects and greet him. Emperor Yuanfeng smiled and excused her, and held out his hand to help her up and went into the inner hall together. Then he asked her, "I heard that Eleventh went to the Empress Dowager to complain again today, and wanted to bring Tian Xun back?"
Speaking of this, Concubine Pang couldn't help but frown.
No mother wants to see her child being used as a pawn. Tian Xun's ulterior motive is to instigate Princess Eleven, which makes Concubine Pang unhappy. However, she will not show it on her face. She just smiles helplessly and says, "Yes, Princess Eleven has always hated evil..."
As soon as Su Yao entered the palace, the Eleventh Princess gave her a warning and sent someone to pass a message to Su Yao, which resulted in Su Yao freezing for most of the night.
Of course, Su Yao was not someone who could be easily bullied, and the next day he reported without mercy that the Eleventh Princess's homework was not completed by herself, but was written by a palace maid, thus making the Eleventh Princess lose face.
When Concubine Pang mentioned this, she was both angry and amused: "It was really like two stones meeting stones, neither of them was willing to admit defeat. Today they quarreled over a kite. A while ago, Hunan sent several new kites as tribute, and Eleven liked them very much. The Ministry of Internal Affairs gave her the kite with a phoenix spreading its wings. She treasured it like a treasure, but who knew that the kite was hung on a treetop..."
Emperor Yuanfeng raised his eyebrows: "She asked Su Yao to pick it?"
"Yes." Concubine Pang did not hide the truth for the Eleventh Princess, and said softly, "Su Yao actually agreed, but she did not climb the tree by herself, nor did she ask the eunuchs and palace maids to help. She took a bow and arrow and shot down the treetop where the kite was hanging. The treetop broke, and the kite naturally fell down, but the kite was broken. The Eleventh Princess refused to admit that Su Yao had done what she asked, and believed that Su Yao was deliberately dissatisfied and maliciously damaged her kite. I scolded her and ignored her. I guess she felt wronged, so she ran to the Queen Mother to act like a spoiled child."
Concubine Pang's words were impartial. She did not vent her anger on Su Yao because he was indeed too tough, nor did she think that Su Yao should be humble. She just talked about the matter at hand and said, "This matter is Eleven's fault. To be fair, if you don't want to be humiliated, you can only be neither humble nor arrogant like Su Yao, and not follow Eleven."
Emperor Yuanfeng looked at her deeply and said, "So this is what my beloved concubine thinks. That's great. I was just worried that my beloved concubine would not want Eleven to be wronged and would think that Su Yao was overstepping his authority."
How could that be
Concubine Pang would never do such a thing. She laughed and said, "Why is it so? It's just the temper between children. Although Eleven is a princess, she will have to go out sooner or later and learn how to get along with others. There are not only people with lower status than her in the world. She should have learned how to get along with others long ago."