In the second year after Xu Ning adopted Su Wang, Prince Jing passed away, and Emperor Wen Xiao appointed the sixth prince as the crown prince. In the third year, Emperor Wen Xiao fell ill again, and this time his condition was much more serious than that of four years ago. Emperor Wen Xiao lay in bed for half a month, and the prince had been handling political affairs on his behalf.
Officials in Beijing and China have speculated that the day when the crown prince succeeds to the throne is just around the corner.
In the past three years, time has not brought any big changes to He Yan and Prince Su, but Xu Ning's little bun has changed a lot, from a two-year-old bun to a five-year-old big bun, and his tender facial features have also grown Opened, and some shadows of respecting relatives and concubines were added between the eyebrows and eyes.
On this day, after having lunch with He Yan and Xu Ning, Prince Su coaxed He Yan to take a nap, then quietly got up and left for the palace.
The sixth prince is not the most talented among all the princes, but he has a steady personality and a good heart. After a long period of examinations, Emperor Wen Xiao still chose him as the prince.
The character of the sixth prince doomed him to lack political will and control over the court.
In order to pave the way for the prince, although Emperor Wen Xiao didn't go to court very much recently, he was still very busy every day. Prince Su, as his most trusted right-hand man, naturally had to deal with some affairs for Emperor Wen Xiao, so he went to the palace during this time Very diligent to go.
He Yan also knew this, so it was not surprising that he did not see Prince Su after waking up.
He asked the boy to come in with water to wash his face, then he left the bedroom and went to the next door to play with Xuning.
Although Xu Ning was only five years old, she was much more diligent than him. She woke up early and was writing on the special low-legged table.
Xu Ning only found Mr. Kaimeng this year, and his handwriting was crooked. When he saw him coming in, he carefully put the pen on the shelf beside him, and ran over to hold him in his arms.
Although this child was timid and reserved when he first came here, after getting to know him well, he is quite obedient and loves to laugh. When he smiles, there are dimples on his cheeks, which is very painful.
Today's sun is rare, so He Yan took him outside to eat snacks and bask in the sun, and check the books in Dongri Zhuangzi by the way.
The cold winter has just passed, and the spring is cold, and there is always a lingering chill in the air. He Yan's fear of the cold probably can't be changed. He felt cold when he got out of bed, but now he is bathing in the sun with a stove in his hand, and he finally feels alive.
If Prince Su was here, he could hold him in his arms and cover his hands and feet with his hot body until he was sweating. But now that the man has gone to the palace, it is unknown when he will be back.
Xu Ning's body was also weak, holding a small hand stove one size smaller than He Yan's, sitting side by side with him on the reclining chairs to bask in the sun, slowly nibbling on snacks, raising his hands from time to time and handing them to the side, timidly, with an extremely Dad, who read the account book at a slow speed, handed over a dollar or two.
When Prince Su found the backyard, what he saw was his family's two balls wrapped in a ball, lying limp in the sun to keep warm.
He first walked over and touched Xu Ning's head, then moved the account book in front of He Yan, leaned over and kissed the corner of his mouth.
He Yan pushed his face aside and warned: "Don't make trouble."
The child is still watching.
Prince Su pulled him up from the reclining chair, "Someone is here from Xinyuanhou's residence."
He Yan's eyes lit up in an instant, and he stretched out his hand to ask Prince Su to straighten his clothes, and urged, "Take Aning and go see him."
Prince Su had no choice but to hug Xu Ning, who was still stuffed with snacks, and took He Yan to the living room.
He Yan, who came from Xinyuanhou's residence, also recognized him as the big maid beside Xie's mother, and laughed when he saw He Yan.
He Yan felt more relieved.
Because he was doomed to have no heirs in this life, he felt a little guilty about Xinyuanhou and Xie Mu, and he kept thinking about how to make up for Xinyuanhou's mansion.
After thinking about it for a while, he finally came up with two solutions.
The first one is to adopt a child from a side branch of the Xie family. Adoption itself is not difficult, and even without He Yan sending someone to persuade, there are a lot of side branches of the Xie family who want to send their children to the Xinyuanhou's mansion as a son. It's just that the best candidate for adoption is a young son under the age of three, so as to facilitate the relationship between the child and the Xinyuanhou couple. The age of the children in Xie's family is not very suitable.
The second is to find a way to get Xie's mother to conceive another one. However, Mrs. Xie is still thirty-five or sixteen after all, and this age is not considered young. There is no doubt that giving birth under such medical conditions in ancient times is risky.
So He Yan mainly considered the first method at the beginning. At worst, after a few years, there will always be a suitable child born in the branch of Xie's family. Although offspring are important, in He Yan's view, it is not worth risking Xie's mother's body for this reason. Not worth it.
It's just that that day at home and his parents lied that he would not lift, when the royal doctor Zhou in the palace came to check his pulse, he suddenly remembered a detail.
After the fourth prince ascended the throne, according to the rules, his concubine when he was the prince automatically became the queen.
It's just that this queen exists in name only, because the fourth concubine of the previous life chose to separate herself from the fourth prince in order to protect herself and her children. The fourth prince had a grudge against her and never got close to her after her rebirth. I don't like it very much either.
The fourth prince does not go to the harem very often, but there are also little princes and princesses born in the harem one after another, but the emperor is not even willing to enter the queen's bedroom. For the fourth prince and concubine, this is undoubtedly a kind of An insult that he didn't even bother to cover up.
After all, the fourth prince concubine is the daughter of a big family, and she has a bit of temperament in her personality. After being a queen who has been ridiculed for seven years, she finally realized that the fourth prince has hatred for her. After despair, she decided to take revenge on the fourth prince.
The first step she did was to drug the Fourth Prince.
After the incident, although the fourth prince was angry, but the heroes of the fourth prince's concubine's family, not only his father died on the battlefield, but the eldest brother was also a general at the border. The fourth prince's succession to the throne is inseparable from the support of the fourth prince's concubine's mother family. So in order to stabilize the mother clan of the fourth princess, of course he can't do anything to the fourth princess, he can only swallow this breath.
What made him even more horrified was that, although it was only once, the fourth concubine was found out to be pregnant not long after.
Later, the fourth prince and the fourth concubine tortured each other for many years, and finally, as the elder brother of the fourth concubine was dismissed from his official position, the fourth concubine was also sent to the cold palace for a reason.
Of course, this is not the focus of He Yan's attention. His focus is on the person behind the fourth prince and concubine.
That pregnancy certainly wasn't a coincidence. In fact, in order to conceive this child, the fourth concubine used her family relationship to hire a medical master who has been incognito for many years to take care of her body, and later when the fourth concubine gave birth to a difficult child, it was this master who saved her One life.
In fact, He Yan didn't pay much attention to the part of the fourth prince's ascension to the throne in the materials, and his impression was very weak. It was only when he met Zhou Yuyi that day that he suddenly remembered that there was such a person.
At that time, the fourth concubine was in her early thirties when she gave birth, and her mental and physical condition was very bad due to her long-term mental illness. Under such circumstances, the medical expert could guarantee her a smooth delivery. It's probably not a problem anymore.
There is a difference between the biological child and the adopted child, so after He Yan remembered the existence of this medical master, he began to find a way to find him.
According to the clues in the data, he asked the spies of Prince Su's mansion to search for it for a full year, and finally found the medical expert in a remote town. At last, he invited him out of the mountain to the Xinyuanhou's mansion. Thank you mother for taking care of your body.
According to the medical master, although Xie's mother is not young, she is in good health in all aspects. After a good recuperation and preparation, there is no danger of having another child.
The medical master nursed Xie's mother for more than a year, and the Xinyuanhou Mansion finally sent good news more than nine months ago. Calculating the time, the day of giving birth is just a few days.
"It was activated this morning, it's a young master." The maid couldn't hide the smile on her face.
He Yan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, but then asked nervously: "How is the mother?"
After all, it is old, Xie's mother's pregnancy is not very stable.
The servant girl confessed: "Don't worry, young master, the doctor you invited is very skilled in medicine, and everything is fine, Madam, but she is a little weak."
He Yan inquired about some details again, and then sent him back to Xinyuanhou's mansion. Before leaving, he asked people to bring many valuable medicinal materials from the mansion.
Although he knew that the Marquis of Xinyuan's mansion did not lack these things, it was still his wish after all.
After the maid left, He Yan sat on the chair with a smile on his face.
Seeing the ease in his brow and eyes, Prince Su felt much better.
Although their family's Ah Ming has never told him, it can still be seen that he has always felt a little guilty about the Xinyuanhou Mansion.
Now Marquis Xinyuan has another son-in-law, which is really a great thing, and their family's Ah Ming can let go of the guilt in his heart from now on.
But today is destined to be an uneasy day, just when both of them were in a good mood because of the good news from Xinyuanhou's Mansion, someone rushed in again.
The person who came this time was also a familiar person, an eunuch next to the emperor. When Emperor Wen Xiao passed the password to Prince Su's mansion, he was the one who came nine out of ten times.
But this time... Seeing the eunuch's panicked face, Prince Su's heart sank.
The eunuch bowed to him, and passed on Emperor Wen Xiao's password in a trembling tone.
It turned out that when Emperor Wen Xiao was discussing matters with his ministers, he suddenly fell ill, coughed up blood, and passed out not long after.
The last command he passed before he fainted was to announce that Prince Xuansu would enter the palace immediately.