Princess Gong Xiangyan of Kang'an was Xuanzong's real legitimate daughter and the youngest child of Xuanzong.
Her biological mother, Queen Xie, had a life story that could be described as legendary. According to later records and rumors at the time, Queen Xie was Xuanzong's favorite woman from his youth to his old age and his death.
Almost all of the heirs that Xuanzong valued throughout his life were descended from Queen Xie.
Although Princess Zhaoqing, the emperor's eldest daughter, was not Queen Xie's biological child, because of Queen Xie's upbringing and love, she had always been arrogant and arrogant, causing all the vassal kings to retreat.
As the legitimate daughter of the emperor, Princess Kang'an was naturally born to enjoy all the glory and wealth.
It's just that this princess is not as overbearing as her eldest sister Zhaoqing, but is gentle and elegant.
The main reason is that the twins, Princess Kang'an and King Zhen, were said to have been plotted by Gu Zhen when Empress Xie was pregnant, and they were not in good health.
I started taking medicine as soon as I could eat. I had been ill for many years. I wanted to be domineering, but I didn’t have the energy.
Perhaps for this reason, the emperor and empress had always been particularly sympathetic to the two children.
Even the prince would be jealous of Princess Zhaoqing, who was best at competing with her brothers and sisters, but never jealous of Princess Kang'an.
After all, when this sister landed, Princess Zhaoqing was already able to kiss her, and she clearly remembered the weakness of Kang'an and King Zhen.
You can get whatever you want, everyone can follow their own will... Frankly speaking, there is no need for Princess Kang'an to be overbearing. After all, when you can be satisfied by just mentioning something, why should you speak harshly
Princess Kang'an's first trouble happened when she was thirteen years old, because her cousin Xie Meng was having another baby. It was the late spring and early summer. The princess's health had improved a lot, and she was very quiet and restless. I heard that the Deng Mansion planned to set up a flowing banquet for the young master for three days and three nights. I became interested and wanted to join in the fun.
She and King Zhen were twins. They had grown up together since childhood. The brother and sister were inseparable. She wanted to go. After King Zhen heard about it, he also wanted to go.
The empress asked the imperial physician to diagnose the pulse conditions of the two children and thought it was feasible, so she nodded.
So this time the security of Deng's house was extremely tight. Deng Chengzhai personally checked the layout inside and outside. In the end, he was still worried. Outside the main hall where the banquet was held, he decorated a small courtyard alone, set up a banquet, and met his wife in private. Xie Meng explained: "His Royal Highnesses King Zhen and Princess Kang'an have been a little sick since then. It's noisy outside. Don't rush into them. Why don't you let me keep you company in the small courtyard then?"
He also said that there is a rockery in the small courtyard, and there are pavilions on the rockery.
If the two wealthy people want to see the excitement of the banquet, they can overlook it from a high position on the rockery without being contaminated by the smell of alcohol during the banquet.
This arrangement was originally an excellent one, but on the day of the flowing water banquet, Xie Meng's eldest son hit his grandson's head on the head because of his naughtiness, so he had to apologize and leave for a while to deal with the aftermath.
Just for a moment, someone came up and said to the two highnesses: "The two highnesses have been in bed together for many years. Do you know the reason?"
Although Xie Meng was not present, the two imperial heirs were still being served. Seeing this situation, they felt bad and could not help but frown and scolded them to get out!
The man knew that time was urgent and did not dare to talk in circles. He said hurriedly: "This is all because the queen ruthlessly drugged you in order to frame the past and the future, which caused the two of them to be damaged in their mother's womb! If it weren’t for the extraordinary medical skills of the imperial physician in the palace, it would have been impossible for the two highnesses to survive!”
"You bastard!" The leader of the chamberlain who was serving King Zhen changed his face in shock and hurriedly ordered, "Who told this filthy thing to get in front of His Highness? Why don't you drag it down quickly!"
King Zhen and Princess Kang'an both tended to be indifferent due to their physical condition. After hearing these words, they were a little stunned for a moment.
A moment later, Xie Meng, who received the news, panicked and rushed over to plead guilty, and comforted him: "Don't listen to that thing's nonsense. Everyone knows that aunt loves the younger generation the most. Look at King Qin, look at Zhaoqing, look at Wei King, look at King Yan, who is not loved by my aunt like a jewel? How about you two? You are my aunt’s biological flesh and blood, it’s too late for my aunt to love you!”
Deng Chengzhai, who arrived later, also said: "My wife is just the niece of the Empress, and the Empress treats her as her own. If you talk about other things about the Empress, it's fine. If you say that the Empress will be harmful to her own flesh and blood, this is absolutely impossible." thing."
Their family was definitely not in the mood to celebrate the birth of their new child. King Zhen and Princess Kang'an didn't really believe it at this time.
After all, the brother and sister have always been favored by the emperor and empress, and they are not stupid. How could they doubt their biological mother just because of what someone said out of nowhere
Therefore, he comforted Deng Chengzhai and his wife before returning home.
Xie Fenghuang in the palace had received the news a long time ago, and he couldn't help but be shocked and angry: "Who is that wretched maid? How could she rush to the two children?!"
It’s not that she was angry because what happened back then was leaked to the two children, but, “Fortunately, she just wanted to chew on a few words. What if it was a vicious attack?! Deng Chengzhai has always been a subtle person, and this is why the two children want to go to his house. , because I didn’t refuse, but what did he do this time?!”
The left and right people also looked at each other, and finally Chen Jing went up to report: "If I go back to my wife, it seems that the cheap maid is the son of the Gu family. When the Gu family was overthrown, the children of the family were probably also disposed of, but some young servants in the village were investigated at that time. I didn’t have a close relationship with the master’s family when I came down, so I gave it away.”
Who knew that there was someone hidden here who was obsessed with his old master, sneaked into Deng's house, and rushed to the emperor's heir to talk nonsense
"So, the centipede insect is dead but not stiff." Queen Xie sighed and said, "Deal with the person first, no, let's follow the clues first to see if it is her intention alone, or is there something else behind it?"
The attendants agreed cautiously, and finally asked for instructions: "Well, Madam, where are your two highnesses?"
"There is no basis for it. Why should you pay attention to these words?" Empress Xie said calmly, "Just wait until they come back and coax them."
She can even coax Chunjia, let alone two thirteen-year-old children
Sure enough, after a while, King Zhen and Princess Kang'an came back. Neither brother nor sister mentioned the matter. They only talked about what they had seen at the Deng Mansion banquet, and also talked about the appearance of the new young master in the Deng family: "It's weird. Not as good-looking as their eldest son."
"The children were like that when they were young. It will get better when they grow up." Queen Xie coaxed them with a smile, "When you two were born, you were also wrinkled."
Princess Kang'an pouted and said: "No, my mother is lying. At most, my brother is not good-looking, but I must be a beauty! My wet nurse said that I was just born that year, and I am a real beauty embryo!"
The queen and the waiters all laughed and agreed: "Yes, yes, Princess Kang'an has always been a beauty, but she is so beautiful!"
"What about me?" King Zhen said unwillingly, "We are twins. If my sister is beautiful, I must be beautiful too!"
Princess Kang'an said decisively: "No, my brother is definitely not as good-looking as me, I am the best-looking!"
They were tired of the queen's coquettishness for a while, and then they left separately.
So it seemed to the palace that the matter was over, but not long after, when King Zhen went to see his sister, he said to her privately: "I have been playing incognito with my brothers outside these days, and I have heard a lot of things. It’s different from what we heard in the palace.”
Princess Kang'an asked curiously: "What's a different way?"
King Zhen hesitated to speak, and finally said: "Some people say that the Queen Mother is not as good as we think. That is what happened at the banquet at Cousin Meng's house before... not one person told me in private."
"Why are they telling us this?" Princess Kang'an asked puzzledly, "We are so young, and I am still a girl. As for you, brother, although you are the prince, is it possible that the position of fifteenth brother still belongs to you? Even if we know about this matter, what will happen? We can’t make a fuss and settle accounts with the Queen Mother? "
"Of course not." King Zhen said quickly, "I just think... the father, emperor and mother are different from what I thought before, and so is Fifteenth Brother!"
Princess Kang'an held her chin and said boredly: "Ah, it's just different. Are we not living well now? Since we are doing well, why do we have to think so much?"
King Zhen was choked by what she said. After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't refute. He could only hold back one sentence: "Weren't you still curious just now?"
"Curiosity is curiosity." The princess said confidently, "But there is no need to serve as a gunman for those people! Besides, who knows whether what they say is true or false?"
King Zhen said: "If one or two people said that, it would be fine. They have said it several times. Let's talk about some of the things they said. After thinking about the details, I don't think they were made up at will."
"Brother, have you ever thought about a question?" Princess Kang'an tilted her head and looked at him, "The queen mother is the third queen of the father, and the queen mother's family background is also not good. When she entered the palace, she was just a Baolin... If the queen mother didn't point out With all her tricks, is it possible that the position of queen was given to her by her father’s other concubines who were virtuous, kind, gentle, courteous and frugal?”
"It's for this reason that I feel that maybe the queen mother they said is true."
Princess Kang'an nodded: "It's true if it's true. If it's false, I'm really afraid that my mother won't be able to protect us from living a leisurely life like this! Think about it, I'm a girl. Unless your father is disgusted, you can always stay in the Imperial Capital. You are different. If you are enfeoffed, the quality of the fiefdom will directly determine the future of you and your descendants. Your mother is so powerful that you will not be wronged!"
At this time, King Zhen still felt disapproving: "I am the legitimate son of my mother, and how many children are there after my mother? Can you not feel sorry for me? I don't even need my mother to say such things, so my father cannot treat me badly."
However, after some time, he had to choose a concubine and a fiefdom, but he suffered a heavy blow: his brother, the current crown prince, Gong Xianggui, first recommended him a man who seemed to have a good background, but whose family fortune was empty and who had little political future. Other girls.
Then he was assigned a vassal state that was not particularly poor but was constrained.
The key is that Emperor Chunjia did not have any objection to this. He even smiled and said when King Zhen tried to act coquettishly: "How can the prince and your compatriots still wrong you? He is actually very considerate... What? Don’t you like it? That place is not bad. If you don’t believe it, just go back and stay there for two years.”
While King Zhen was stunned, she was a little doubtful for a moment: Are she and the prince really the same mother? ?
He had been favored since childhood, and his brothers and sisters had given in. Now he felt that he had been cheated, and he was not polite. The emperor had a gentle attitude, but he obviously supported the prince. In anger, he simply went to the East Palace to find Gong Xianggui to argue.
However, Gong Xiangjue was in the same style as the emperor, and his attitude was very gentle. No matter how unpleasant his words were, he was always gentle and gentle, which made him seem more and more unreasonable.
However, I will not change it!
The implication behind the words was that this was the arrangement for him.
King Zhen: “????”
Always feel like you are a fake and favored heir
In the end, Princess Kang'an learned the news and sent him a message privately, asking him to go to the queen: "Only the queen can make the decision for you in this matter."
"Why?" King Zhen was furious. Instead of going to see Queen Xie immediately, he went to see his sister and said angrily, "Isn't our father our biological father? Isn't the prince our brother from the same mother? Why? Do this to me!"
"Why?" Princess Kang'an was lying on the small table playing with the parrot. She raised her head in confusion after hearing this, "Of course it's because you are the only legitimate son of the queen and father! I heard that when the former queen was deposed, the queen Gu was still there. There have been several legitimate children, but they were all born to palace concubines and those adopted to her cannot be considered true legitimate children. They can only be said to be legitimate children."
"We are the only two who were born after our mother sealed the title of queen. We are the true direct heirs."
"It's fine that I'm a princess, but my brother is a prince!"
"Even if the fifteenth brother is from the same mother as us, don't forget that just like the mother is the third empress of the father's emperor, the fifteenth brother is also the third prince of the country!"
"Brother, why do you think that Fifteenth Brother entered the East Palace because of his filial piety and brotherhood?"
"Brother Fifteen, can we not guard against you?"
King Zhen's face turned red: "I never thought about competing with Brother Fifteen!"
"But other people may not think so." Princess Kang'an reminded him, "For those who have been gossiping in front of my brother in the past two years, are they really just to sow discord between us and our mother? The mother's backhand can suppress us. I understand this truth, but they really don’t understand? Besides, with my mother’s background and her current achievements, if she had actually done something like using our health to exchange for a lower position, how could she have done it? Do you care that we are divorced from her?"
"The reason why those people are provoking in front of my brother is that the ultimate goal is not to make us hate our mother, but to gradually incite my brother to fight with my fifteenth brother!"
"After all, the Queen is here. If we don't break up with the Queen, even if my brother has some thoughts, I'm afraid he will give up the idea after some persuasion from the Queen."
The princess said calmly, "So, what my father said is actually right. As an elder brother, if you marry a girl with no real support and a good reputation as your main concubine, you can go to a middle-class girl who will not have a hard life but will live a good life." It is also certain that a vassal state that has no capital to rebel is the best."
King Zhen was silent for a long time.
After a while, he said angrily: "Then you still want me to find the queen mother? You said this is the best!"
"This is the best for the overall situation." Princess Kang'an gave him a strange look, "But why should we take the overall situation into consideration?"
What she said was so righteous that King Zhen was in a trance for a moment before he realized. Yes, although I was wronged by doing this, in the long run, it is true that the emperor and the prince will save worry, and the country will also save worry... But with this What wronged me!
My father and brothers are unreliable, but I have a mother and a queen!
He immediately went to Xie Fenghuang and cried: "Mother, are you really your biological flesh and blood? Then why are you the one who raised me, and your concubine and fiefdom are much worse than those of your brothers? Is it ten? Doesn't Fifth Brother like Er Chen? Then simply send Er Chen far away and never return to the Imperial Capital in this life! Er Chen doesn't care about these riches, he just can't bear to part with his mother... "
Xie Fenghuang had long heard the story from her subordinates, and knew that this son was purely pointed out by her sister, but after all, she was of the same flesh and blood, and what happened back then, she felt no guilt for the two children.
Although she was well aware of King Zhen's plan at this moment, she still tried to coax her a bit like a loving mother, then turned around and scolded the prince: "You bastard! King Zhen is so much younger than you, why do you have to guard against him like this? You have no ability at all, what qualifications do you have to live in this East Palace! Just get out and ask your father to choose talents again!"
As soon as the prince heard this, he knew that his mother wanted to support his younger brother, so he quickly explained: "My queen, my son, and my ministers are all doing this evil for the sake of the relationship between you and your younger brothers and sisters!"
He then talked about someone sowing discord in front of King Zhen, "I was afraid that the brothers and sisters would really have a grudge against the mother because of this, but such a thing did not break out. If I deliberately explained it, it would arouse suspicion! Erchen We can only discuss it with my father in private, and use this matter to let my younger brothers and sisters understand that my mother is the one who loves them the most!"
Xie Fenghuang laughed angrily: "So, I still have to thank you?"
"My mother's words are serious!" When the prince heard this, he knew that she was not really angry. He came up to his mother with a sullen face and patted her legs and shoulders, and said attentively, "I am your first child, how can I not be more filial to you? Help me." This is what we should do to educate our younger brothers and sisters. How can we bear the words of gratitude from our mother?"
Xie Fenghuang laughed and said, "Do you think I am so easy to fool?"
But in the end, he didn't pursue his true purpose anymore. He turned around and said to his left and right, "Look at it like this, even if King Zhen marries a noble girl and gets a royal title, she will probably not be the prince's opponent."
King Zhen is still too young, not like the prince, and he is not slippery in front of his own mother.
Everyone on the left and right laughed: "Your Majesty, isn't this great? Your Highness the Crown Prince is very smart and looks just like your Majesty back then... His Royal Highness King Zhen is honest and well-behaved. In this way, brotherly harmony can last long."
"Prince?" Xie Fenghuang smiled and said, "Although he is smart, perhaps because of his young age, his bearing is still lacking. This time, what he did against King Zhen was not decent enough."
After the queen said this, she pondered slightly, "It's Kang An, which is very surprising to me."
The attendant flattered him and said, "His Royal Highness Kang'an is beautiful and beautiful, and it has been passed down to the empress."
"She actually doesn't look like me." When it came to this little daughter, Xie Fenghuang hesitated for a while, sighed, and said, "She looks more like His Majesty."
Looking at An Jingjing, no one knew how many thoughts were running through their minds... When Xie Fenghuang entered the palace, the emperor was already twenty-three.
She had never seen Emperor Chunjia when he was a boy.
But looking at Princess Kang'an now, it seemed that after decades of time, I could catch a glimpse of her husband's demeanor when he was a teenager.
Gong Xiangji, who has had a good reputation in the fiefdom since his childhood, should have been this calm and thoughtful before he grew up
The next day Princess Kang'an received a large number of boxes and cages. When she opened them, she saw that they were all excellent things.
She couldn't help being surprised, so she went to ask Xie Fenghuang: "Why did the Queen Mother suddenly reward me with so many valuable things? I heard that none of my other brothers and sisters have them?"
"No, because these are not rewards from this palace." The queen looked at her gently and said, "These are the relics left by your great-grandmother. I originally planned to give them all to your seventh brother, because there are too many and they are too valuable. , Your seventh brother didn’t dare to ask for it, so he only brought a few things as souvenirs... "
"The rest has been kept in the warehouse. I originally planned to keep it sealed and discuss it later."
"But suddenly I felt that if it were left to you, your great-grandmother would agree."
Princess Kang'an had met the late Empress Dowager Ji, but she was too young at that time and didn't meet many times, so she had no impression of her. Now that she was recalling it, she really couldn't remember her. Like your own evidence, you can’t help but ask, “Why?”
Xie Fenghuang smiled and stroked the top of her hair: "Because you look like your father."
There was clear nostalgia in the Queen's eyes, "If your great-grandmother were still alive today, she would definitely take the initiative to pass these things on to you."
The Phoenix Master who really presided over the rise and fall of the Gongxiang family for three dynasties had met Shenzong underground many years ago.
But I don’t know what will happen to them
Simply, I and Gong Xiangji will finally have a happy ending.
While the Queen was distracted, Princess Kang'an had already taken out a flower crown from behind, put it on her head, and smiled sideways at her: "This is what the Queen Mother said, I'm not welcome! I like this flower crown the most... Does it look good?"
Although I am still confused, but whatever, this is not a disadvantage anyway.
Princess Kang'an has enjoyed all kinds of preferences since she was a child. She has long been accustomed to being treated differently, so she doesn't bother to ask for the truth. She said enthusiastically, "There are dozens of similar ones. I have to change my daughter every day. Every day is different!"
Xie Fenghuang laughed: "My son is the most beautiful!"
She admired the daughter in front of her, and was very satisfied with the clarity and lightness in Kang An's eyebrows, without any haze.
Unlike Chunjia, who had been burdened with heavy expectations since he was a child, and who later kept a low profile and bided his time, the emperor and queen's respective efforts and hard work over the years, at this moment, everything seems so worth it.
This is the youngest child of Queen Xie and Emperor Chunjia, and the only legitimate daughter.
She has the temperament and persona of the Emperor when he was a boy, and she also has the high-spiritedness of Empress Xie at that time.
Queen Xie couldn't help but think of the name the emperor had given his daughter, Gong Xiangyan.
秵 means rice flower.
Princess Kang'an looked the best when her parents were in their prime.
(End of extra chapter.)