jdhmnovel Chapter 177 The Queen Who Used as a Shield in a Good Pregnancy Novel (27)
Chapter 177 The Queen Who Used as a Shield in a Good Pregnancy Novel (27)
Le Yan, who was playing with Xiao Chang Le, soon heard hurried footsteps.
Looking up, he saw Princess Anning, her hair already gray, dressed in her princess court robes, walking briskly toward him.
Ruan Ruan and several attendants followed closely behind.
Le Yan stared blankly at her aunt, who had brought her maternal love and warmth in the original owner's memories.
The wrinkles around her eyes and the graying hair were completely different from the Princess Anning in my memory.
In just two years, Princess Anning had aged considerably.
Le Yan lowered her eyes, patted Xiao Chang Le's back, gently put her down, and pushed her in the direction Princess Anning had come from, "Chang Le, look quickly, who's here?"
Little Chang Le's eyes lit up, and she scurried towards Princess Anning on her short legs, her little voice beaming with joy: "Grandmother~"
"Yu'er!" Princess Anning quickly hugged the little Chang Le who rushed towards her, and her panicked heart finally calmed down.
Le Yan stood not far away, quietly watching the grandmother and grandson, unable to hide her feelings of emotion.
Having lost all her other family members, Xiao Chang Le is now Princess Anning's lifeline.
I just don't know what happened that made Xiao Chang Le appear alone in the Imperial Garden.
Fortunately, the chances of something bad happening in the palace are slim right now; otherwise, if an accident were to occur, Princess Anning might not be able to survive.
Le Yan sighed softly, raised her eyelids slightly, glanced at Ruan Ruan who had walked back to her side, and listened to her tell about some things that had happened after finding Princess Anning.
"Today, Princess Anning came to the palace because of the rumors circulating in the capital. When she went to see the Emperor, Princess Changle couldn't stay any longer and dragged her servants out of the Qianqing Palace."
"They were playing hide-and-seek not far from the Qianqing Palace when Princess Chang Le happened to hide in a small hole. She crawled in and ended up in the Imperial Garden without even realizing it."
Upon hearing this, Le Yan's eyes flickered. So, it was just an accident?
She pursed her lips and pondered for a moment before asking, "What did the Princess say?"
Ruan Ruan replied in a low voice: "Those palace servants who served Princess Chang Le have been dragged to the Shenxing Division for punishment. Princess Anning is preparing to replace them with a new batch of people to serve the young princess."
Le Yan nodded slightly, showing no surprise at Princess Anning's decision. Instead, she became more interested in what Princess Anning had discussed with Ying Yi in the Qianqing Palace.
She thought to herself that she could take a walk in the Qianqing Palace later.
Just as she was thinking this, Princess Anning and Princess Changle stood in front of Leyan.
Looking at her niece-in-law in front of her, Princess Anning felt very grateful. Then, remembering the reason she had entered the palace and thinking about the rumors that were circulating, she couldn't help but feel a pang of tenderness in her eyes.
She looked at Leyan with gentle affection, raised her hand to affectionately stroke Leyan's hair, and said softly, "You've suffered."
A sigh brought a touch of bittersweetness to Le Yan's heart.
Compared to this aunt, the original owner's real relatives, after hearing those rumors, sent an urgent letter to the palace. Not only did they not show any concern for the original owner, they also demanded that the original owner not cause trouble with the emperor, but also wanted to take this opportunity to carefully see if they could get any benefits for the Sun family.
His words were full of manipulation and psychological warfare against the original owner of the body, saying things like, "Only when the Sun family prospers can you prosper."
Le Yan responded with a big "Pah!" and planned to have Wen Songzhi lead people to strip the Sun family naked and hang them in front of the Sun mansion another day, to see what face they would have left to point fingers and gossip.
Pulling herself back to reality, Le Yan met Princess Anning's gaze, shook her head slightly, and said nothing.
Whether it's bitter or not, she's not involved and has no right to comment.
Although she also felt sorry for the original owner, she didn't say anything to Princess Anning. She would just go back and torture the culprit again to calm her anger down.
Le Yan smiled as she looked at Xiao Chang Le, who was staring at her, and changed the subject, asking Princess An Ning, "Aunt, what brings you to the palace today?"
Princess Anning sighed, keenly sensing that Leyan didn't want to talk about anything else, so she only said a few words: "The imperial family asked me to come to the palace to see the emperor. I thought it had been two years since I last saw you, and I came to see how you were doing."
She looked around and felt that standing there chatting wasn't going to work, so she looked at Leyan and said with a calm smile, "How about it? Would you like to invite your aunt to sit in your Weiyang Palace?"
Le Yan was naturally willing, so she abandoned her plan to go to Qianqing Palace and led Princess Anning and Xiao Chang Le to Weiyang Palace.
After taking her seat in the main hall and dismissing those around her, Princess Anning held little Chang Le and sighed, "Ever since Yun'er and his wife died on the battlefield two years ago, I have been living in seclusion in the princess's residence. I haven't seen you for a while. How have you been?"
Thinking of the rumors that the emperor was childless, and the speculation that the empress was just a shield.
Princess Anning frowned, staring intently at Leyan. "Are you still drinking those strange medicines? I haven't been keeping an eye on you for the past two years, have you stopped taking care of your health?"
Le Yan, who was pouring tea for Princess Anning, paused, thinking of the original owner's prescriptions that filled an entire box, and the fact that she used to drink a bowl of bitter medicine every day. She was speechless.
Princess Anning guessed the answer as soon as she saw her expression.
He immediately looked at Le Yan with a mixture of disappointment and anger, "You fool, do you want to follow in Ling'er's footsteps?!"
Her poor daughter ruined her health by drinking too many random medications.
Now her niece-in-law is doing the same thing. Does she have to suffer the fate of a white-haired person burying a black-haired person?
Princess Anning looked cold and annoyed. She glared at Leyan and said through gritted teeth, "You, the Empress, are still firmly in your position even without children. What are you thinking, ruining your own body like this?"
"For the emperor? He can't take his medicine, he can't sleep with other women? Why make you take all the blame? Aren't you tired of that?!"
Ultimately, Princess Anning also believed the rumors.
Perhaps the emperor was born without an heir, which is why he remained childless for eight years after his marriage.
He himself may have known about this, which is why he was unwilling to hold a selection of concubines. He claimed to favor the Empress alone, but in doing so, he placed all the blame for the Emperor's childlessness on the Empress, allowing her to be despised and cursed by others.
Princess Anning wanted to say something treasonous and disrespectful, but since this was the palace, she couldn't say it outright. So she said, "Yan'er, do you see, is the Emperor really good to you?"
"If someone truly loves you, they won't allow everyone to insult you at will."
Thinking back to the countless memorials submitted by the court officials over the years accusing the empress of being a jealous woman, what did the emperor, who claimed to love the empress dearly, actually do?
Each time, he would simply give a few mild rebukes to the civil and military officials, and that would be the end of it.
If the emperor truly loved the empress, why didn't he take ruthless measures and make an example of her to warn the court officials that disrespecting the empress would result in dismissal or even death?
She refused to believe that with such serious consequences looming ahead, so many people would still dare to step forward fearlessly.
Princess Anning looked at Leyan and said earnestly, "Listen to your aunt, don't be too attached to the emperor, or you'll only end up hurting yourself."