Chapter 161
The Empress Dowager Hua An's face was gloomy, and she didn't speak for a moment.

"The two of you, the Empress Dowager Rong An, don't see me in your eyes, and don't respect me in your heart, do you?"

I really don't like her style in my heart, but she is my mother-in-law after all.

So I'm still very polite.

I don't know why she suddenly got angry.

Logically speaking, at her age, she should be used to seeing all kinds of things, and don't care about anything.

Even my father is very broad-minded.

Why is she so narrow-minded and unable to see through at her age?

I also stood up and said, "Mother-in-law, we will also mention you in front of Empress Dowager Rong An."

Needless to say, Empress Dowager Rong An would make them honor Empress Hua An, that's what it looks like to be an elder.

The Empress Dowager Hua An didn't appreciate what he said, she just snorted coldly: "I really forgot my mother-in-law when I have a daughter-in-law."

I disagree with this sentence, I was raised by my father!

When I couldn't stay here any longer, Aunt Shaozhuang from the Palace of Imperial Harmony came over.

"Greetings to the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty will see the ministers later, so let the servants come over and ask, have your Highness and the princess concubine greeted you? If you have, go to the Palace of Imperial Harmony earlier."

The Empress Dowager Hua'an's flame extinguished a bit, "You guys go, I'm tired too."

I pulled Axi away with a sigh of relief.

Father understands the Empress Dowager Hua'an, and he also understands me.

Today, the Empress Dowager Hua An will definitely play the role of the elders, but I am most tired of the yin and yang.

After leaving the main hall, I looked at Axi, "Let's ask the order to leave the palace."

With surprise on Axi's face, "Is it possible?"

I said seriously: "You can try it, it's better to go out than to be in the palace."

Axi nodded in agreement.

We came to the Palace of Imperial Harmony.

As soon as he entered the palace, Dad asked with a smile: "The Empress Dowager Hua An didn't make things difficult for you, did she?"

Upon hearing this, I pulled Axi to kneel down.

"Father, Ah Xi and I want to move out of the palace." I said seriously.

Dad sighed after hearing this: "It seems that he was really embarrassed, I sent the rescuers late."

But I said: "Daddy has a lot of things to do every day, how can he take care of me and Axi in everything, we should respect the elders, but the mother-in-law is a little unreasonable."

Dad sighed.

"Forget it, I allow you to move out, and you don't have to come to pay your respects every day in the future, once a month is enough, and the more you see, the more things you will do."

Hearing Dad blurt out easily, I looked at Ah Xi with a smile.

And Ah Xi also had a smile on her face.

In the evening, Dad sent someone to inform me that he gave me a courtyard that the late emperor had taken back.

Just in disrepair.

I discussed it with Axi and said that I didn't care, and moved in the next day.

After people clean up the main house, the other rooms and yards can be cleaned up slowly.

It was already evening after all the busy work, and Axi and I sat at the door, looking at the courtyard in front of us.

It is incomparable with the environment in the palace, but it is our home.

Her head rests on my shoulder.

She pointed at the door, "I'll grow the mandarin duck vines in the spring of next year. The gold and silver are beautiful and smell good."

And I added: "The rest of the place can be planted with bamboo, it has no taste, and it will pay off."

Axi nodded.

The two of us pointed here and there for a while, and arranged the yard clearly.

In the days that followed, I only cared about my own little family, and I didn't care about anything outside.

Apart from going to court and dealing with the things I should do, I don't go to any gatherings, even Zhishi can't find me!

But Zhishi doesn't look for me very much, she has Xiao Bai.

In the spring of the next year, Axi really planted mandarin duck vines at the gate of the courtyard as we said before.

She likes flowers and plants very much. Under her care, our home is full of flowers.

There are many words that I don't know and can't name, but they are all beautiful.

Some were even used by Axi to make pastries.

As for the monthly greetings, the Empress Dowager Rong An still treated them as normal, and it was useless for the Empress Dowager Hua An to exempt us from seeing her.

We are very obedient, in order not to disturb her old man's rest, we really didn't go.

Empress Dowager Rong An felt that she was also an old man after hearing about it, so she also exempted us.

So our life is more comfortable.

Axi will not enter the palace if there is no big festival. She just does something she likes at home and waits for me to go home.

Until one year, in late autumn, news suddenly came from the southern border.

It has been so many years since there was another war in the southern border, and I didn't expect the war to come again.

Following the example of the late emperor, the courtiers all suggested to my father to make me the crown prince, so that I could fight for my father to stabilize the morale of the army.

Father only has me as a son, I don't know what they think.

Father also told them this.

In the end, they suggested that father should follow the example of the first emperor in accepting concubines and having more children.

"I will never agree to this matter." Dad said coldly.

The courtiers repeated their advice again and again.

And Dad's attitude is also very firm.

"If you want the crown prince to risk his life to go to the south, how about I go?" Dad asked coldly.

All the ministers knelt on the ground one after another.

And Dad continued: "I know the dangers in the southern border, if I die unfortunately, the eldest son of the emperor Zhidang will succeed immediately!"

"I don't mean that." A courtier said.

Dad asked again: "You don't want me to be involved, but you let my son go, did he offend you in any way?"

The courtiers flatly denied it.

Dad still said in a cold tone: "Retire!"

After returning to the palace, Father was still not angry.

He seldom gets angry, but he doesn't have a good temper when it comes to me.

In my presence, he summoned someone I had never met before.

"Go and find out, who are the courtiers who asked Ah Xian to go to the southern border with whom?" Dad said in a deep voice.

The man left immediately.

"Father, he is..." I asked puzzledly.

Father explained: "He was left to me by my father, his name is Lin Jianghan, and he is Lin Maixin's father."

I nodded in understanding, and then asked in surprise: "Father thinks that they let me go to the southern border because someone is behind the scenes?"

Dad said seriously: "I do have a doubt in my heart, let's wait and see, and see what Lin Jianghan can find out."

Two days later, Lin Jianghan came back.

Dad didn't avoid me and asked Lin Jianghan to report to him in front of me.

Lin Jianghan said in a cold voice: "Lord Cai's wife is acquainted with Princess Qishan, but they don't see each other very often. I stared at Madam Cai for a few days and found that her maid often came and went in and out of Xuehou's mansion."

I immediately frowned, could it be that Princess Qishan is behind the manipulation?

Dad asked, "What about the others?"

Lin Jianghan said coldly again: "Duke Sheng's wife has been trying to get in touch with Princess Qishan since the death of Princess Huangshan, but she was rejected."

(End of this chapter)

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