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Chapter 166 Filial Piety
Dong Yuan felt that Sheng Xiuyi was right.

She also sighed secretly that he saw the problem thoroughly.

It's just these things, doesn't Sheng Changhou know?
Dong Yuan felt that he was helplessly living in the inner house.If she was walking in the court, she would be able to see it. Couldn't Marquis Sheng Chang see it?

"Since this is the case, why is Daddy still angry?" Dong Yuan asked Sheng Xiuyi, "Can't Daddy not see that Dong|Gong is falling, is it not because of your words?"

Sheng Xiuyi was silent for a moment, sighed slowly, and said, "I guess he knows, he knows better than me..."

After a slow pause, Sheng Xiuyi continued: "It's just that he is unwilling."

A word of unwillingness finally pointed out the essence of the problem.

How could the Marquis of Shengchang not know?He was just pretending to be stupid.

"One emperor and one courtier. Like Daddy, who was an official in two dynasties, the first emperor valued Daddy very much. Emperor Yuanchang used to be afraid and dependent on Daddy, but now he is more guarded. He has no trust in the past. When the next emperor ascends the throne, who can think of the future of the Sheng family?" Sheng Xiuyi said softly, "Ah Yuan, once you have tasted the beauty of something, you don't want to lose it, and even worry about gaining and losing it. Rights are such things... ... How many people can be as transparent and open-minded as Old Master Xue?"

He meant that Sheng Changhou was very afraid of losing his current high position and power.

Only in this way can Sheng Changhou find his sense of accomplishment.

Power is indeed very attractive, especially in this society ruled by man.

In the past, Sheng Xiuyi didn't think highly of Lord Xue, the Marquis of Zhenxian.The veterans of the three dynasties in his impression are just able to practice Tai Chi and have both ways.Ever since he got married to Xue's family and got along several times, Sheng Xiuyi began to feel that the fact that Lord Zhenxian survived three dynasties was not due to luck or cunning, but to know the current affairs and dare to make choices!

In the face of power, Marquis Shengchang is not as open-minded as Marquis Zhenxian.

Sheng Xiuyi admired Lord Xue very much.

"Aren't you worried?" Dong Yuan asked Sheng Xiuyi, "Aren't you worried that the Sheng family will be lonely from the court?"

Sheng Xiuyi laughed: "Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Retiring bravely from the rapids is called knowing the opportunity. If you are not in a high position, you will not seek court, and you can live freely, isn't it good?"

Dong Yuan smiled and said nothing.

Emperor Yuanchang's assassination did not dare to announce it to the outside world, but he only said that he was bedridden because of the wind and cold.

The imperial physician in charge of the hospital told Emperor Yuanchang not to get out of bed for half a month, and not to worry about the government within two months, otherwise the body would not be able to recover, and it would be even more difficult to make up for it in the future.

The third master Sheng Xiumu is still on duty every day, while Sheng Changhou does not need to go to court.

But he is still busy every day.

Because His Majesty is ill, the crown prince has not yet been announced to the world, and the two empresses in the Forbidden Palace are also fighting fiercely.

Mrs. Sheng, who lives in the inner house and doesn't care about government affairs, has also heard of these things.Because the other party was the Xue family and Concubine Xue, although she really wanted to talk to Dong Yuan, she felt that it was inappropriate, so she had to refrain from mentioning it.

Regardless of whether they are worried or not, Dong Yuan and Mrs. Sheng can't intervene in major affairs in the court.

And the marriage of the cousin girl Qin Yi was finally settled.

On April [-]th, the day when Dong Yuan first left the court, Qin Weihou's Mansion sent Sheng Wenrou, the fifth aunt of the Sheng family, to make a small wedding ceremony, discussing to marry Qin Yi on the first day of August this year.

Mrs. Sheng agreed.

The dowry gift from Qin Weihou's mansion is worth about 5000 taels of silver.

Mrs. Sheng was not greedy for these things, and after getting the permission of Sheng Changhou, she decided to buy a dowry of 8000 taels of silver for Qin Yi.

The Sheng family has always married a daughter-in-law, never married a daughter, and the two young ladies went directly to the palace.

After discussing with Mother Kang, Mrs. Sheng decided to buy Qin Yi's according to the dowry of the second grandmother Ge's back then.

Because Dong Yuan is the princess of the royal family, although her dowry is only 88 liters, it is far more generous than other people's 120 levies, not to mention the things Mrs. Xue bought for Dong Yuan in private, which were not on the gift list.

When Qin Yi got married, it was naturally not easy to compare with the princess's dowry.

The Sheng family would not spend so much money to marry her.

After the agreement was made, Mama Kang ordered the stewards of the outer courtyard to purchase.

At the beginning of May, Qin Yi's dowry was sorted out.

And Emperor Yuanchang's body has recovered a little, and he can already go to court.The first thing he did when he went to court was to discuss the establishment of a reserve.

Not all civil and military officials are biased towards the second prince, because of Sheng Changhou, the voice of the third prince is also very high.

Those who attacked the second prince almost always said that he was cowardly and timid; his mother Xue Guifei had only one prince, not as good as Sheng Guifei who had two sons, and had a complete fortune.

Those who attack the third prince are saying that his relatives are too powerful, and that in the future, he is afraid that the power will fall to the side, and there will be another disturbance in the court.

After a few days, I heard that Concubine Xue Gui cried to His Majesty, saying that she had dreams every night, and the immortal told her that only by accumulating love can God bless us.

The emperor was very moved after hearing this, so he adopted the fourth prince brought in from outside the palace under the name of Concubine Xue Gui.

In this way, Concubine Xue also has two sons.

Sheng Changhou was so angry that he vomited blood.

Sheng Xiuyi also understood why Emperor Yuanchang accepted the fourth prince given to him by King Xingping so readily.He guessed that at that moment he had planned to use the fourth prince to deal with the Sheng family.

He managed to pretend to be crazy by drinking, and told Sheng and his son what he thought about Xue Dongyuan.

In the end, Sheng's father and son pretended to be stupid!

In the end, that damned King Xingping really produced such a child!
How is he not angry?
But after thinking about it, it is estimated that the Sheng family is behind the scenes.Since this is the case, the child sent by the Sheng family, he wants this child to be the person that the Sheng family will regret in the future.

So he readily recognized the fourth prince, but he didn't say that he would take the fourth prince's mother into the palace.

This child is now fostered under the name of Concubine Xue Gui and has become the son of Concubine Xue Gui.

He probably wanted to see how the Risheng family would suffer for themselves in the future.

Marquis Sheng Chang didn't know about all this.He didn't know the ins and outs of the fourth prince, but it happened that His Majesty said "Pearl left in the sea" because of Sheng Xiuyi's behind-the-scenes push.So he thought that King Xingping was helping the Xue family and using it against the Sheng family.

I was also angry with King Xingping in my heart.

The ministers had been arguing for half a month about this matter.

On the morning of May [-]th, Emperor Yuanchang was in a bad mood, and he was unable to make a choice because of the different opinions of the ministers on the matter of setting up the reserve.So Emperor Yuanchang said that the establishment of the crown prince was an emperor's family affair. Since ancient times, the elders and children had been orderly, and the second prince had no birth defects, so he should not choose his younger brother instead of avoiding his elder brother.

This reason is really hard to argue with.

In this way, the second prince was established as the prince, and his biological mother Concubine Xue Gui was named the queen.

For a while, the Xue family went up.

Empress Xue's father, Xue Ziyou, the eldest son of Marquis Zhenxian, was conferred the title of Marquis of Yanxi, a third-class general of Fengguo, and a hereditary Marquis of Yanxi for three generations;

Three days later, it was the queen canonization ceremony.

Both internal and external wives will enter the palace to congratulate them.

Sheng Changhou fell ill unexpectedly.

This time it was really not pretending to be sick, but so angry that he had a fever in the middle of the night.

Sheng Xiuyi hurriedly invited the imperial physician, but the imperial physician only said that it was heat and poison accumulated in the heart, and phlegm qi surged up.First prescribed a few prescriptions to reduce phlegm and disperse qi, and then slowly recuperate.

After leaving the inner room, the old imperial doctor went to the small study with Sheng Xiuyi to prescribe a prescription, and then said to Sheng Xiuyi: "The Taifu has been fighting for many years, and the hidden dangers of old diseases in his body have not disappeared. The older the old disease is, the more it will be revealed. The old man looked at the Taifu It doesn't look like a new illness, but a relapse of an old one. Hearing what the old man said, the Master advised the Tai Tuo to worry less and rest more, which is the way to prolong life."

Sheng Xiuyi was stunned.

He thanked him and personally sent the imperial physician out.

Emperor Yuanchang also heard that Marquis Shengchang fell ill, so he specially issued an oral order, so that the daughters of the Sheng family did not have to go to the congratulatory ceremony to serve Shengchanghou wholeheartedly in the mansion.

Although caring, it sounds so gloating.

The entire capital was full of bustling post-closing ceremonies, but the doors of the Sheng family were closed.

Sheng Changhou had a high fever all night. After taking medicine, the fever subsided a lot, but the fever remained low, which lasted for two days.He seemed to have aged in an instant.

Sheng Xiuyi's brothers, Dong Yuan and his second grandmother Ge Shi have also been serving the sick in Yuanyang Pavilion.

Sheng Xiuyi even installed a soft couch in the inner room, and did not return to live in Jingshe courtyard, serving Sheng Changhou in front of the bed day and night.

With this disease, Sheng Changhou seemed to understand a lot of things. Seeing his eldest son working hard to fulfill his filial piety, the hatred he had for him some time ago also eased.

When he fell ill, all three sons served at the bedside.

The second master Sheng Xiuhai was a little irritable and absent-minded.

The third master Sheng Xiumu has never served others. Although he has filial piety, he doesn't know how to do it.

Only Sheng Xiuyi served Sheng Changhou when he got up to go to the toilet, wiped his body for him, and fed him medicine with his own hands, doing everything carefully and properly.

Sheng Changhou sighed lightly.

Raising children to guard against old age, he didn't understand the deep meaning of this sentence until today.

When his parents died, Mrs. Sheng was by his side.He has been fighting outside.When the old father fell ill, did he also want to have a son to take care of him so wholeheartedly?

Thinking about it, Sheng Changhou sighed again.

"During the war in the Northwest, the grassland people had a proverb: the hair that grows first is not as long as a beard, and the ears that grow first are not as hard as horns." Sheng Changhou said in a hoarse voice, "We people in the Central Plains also say this, that is, green grows out of blue and Better than Lan. Looking at you brothers, you are all more capable than Daddy, Daddy is really old..."

Both the second and third masters were taken aback for a moment, and then they realized that this sentence was a bit bleak.

The two bowed their heads.

Sheng Xiuyi's eyes were a little bitter: "Daddy is not yet fifty, how can he say he is old?"

"How can one not grow old when one is fifty and knows one's destiny?" Sheng Changhou sighed, with a sad look on his face.

The three brothers felt sour when they saw their usually strong father say such words.

Sheng Changhou's illness lasted for half a month.Because of his years of fighting, his originally dark cheeks looked mature.Now this disease, the old state suddenly appeared.

Dong Yuan also felt sad looking at it.

Comparing the bustling Xue family, the Sheng family was empty and cold during these days.

On May 28, Xue Dongshu, Dongyuan's eleventh younger sister, who entered the palace and made Concubine Shu, gave birth to a princess.

This is the fourth daughter of Emperor Yuanchang, and Emperor Yuanchang likes it very much.

Because there was residual poison in his body and his health was not good, he often coughed up blood.On the day the fourth princess was born, His Majesty unexpectedly slept soundly.

His Majesty said that the fourth princess of Concubine Xue Shu was his blessing.

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