Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1207 Zhen Huan Enlarged to 131

Of course, the news of Jiang Xinxin vomiting blood and fainting in the middle of the night would reach Big Fat Orange's ears immediately, but he chose to block the news immediately to prevent any spread of Jiang Xinxin's dissatisfaction with Prince Bao being registered under her name. At the moment, he really couldn't care about Jiang Xinxin's wishes.

People outside didn't know what was happening in the Old Summer Palace, but the concubines in the nearby Changchun Garden were always paying attention to Jiang Xinxin's movements, so when there was a slight martial law in the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden got the news and the concubines quickly gathered around the Imperial Concubine Tong Jia.

The Imperial Concubine hadn't received any more news. No matter what she did, she was trying to help Jiang Xinxin, so she couldn't cause any trouble for her. So she comforted the concubines immediately: "We don't have any more news right now. If we act rashly, it will only ruin the Queen's business. So we should try our best to get in touch with Louyue Kaiyun's people."

Concubine Chen, Princess Chaogui's biological mother, was the first to put forward her own suggestion: "Why don't we send something to the Queen in the name of the Third Princess? After all, the Third Princess has sent a silk belt before, and now that the New Year is approaching, it is reasonable to send some needlework."

Everyone thought this suggestion was very good, and the Imperial Concubine Dowager also agreed. She then asked the people around the Third Princess to go to the Old Summer Palace.

The Royal Concubine Dowager knew that she was getting old, and the future of the Third Princess would definitely be in the hands of Queen Jiang Xinxin and Dapangju. Relatively speaking, Queen Jiang Xinxin was easier to talk to, or more able to understand the difficulties a woman faced in life.

So after the Third Princess started to understand things, the Imperial Concubine Dowager told her all about her life story and asked her to be more respectful to Queen Jiang Xinxin.

As for what Concubine Chen had mentioned before about the Third Princess giving Jiang Xinxin a necklace, that was just a trick taught to the Third Princess by the Imperial Concubine Dowager as a way to get closer to Jiang Xinxin.

However, even if this time she was going to the Old Summer Palace to gather information, the Third Princess still made full preparations for the needlework suggested by Concubine Chen. She had just learned needlework not long ago, and even though she had some talent, she couldn't keep up with the speed of the work, so the embroidery patterns she chose were almost all simple crabapple and ruyi patterns, or orchids, plum blossoms, green bamboo and the like.

But it is undeniable that she put her heart into it.

The items provided by the third princess included a pair of bright yellow gourd-shaped purses embroidered with auspicious crabapple patterns, a pair of woolen gloves and a sleeve. The governess handed the sign to Jiang Xinxin in advance as per the usual practice. When Jianqiu saw it, she wanted to refuse immediately, but was stopped by Jiang Xinxin.

"Jianqiu, haven't you noticed anything wrong yet?"

"Although we are not trapped in the Old Summer Palace, the news of my illness has not spread at all. Now the third princess has suddenly sent the New Year's gift in advance. I guess the concubines must have sensed something was wrong and sent people to inquire about the situation."

Jianqiu's tears came down in an instant. Jiang Fuhai's gums were swollen in several places due to his anxiety these past two days. It was winter now, and he had drunk several bowls of heat-clearing medicine.

Jiang Xinxin hurriedly comforted him: "Okay, after all, this time the Yangxin Palace only blocked the news that I was vomiting blood and seriously ill, and they didn't intend to watch me being drugged and murdered."

So Jianqiu really wanted time to go back to the day when Jiang Xinxin pulled out the hairpin on her head and stabbed it into Dapangju's neck. She shouldn't have worried that Jiang Xinxin would be charged with regicide, but should have simply helped Jiang Xinxin and carried out the act of regicide!

"My lady, it's all my fault!"

"I thought you could tell His Majesty about Prince Honghui's death, and that you could..."

"It was because you had let things go, and Prince Bao promised to adopt his second legitimate son to Prince Honghui, so I felt that I had finally put your worries to rest, and I developed a favorable impression of Prince Bao at that time..."

Jiang Xinxin really thought that this was not a big deal, but Jianqiu felt deeply guilty and blamed herself for it, and was very uneasy. She could only try her best to help vent her emotions, "Jianqiu, you also know that those things back then were not fair at all. It is said that women are most likely to indulge in love and cannot extricate themselves, while men are obsessed with power and cannot easily get rid of it."

"So, it might not be a bad thing that Honghui died prematurely. Although he passed away early and had not seen many sights or experienced the world, it was a good thing for him to reincarnate as soon as possible with parents like me and the one in Yangxin Palace."

This is not Jiang Xinxin's nonsense, this is Yixiu's true thoughts.

But Jianqiu still blamed herself. She still believed that she had taken the initiative to show goodwill to Prince Bao, which was a betrayal of Jiang Xinxin and the eldest prince Honghui.

Jiang Xinxin was helpless. She couldn't make her point for a while, so she could only divert her attention: "The people from the Third Princess are coming. Don't say anything more. Just say that I am indeed sick. Don't say that I am very dissatisfied with Prince Bao being registered under my name. The concubines finally have a few days of peace. Don't disturb their peace."

Fortunately, Jianqiu listened to her. Jiang Xinxin didn't want to see anyone, so she went out and said that Jiang Xinxin had caught a cold and had a quarrel with Dapangju. Dapangju was worried that if something bad happened on her side it would get to the ears of the royal family and cause unnecessary trouble, so he blocked the news.

The nanny didn't quite believe the reason given by Jianqiu, but this did seem like something Dapangju would do. When she went back to report to the concubines, she still mentioned the eldest prince Honghui.

From this, the Royal Concubine finally understood why Da Pangju wanted to conceal the news of Jiang Xinxin's serious illness from the outside world, and registered Prince Bao under Jiang Xinxin's name. Then Jiang Xinxin fell ill. It was either that Jiang Xinxin was dissatisfied with Da Pangju's decision, or that Prince Bao and Jiang Xinxin were incompatible. Either way, it was not good for the royal family.

What’s even worse is that the Imperial Concubine Dowager saw the irreconcilable rift between Jiang Xinxin and Dapangju.

The Imperial Concubine did not hide this matter from the Third Princess, because the Third Princess was now grown up and had begun to understand things early on, so there was really no need to hide these things from her.

She even did not hide from the Third Princess her guess that there was an irreconcilable rift between Jiang Xinxin and Big Fat Ju, but she also gave a very optimistic guess about Jiang Xinxin's future: "Now the position of crown prince is only missing an imperial edict, but your father said early on that the crown prince would not be publicly appointed, so to this extent today, Prince Bao is already a true crown prince."

"And your father, despite the obvious rift between them, still registered Prince Bao under the name of the Empress, which shows that he wants the Empress to become the only Empress Dowager in the future. So no matter what, they have already resolved the matter between the elders themselves."

"I told you these things because I didn't want you to be kept in the dark. I also wanted to take this opportunity to let you see the power of common interests beyond feelings."

Of course the Third Princess didn't quite understand, but that didn't matter. The Imperial Concubine Dowager asked her to remember all these things, and she would understand them in the future.