Chapter 1: Hou Fu's eldest son【14】
The eighth prince is still only a ten-year-old child. Compared with his elder brothers who have grown up and entered the court, his disadvantage is that he is young and his power is not strong enough. His advantage is that he has a noble birth. Long courtiers as his backing.
In the system of direct succession, if there is a direct eldest son, the direct eldest son will be the heir; if there is no direct descendant, the direct descendant will be elected; However, the royal family is the place in the world that attaches the most importance to the rules and the most unruly. Historically, the emperors were rarely the eldest sons, and they all competed for the throne based on their abilities.
The current emperor has not yet established a prince, and obviously he wants the princes to fight for themselves. Of course, there are reasons why the emperor is healthy and has no intention to establish a prince.
Yuan Jia didn't want to get involved in the battle for the prince's succession, but he really wanted to change to a worthy emperor. However, his eyes turned around on these popular candidates for the prince, and reasons quickly emerged in his mind. The princes have all been crossed out: the eldest prince is so beautiful, the backyard often catches fire, and he is a person who can't be carried in front of beautiful women; the third prince's mother's family is at odds with Weining Hou's mansion, and letting him ascend will affect the future of Weining's mansion. Development; the fourth prince and the mother concubine were the imperial concubine of the dynasty, who favored the harem. However, the noble concubine had a strong personality and made the fourth prince a bit submissive. Li Changjin, cousin of the Eighth Prince.
In the end, Yuan Jia had no choice but to give up the idea of privately supporting a prince to ascend to the throne. Since changing the emperor is not an easy way to do it, it would be a good idea to let the eldest princess fall out of favor in front of the emperor.
Today's emperor will be partial to the person he loves, but he is also an emperor who will judge the situation and consider the profit and loss.
In the original plot, although Fu Yuanjia was the head of the Sixth Yuan Dynasty, he had not shown enough weight, so naturally he was not as good as his beloved daughter, the eldest princess, in the emperor's heart.
But if Yuan Jia showed enough weight to become an important official in the court, an indispensable existence, and then let the eldest princess fall out of favor with the emperor, then it would be self-evident in the emperor's heart.
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After the worship, the emperor and the empress drove back to the palace. Yuan Jia also recovered from his thoughts. He looked at the figures of the emperor and the empress leaving before and after, and glanced at Li Changjin, who was dressed in a happy robe and became the concubine. He left. In the past, I talked with Li Changjin for a while.
In any case, it is necessary to maintain a good relationship with Li Changjin.
After the wedding banquet, Yuan Jia returned to Weining Hou's mansion, and told Weining Hou of what he saw at Cheng'en's mansion today. Whoever went to participate, who only sent a junior as a representative like their family, He spoke clearly.
After listening, Wei Ninghou nodded and said, "You are also tired today, go back and have a good rest!"
Yuan Jia said: "The son retire."
Yuan Jia returned to his yard, Fang Yan saw him coming back, so she instructed the maid to wash his feet with water, so that he could soak his feet to get rid of fatigue.
Yuan Jia sat down and breathed a sigh of relief: "Today I went to the wedding banquet of the eldest princess. Her Majesty and the Empress are here. The atmosphere is serious, and I didn't dare to eat anything at the wedding banquet. Let the kitchen serve me a bowl of chicken noodles!"
Fang Yan hurriedly ordered to go down, and then sat next to him and chatted with him about family affairs: "Husband, I don't know that there is another happy event in the house today."
Yuan Jia asked curiously, "What's the happy event?"
Fang Yan smiled lightly: "Today, my younger brother and sister are not feeling well for some reason, and they have fallen into the red. It was only after the doctor came to see that they found out that my younger sister and younger brother had a lot of fetal gas because of the ups and downs. It turned out that my younger brother and sister had been pregnant for two months."
When Yuan Jia heard the news of Luo Qing's pregnancy, she raised her eyebrows in surprise, and said in a light tone, "That's a happy event."
The original owners, Fu Yuanjia and Luo Qing, were probably really at odds with each other. In the original plot, Luo Qing and Fu Yuanjia got married and there was no pregnancy news for several years. Now that Luo Qing is married to Fu Yuanze, she is only a few months later than Fang Yan in getting pregnant.
As for Luo Qing's mood ups and downs, Yuan Jia knew that Luo Qing's mood was ups and downs because of the wedding of the eldest princess today.
Presumably, Luo Qing's mood was very complicated after knowing that the princess was mainly married to Li Changjin. She thought she was in control of everything after her rebirth, but as a result, the one thing she cared about the most became completely different.
The news of Luo Qing was only skipped in Yuan Jia's mind, and was quickly forgotten. He reached out and stroked Fang Yan's already obviously pregnant belly, and said softly: "What about the second brother? You don't have to worry about it, and you don't have to worry about the relationship between your cousins and sisters, just have a good miscarriage."
Fang Yan nodded: "I know, my younger brother and sister invited me to have tea, but I declined." From the fact that she only called Luo Qing a younger brother and a younger sister, it could be seen that she really didn't have much sisterly affection for Luo Qing.
Fang Yan looked down at her belly. After the month was old, she was already covered by her belly and couldn't see her feet. She said to Yuan Jia, "The child will be born soon. Husband, have you thought of the child's name?"
Yuan Jia frowned slightly and said, "My father has to take the name, we can only take the baby name."
Fang Yan said regretfully, "We can't take a baby name either. The mother said she gave her baby a baby name."
Yuan Jia and Fang Yan looked at each other, both helpless. As parents, the naming rights of their children are completely out of their hands, and they are also very depressed.
The chicken shredded noodles prepared in the kitchen were brought up. Yuan Jia slowly finished the bowl of hot noodles and felt comfortable in his stomach, so he chatted with Fang Yan for a while before going to wash up and rest.
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Fang Yan's due date was just a few months before Yuan Jia's meeting, so Yuan Jia guarded the whole process of giving birth, sent his wife to the delivery room in person, and stayed outside the delivery room, waiting to hold her child in person.
Yuan Jia stood outside the delivery room with a look of anxiety. The production conditions in ancient times were not good. When a woman gave birth to a child, she only stepped into the gate of **** with half a foot. How could he not worry?
Mrs. Weining Hou was also a little nervous, but she was nervous about her eldest grandson.
Luo Qing also came. She stood beside Mrs. Weining Hou, her eyes fell on Yuan Jia's anxious face, she lowered her eyes slightly, and silently prayed in her heart that Fang Yan would give birth to a daughter, or she would simply die.
More than two hours after Fang Yan entered the delivery room, a loud cry of a baby was finally heard from the door.
Yuan Jia suddenly felt the boulder in his heart fall to the ground, and walked towards the door of the delivery room subconsciously. When the woman inside was holding the swaddle to open the door, she was startled by Yuan Jia who was standing at the door: "Master Shizi!"
Yuan Jia glanced at the swaddling clothes, then craned his neck to see the situation in the delivery room behind Granny Wen, but unfortunately it was blocked by a screen. He couldn't see anything, so he could only ask anxiously, "Is the young lady alright?"
Fang Yan, who was a little out of strength after giving birth, was still awake. Hearing Yuan Jia's questioning from the door, she felt a warm current in her heart, and she couldn't help showing a gentle smile on her face: "My concubine is very good, husband doesn't need to Worry."
Yuan Jia listened to Fang Yan's voice, and felt a lot more relieved. She wanted to go to the delivery room, but she suddenly thought that there was no sterilization condition now. He stopped when he brought some bacteria and viruses to the frail mother who had just given birth.
Mrs. Weining Hou came over, her eyes fell on the swaddling clothes in Granny Wen's hands, and she asked expectantly, "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Granny Wen replied with a respectful smile: "Congratulations to the madam, congratulations to the son, the young madam gave birth to a boy!"
It doesn't matter if Yuan Jia Fangyan is a boy or a girl, he is not a man who prefers boys to girls, but in this social environment, boys will be more comfortable in life, and girls will be more restrained.
Mrs. Weining Hou was very happy, she reached out to hug the child, looked at her eldest grandson's eyebrows with tender eyes, and said with joy, "My eldest grandson is really handsome, and he was carved in the same mold as his father."
Yuan Jia glanced at the red and wrinkled appearance of the newborn, like a little old man, and he didn't seem to look like himself at all, "Where did the mother know that this child looks like mine?"
Mrs. Weininghou glared at him, and then looked at the child tenderly: "Everywhere, especially the eyebrows and nose, the most like you!"
Yuan Jia glanced at the child's brows that were so pale that they could hardly be seen, and the bridge of his nose that was a little slumped. He really couldn't see the resemblance to his own sword eyebrows and high nose bridge. But this time, he didn't say it out of his sense of interest, and let Mrs. Weininghou, who has a grandson, do everything, to praise her grandson.
Luo Qing, who was ignored by the side, couldn't help but turn around and left. She was afraid that if she continued to look at it, she couldn't help but show something that shouldn't be shown, which would arouse Madam Weininghou's disgust.
Luo Qing didn't expect that she just changed her husband and gave her ex-husband Fu Yuanjia a wife, but everything was different.
The eldest princess, who would have robbed her husband by force, got married early, and Fu Yuanjia had the eldest son before the meeting.
So even if Fu Yuanjia will still die in the future, with his eldest grandson, what is the son of Fu Yuanze?
Luo Qing touched her belly, turned her head and glanced at the swaddle that Mrs. Weining Hou was holding in her hands, a gloomy look flashed in her eyes.
Luo Qing returned to her yard. At this time, Fu Yuanze was not at the house, and went out to party with his friends. In Luo Qing's opinion, Fu Yuanze just didn't study well at home to prepare for the rural exam, and went to fool around with friends.
However, Luo Qing passed by the gate of her own courtyard and did not enter, and went to Concubine Zhang's residence instead.
Concubine Zhang is the most favored among the concubines, and her treatment is not bad, and the yard she lives in is also relatively good.
But the yard where Aunt Zhang lived was obviously impossible to compare with Mrs. Weining Hou's main house and the place where the prince Fu Yuanjia lived. Luo Qing was a little disgusted when she saw where Aunt Zhang lived.
Luo Qing not only disliked the yard where Aunt Zhang lived, but also the yard where she and Fu Yuanze lived now, which was too small compared to Fu Yuanjia.