Chapter 173: Little Prince【06】
In order to show the importance he attached to Zhou Hongyuan, Yuan Jia took Zhou Hongyuan back to the palace of the eldest princess.
When Changning Hou Le saw his success, he immediately ordered his servants to follow him. If Yuan Jia had not told Zhou Hongyuan to come back before dark and only go to the Princess Chang's house for one day, he would have asked people to pack Zhou Hongyuan's luggage. Take it to stay for a few days.
Yuan Jia took the imperial doctor to visit the sick Zhou Hongyuan in the Houfu of Changning, but he brought back a lively Zhou Hongyuan.
Princess Xihua was a little surprised at first glance, but when Yuan Jia said that Mrs. Changning Hou deliberately lied to him that Zhou Hongyuan was sick, and then thought of the situation in the backyard of Changning Hou's mansion, she immediately understood.
Looking at Zhou Hongyuan, who is about the same age as her son, Princess Xihua also showed a little more pity in her eyes, and said, "As long as you're not sick, just stay here and play with Jia'er."
Princess Xihua did not contradict Yuan Jia who often brought Zhou Hongyuan to play at home, and Yuan Jia sent people to Changning Hou's mansion every three or five times to pick him up.
After a year passed, Mrs. Changning Hou, who made a mistake, contacted her family, and her parents and brothers went away, so Changning Hou released her from the grounding.
Although Mrs. Changninghou's family was not a very high-ranking person, it was still more powerful than Changninghou, who had no title at home, and Changninghou did not want to offend him.
After Mrs. Changning Hou's ban was lifted, she was so angry that Zhou Hongyuan, the little brat, was taken to the princess' residence every few minutes, and her relationship with the little prince was getting better and better.
She wanted Zhou Hongyuan to take her son with her, and wanted her son to replace Zhou Hongyuan's position in the heart of the little prince.
It's a pity that she underestimated the child's exclusive desire for good friends. Zhou Hongyuan didn't want his only good friend to play with others, or with his annoying brother.
Therefore, no matter what Mrs. Changning Hou said, he would not let go, and Mrs. Changning Hou was so angry that she couldn't stop cursing.
After Yuanjia was six years old, Princess Xihua suddenly asked him one day, "Do you want to play with your prince brother?"
Naturally, Yuan Jia wouldn't simply think that Eldest Princess Xihua was concerned about the friendship between her son and the crown prince. He recalled the prince who was two years older than him but had a gentle temperament. When he was in the palace, the little prince was kind to him. Taking care of him, in addition to forcing him to call him brother, he has a good sense of the little prince.
"Mother, wait until I enter the palace to play with the prince's brother."
Yuan Jia did not directly answer Princess Xihua's words.
Princess Xihua asked again: "Then do you like your brother prince? Would you like to go to school together?"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Jia immediately understood what Princess Xihua meant, probably because the little prince wanted to choose a companion to read, and Princess Xihua wanted to send him to read as a companion to the little prince.
Companions are the classmates of the princes. Although their status is high, they are not bad. Only children with royal relatives or important officials in the court receive this treatment.
Yuan Jia is the eldest son of Princess Xihua and King Jianping. His status is noble, and ordinary princes are not qualified to ask him to be a companion, but the companions of princes are different from those of ordinary princes.
He thought of the situation where the Jianping Palace was feared by the emperor, and the plot of King Jianping who rebelled and was executed in the original book... Although he has a distinguished status now, he is in danger everywhere. His father and uncle are at odds, and he and his mother are caught in the middle. The most embarrassing people were him and Princess Xihua.
He was even more embarrassed than Princess Xihua, because Princess Xihua could fall to the emperor, and if he completely surrendered to the emperor, he would inevitably carry a reputation for being unfilial to his father. But if he turned to King Jianping, he would have to accompany King Jianping all the way to the dark, bear the reputation of being unfaithful, and put Princess Xihua at a disadvantage.
Yuan Jia sighed in his heart, but did not reveal the slightest on his face, and said to Princess Xihua, "I am willing to go to school with Brother Prince!"
Princess Xihua immediately touched his little head with a smile and said, "Okay, mother will enter the palace and tell you the emperor's uncle, and let you go to school with your brother prince."
In this way, the matter of Yuan Jia becoming the prince's companion was settled.
Because he had to accompany the little prince to the study and school every day, Yuan Jia was kept in the palace by the queen mother, and asked him to live with the little prince in the East Palace, returning home one day a week.
After everything was settled, King Jianping knew about it.
King Jianping asked Princess Xihua angrily: "Why didn't the princess discuss with this king?"
Princess Xihua said, "Yuan Jia should decide this matter. He is willing to go to school with the crown prince. How can I stop this mother-in-law?"
King Jianping frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "Now that the emperor is prosperous in spring and autumn, and the prince is young, there is no need for us to bind the prince in advance and send Yuan Jia to the palace. We can only see each other a few times a month. Willing to?"
Princess Xihua glanced at King Jianping and said indifferently: "You can only see each other a few times a month, and this palace can go to the palace every day to accompany the mother." Then she can also see her son every day.
King Jianping and Princess Xihua quarreled for a few words, but when they got nowhere, they walked away angrily and returned to the palace of Jianping.
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Yuan Jia entered the palace as a companion for the little prince, so he had no time to invite Zhou Hongyuan to come to the eldest princess' mansion to play.
He originally wanted to wait for the little prince's holiday this month, take the little prince out of the palace to the eldest princess' mansion, and invite Zhou Hongyuan to come over and show his face in front of the little prince.
If Zhou Hongyuan is really the male protagonist Qi Yuan, then according to the original plot, the male protagonist should have a good relationship with the next emperor in the future.
As a result, after he entered the palace and went to school for a week and returned home, he actually learned the news of Zhou Hongyuan's disappearance from Princess Xihua.
"What? Missing?" Yuan Jia was shocked, "How did you disappear?"
Princess Xihua frowned slightly and said, "The Marquis of Changning said that Mrs. Marquis of Changning took him to the temple to offer incense, but there were too many people, so he ran around mischievously and got lost, he must have been abducted by kidnappers. "
As soon as she mentioned "abductee", she remembered the incident when her son was almost abducted a year ago, and she showed disgust and hatred on her face.
Yuan Jia sneered in his heart, Zhou Hongyuan was kidnapped twice in just one year, is that a coincidence?
"Mother, brother Hongyuan has been missing for two days, hasn't he been found yet?"
Princess Xihua sighed: "There were too many people at that time, and Zhou Hongyuan's stepmother Chen Shi also deliberately didn't want people to find him. It is very likely that the clues given out were also deliberately misleading, so it is very likely that the child will not be found. Big…"
The Marquis of Changning lost his son, of course he was furious, but no matter how angry he was with his wife Chen, it was impossible to divorce his wife or do anything to her just for the sake of the remaining two sons-in-law, at most reprimanded or grounded , depriving her of the management rights of the inner court and the like.
These are all punishments that don't hurt the bones. Mrs. Changning Hou, who is backed by two direct sons, is not afraid of these at all. After removing Zhou Hongyuan, who stood in the way, the vacated position of the prince is not her son's?
What if anyone with discernment could see that this was related to her? What if her reputation got worse and her son's reputation got worse as well?
Mrs. Changning Hou has no access to the circle of powerful wives at all. Her social circle is filled with some small officials and wives.
Mrs. Changning Hou's way of doing things is stupid, but she has to admit that she has achieved her goals.
It is impossible for the emperor to block the capital to investigate the whereabouts of Zhou Hongyuan for a small prince of Changning Hou. At most, Yuan Jia asked Princess Xihua and King Jianping to help find it.
However, two days have passed since Zhou Hongyuan was kidnapped, and there is probably the deliberate indulgence of Mrs. Changning Hou behind him. Most of the kidnappers have already left the capital.
Yuan Jia didn't expect things to develop to this point. He thought that he had shown that he valued Zhou Hongyuan, so that the Hou Changning could pay more attention to Zhou Hongyuan, and Mrs. Changning Hou felt scruples and dared not harm Zhou Hong again. Far.
But he didn't expect that Mrs. Changning Hou was stupid and poisonous. She didn't care about the consequences and wanted to eradicate the threat of Zhou Hongyuan.
Yuan Jia could only do his best to send someone to find Zhou Hongyuan, and secretly prayed that Zhou Hongyuan was really the original male protagonist Qi Yuan, and had the male protagonist's halo to protect him, otherwise, what would happen if a six-year-old child was kidnapped and sold?
However, Mrs. Changning Hou did such a vicious thing, and Yuan Jia was not willing to let her go.
He knew that the emperor hated the organization of human traffickers because of the abduction incident a year ago, so he went to the emperor's uncle to cry: "Uncle, Yuan Jia's good friend was kidnapped by abductors..."
He inadvertently mentioned the behavior of Mrs. Changninghou, the stepmother, in his cry, which made the emperor naturally think that Mrs. Changninghou, the stepmother, had colluded with human traffickers to abduct and sell her stepson in order to eradicate the eldest son of the original spouse to make way for her son.
The emperor, who hated the traffickers, turned his anger on Mrs. Changning Hou, but he was still a sensible and sensible monarch.
Although the abducted Zhou Hongyuan was still not found, the truth was indeed investigated. It was indeed that Mrs. Chen of Changning Hou deliberately contacted the traffickers and tricked Zhou Hongyuan to a place with few people outside the temple and handed it over to the traffickers, who were dizzy and carried away. Where will this child be sold in the future, but because two traffickers who handled it cunningly escaped, they were not caught and were not found out.
But just based on the facts found out, it is enough to convict Mrs. Chen of Changninghou.
The emperor turned his anger on the Marquis of Changning, just as he saw that these wastes who were occupying the title and had no production and no ability were not pleasing to the eye, he directly slapped his title, and then made Chen's wife as a concubine, and ordered the Marquis of Changning to divorce. she.
The Chen's organization has done all the calculations for the Marquis of Changning, and it turns out that it is good now, the title is gone, the status of his wife is gone, and the person has not yet returned to his mother's family. Her two sons have also changed from direct sons to concubines. The father was angry and disgusted.
Everything is empty!
Chen's family was divorced and returned to her mother's family. Her mother's family was also unwilling to accept an out-married daughter who would harm their reputation, and turned them away. In the end, Chen's madness ran away, and no one paid attention to what happened.
Father Zhou, who lost his title, could no longer live in the Marquis of Changning. He could only move to a small house that had never been sold because of its poor location and small size and the price was not high.
He couldn't keep so many concubines, so he dismissed all the concubines, but the children were still raised, but it was much more difficult than the days in Changning Hou's mansion. The only advantage is probably that there is no need to put on the ostentation of the mansion, and most of the concubines and servants are dismissed, which saves expenses, and the life is barely able to go on.
In a blink of an eye, ten years have passed.