The Self-cultivation of a Salted Fish Concubine

"Is this what I taught you every day?!"

The emperor questioned angrily, but the seventh prince just kept his head down in silence.

Her tightly pursed lips revealed a hint of stubbornness.

The emperor grew angrier and angrier as he watched, "Who do you think you can hide your visit to Chunyi Pavilion to look for that little palace maid from?!"

When the Seventh Prince heard this, he suddenly looked up.

When the emperor saw this, he became even angrier and threw the paperweight on the table at her.

"idiot!"

He pointed at the Seventh Prince's nose and cursed, "It was I who had you taken away from Wu Baolin's palace."

"It was also because I despised Wu Baolin's stupidity and short-sightedness that I refused to let her raise the child, not to mention the palace rules."

"If you have the guts, blame me, or blame the ancestors of the Great Yu Dynasty, and ask them why they set such rules?!"

The Seventh Prince was a little flustered and said quickly, "I dare not!"

"Don't dare?!" The emperor wanted to laugh when he heard this, but it only made him angrier. "Yes, you are afraid of me, so you don't dare. But you are not afraid of your mother. You rely on her love for you and act recklessly."

The emperor seemed to think of Wu Baolin who had been causing trouble in the harem, and said with disgust, "You are really the same as Wu, stupid and evil!"

The Seventh Prince's face darkened. He opened his mouth to explain something, but then he heard the Emperor say, "If you feel that Concubine Jingde is unworthy of being your mother, shall I grant your wish?"

The Seventh Prince felt wronged and said stubbornly, "It was my mother who killed my biological mother!"

The emperor's face changed and he slapped the seventh prince in the face.

The emperor was also angered to death by this stupid son.

"Did Concubine Jingde kill you, Wu Baolin? You really believed the words of a lowly palace maid."

The emperor saw through it immediately and said harshly, "You say you're feeling sorry for your biological mother, but you're just a heartless person!"

"You don't even care about your adoptive mother who raised you for eighteen years, so how could you care about your biological mother who died a long time ago and whom you've never met?!"

"joke!"

For a moment, the Seventh Prince's face turned pale.

The emperor was originally planning to teach the seventh prince a lesson, but when he saw the seventh prince's reaction, he immediately lost interest.

He waved his hand and said, "Send the Seventh Prince out of the palace, and then tell Concubine Jingde everything I said today."

The Seventh Prince's body suddenly stiffened.

The emperor glanced at him and asked, "Why, are you scared?"

The Seventh Prince said stubbornly, "I am not afraid."

"Although I feel guilty towards my mother, I also want to clarify what happened back then, so that my biological mother will not die unjustly and my son will not recognize a thief as his mother!"

The emperor glared at the seventh prince coldly, then suddenly smiled, "Well said!"

"Well said, he really is my son!"

All the words spoken in the Zichen Palace fell into the ears of Concubine Jingde, and she collapsed instantly.

Wrong, wrong, absolutely wrong!

She shouldn't raise someone else's child as her own, and shouldn't treat the child with all her heart... If she can't raise the child well, then she can't raise the child well!

The child she had raised with so much hard work and effort for eighteen years actually resented and hated her so much!

Perhaps, she should have listened to Xie Run's advice and been nicer to Wu Baolin, allowing her to survive that winter.

Or maybe, she should have listened to Mother Du's advice and not been so sincere to him, but just treated him like someone else's child, treating him with respect and keeping her distance...

When he reached middle age, he finally paid the price for his stubbornness and willfulness.

Concubine Jingde held Taoyao's hand tremblingly, her eyes vacant, "Taoyao, do you think I have done too many evil things in the past and now I am suffering the consequences?!"

Tao Yao was shocked: "My Lady, how could you think like that?!"

"This is the Seventh Prince's fault, how can you be blamed?!"

From that day on, Concubine Jingde fell ill.

Seeing that something was wrong, Xie Run quickly and quietly delivered a letter to the Mountain Resort.

Some time ago, the Crown Prince took the Sixth Prince and the Eighth Prince to the Summer Resort to practice hunting, so they were not in the palace.

"Send someone to call back the Eighth Prince!"

"Concubine Jingde has lost her former spirit. She's so angry over an unfilial son that she's probably forgotten she has another child."

"If he falls seriously ill and never gets back, how will the Eighth Prince cope? Wouldn't all her life's work be in vain?!"

Baozhen came to Fengyi Palace for dinner today. After hearing this, she asked secretly, "Mother, do you mean that if your son makes you angry in the future, you will not want him anymore, but only want his brother?"

Xie Run glanced at him and asked, "Why, are you planning to make the Queen Mother angry?"

Baozhen immediately retracted her gaze and said obediently, "My son wouldn't do that. He's the best!"

"Seventh Brother, you are so ungrateful that you will be struck by lightning!"

Xie Run couldn't help but slap him, "What nonsense are you talking about, you bastard!"

After Baozhen was beaten, she laughed even more happily.

It seemed like the more Xie Run beat him, the happier he was.

It takes three days of galloping to get from the Summer Resort to the Imperial Palace.

Xie Run thought that it would take at least six or seven days for the message to be delivered back and forth.

Unexpectedly, the eighth prince entered the palace on the fifth day.

Xie Run was handling palace affairs when he suddenly heard the news, "Empress, the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince are fighting."

Xie Run was stunned. "Have you told Concubine Jingde about this?"

"Empress Jingde is ill now, and everyone is afraid to tell her for fear of upsetting her."

Xie Run: "Go and tell her the news. Ask her if she wants to hurt a filial son for an unfilial son?"

"Or maybe she was hit hard and doesn't want to keep both sons?"

Xiao Shu laughed and said, "Empress Jingde is very proud. After hearing what you said, I'm afraid she would crawl to her feet to stop the two princes."

Xie Run thought about it and sighed, "I raised two sons, and one of them has a conscience. That's enough."

Xiao Shu smiled and said, "Master, please don't let the Tenth Prince hear this, or he'll pester you with questions again."

Xie Run held his forehead with his hand as he felt a headache.

When Concubine Jingde heard the news, she did not crawl to stop the Eighth Prince.

Because the Eighth Prince had already run to Concubine Jingde's bed and cried with wounds all over his face.

"Mother, aren't you planning on having a son?!"

Concubine Jingde was in a coma due to her illness, but suddenly she heard the Eighth Prince crying and she became a little more awake.

She saw the wound on the Eighth Prince's face and asked worriedly, "Did you and your brother fight again?!"

The Eighth Prince complained aggrievedly, "Mother is scolding her son again?!"

"no……"

The Eighth Prince continued to wail, "Mother used to love Xiao Lian more than me. I thought that since I was registered under your name and became your biological son, you would favor me over me."

"But now that he's so unfilial, why is Mother still favoring him and scolding her son?"

Concubine Jingde was still angry with the Seventh Prince, and now she was even more angry with the Eighth Prince's call.

"You heartless person, when has Mother ever favored Lian'er over you?!"

"As for food, clothing, and other necessities, whatever Lian'er has, I will definitely prepare for you. Even you two brothers quarrel all the time, and I can't even comfort them..."

As she spoke, Concubine Jingde thought of her two children's childhood and tears suddenly fell.

It wasn't like this before.