Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

"Your niece is the daughter of Shen Zhaojiang. Why do I see that you are not happy to see Shen Zhaojiang?" The emperor asked casually while touching the chess piece.

Fang Yao looked down at the chessboard and casually placed a piece.

"I'm glad to see him? I'd rather give him a beating."

"Oh? Why is that?"

"Your Majesty knows that Shen Zhaojiang's current wife is the Prime Minister's daughter, and is his successor, right?"

Fang Yao gave birth to another child, and without the emperor's reply, she continued, "My sister is his first and legitimate wife. Back then, that bastard Shen Zhaojiang..."

Suddenly remembering that the person in front of him was the emperor, and the emperor did not allow him to curse, he quickly stopped talking and looked at the emperor. "Your Majesty, if you promise not to curse me, I will dare to say it. If you curse me, and I don't want to lie to you, I will not say it."

"I won't scold you, just speak." said the emperor.

Fang Yao was relieved when she heard this. "Your Majesty, Shen Zhaojiang is a bastard. When my sister married him, his family was very poor. Others had nothing but a thatched hut."

The emperor was amused by him and couldn't help coughing twice.

"Your Majesty, please don't laugh. I'm telling you the truth. If you don't believe me, ask around. Many people know about this." Fang Yao hurriedly took the medicine bowl and said, "Your Majesty, please drink the medicine first."

"Put it aside for now. I drink so much medicine every day, but my illness is not getting better. My mouth is full of bitterness, and I want to vomit when I see the medicine."

"How can that be possible? Your Majesty, you must drink it," Fang Yao advised. "There must be a way. I have already sent people to the Western Frontier to invite that miracle doctor. Please wait a little longer, the miracle doctor will be here soon. I know that the medicine prescribed by those quacks in the palace will not cure the disease, but at least it can alleviate your discomfort, right? You can make do with it for now, and when the miracle doctor comes, I will let him treat you. When the time comes, I will deal with those quacks for you. I will make them drink all the bitter medicine that the emperor drank. If anyone dares to refuse, I will pinch his nose and force it down his throat."

Doctor Wang was taking Xiao Chenze's pulse inside. He heard it clearly and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

The emperor just happens to like this soldier, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

The emperor took the medicine bowl, drank it in one gulp, and rinsed his mouth with tea. "Go on, how come Shen Zhaojiang is a bastard?"

Fang Yao stared at the chessboard, his mood suddenly sour. "My sister was divorced by the Shen family and sent to the farm. The Shen family said that my sister had an affair with their coachman. Bullshit."

He tried hard to control himself from getting angry, but when he thought about the injustice his sister had suffered in the past, how she had no place to seek justice and was driven crazy, his eyes turned red.

"My sister has been wrongly accused. If Shen Zhaojiang refuses to clear her name, I will investigate on my own. The day I find out the truth, I will kick Shen Zhaojiang into the water and beat him to death."

"You're making a fool of yourself again," the emperor scolded. "You can get to the bottom of this, but you can't punish him. He's an official appointed by the court, after all. If you really find fault with him, the censors will impeach you again."

The emperor did not ask him how he knew that his sister was wrongly accused. He must have had evidence to say so.

Logically speaking, this was a shameful thing, but he could hide nothing in front of the emperor and analyze it all to him, which made the emperor very pleased.

Now, someone is trying to whitewash the situation in front of the emperor, and wants to describe himself as glamorous and pleasing to the eye.

Only Fang Yao still has the same innocent heart towards him as before.

"My adoptive parents are well-known wealthy businessmen, and I married into the Shen family with immense wealth. If it weren't for my wealth, even if Shen Zhaojiang had immense talent, he wouldn't have the money to study and take the imperial examinations, let alone rise through the ranks and have the opportunity to meet the Prime Minister's daughter."

Fang Yao glanced at the emperor at this point and put down a chess piece in anger. "When he said that your sister was unfaithful to her husband, didn't he think about these things? If your sister really was that kind of person, why would she go through so much trouble to expose him, only to turn around and have an affair with a coachman?"

Eunuch Chang listened carefully and nodded.

Yes, any normal person would think about it. Didn’t Shen Zhaojiang think about it at the beginning?

"Why was your niece sent there as well? Don't say that the child is not from the Shen family. If that were the case, things would be troublesome." The emperor teased.

"He dares?" Fang Yao glared, his eyebrows raised. "If he dared to say that, I would have set his house on fire long ago. How could I let them live until now?"

"My niece was only six years old at the time, but she was a filial child. She couldn't bear to see her mother suffer alone, so she insisted on going with her."

Fang Yao said this with emotion, and the emperor nodded repeatedly, "It's a good child. Next month is the day when the Queen holds the Peach Blossom Banquet every spring. Then let your wife bring the child in."

Fang Yao didn't say anything, just stared at the chessboard, undecided.

After a while, he put down one of the pieces and looked up at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, please tell me the truth. Are you planning to use the Peach Blossom Banquet to select princesses for the princes?"

He said that the emperor was so busy that he almost didn't have time to sleep, so why did he break his usual habit today and chat with him about family matters?

Especially just now in front of the eldest prince, the emperor said that he didn't even have someone to take care of him personally. It was obvious that the princes had already come of age, and it was time to start choosing princesses.

"Why? Don't you want your child to be the prince's consort?"

"It's not that I don't want to, but my niece is in mourning for her mother, so we have to wait three years before discussing marriage. Even the Duke of Wei was anxious to cancel the engagement for fear of ruining his child, so the princes can't afford to delay any longer."

The emperor lowered his head and played chess without saying a word.

Fang Yao simply put down the chess piece, stood up, walked to the side, and knelt down.

The emperor looked at him and asked, "What are you doing?"

Fang Yao kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, to be honest, I don't want my niece and my daughter to marry the prince."

"Tell me, I want to know why."

"Your Majesty and I are of one mind. You trust me the most. This is known not only to me but also to my colleagues in the court. If my daughter and her children were to marry the prince, no matter which one they were assigned, I would have to favor him. Even if I didn't have that intention, others would have assumed so. I really don't want to get involved in those matters. I just want to follow Your Majesty wholeheartedly. I won't get involved in other people's affairs."

The emperor understood.

The court is fighting for the position of crown prince. He is afraid of being forced to take sides, and even more afraid that this will affect the situation. This is to show his attitude to himself.

The emperor felt warm in his heart.

It was rare that at this time, there was still a minister who dared to speak frankly to him and put him first. He did not misjudge him.

"Alright, get up. When we're alone, the king and his subject, we can just talk. There's no need to kneel all the time."

"Yes." Fang Yao stood up and was about to sit down when he suddenly knelt down again. "Your Majesty, I have a very important request for you."

The emperor looked at him with amusement. This kid dared to think of anything. What was he planning to do to him?

"explain."

"Hehe, Your Majesty, I want to use the merits of defeating Yemuru last time to exchange for a favor for my niece."

Yemurru? King of the Western Regions?

The emperor was surprised. "That's a great achievement! I would even give you a princess if you asked me to. Are you really willing to give it to my niece in exchange for a favor?"

"I don't want a princess. I already have a wife at home. If the princess comes to my house, she will be bullied to death by my wife. Then the emperor will blame me for defying his authority. I don't want it."

This was already extremely disrespectful, but Eunuch Chang listened with a smile.

The emperor likes this point about General Fang. Although he seems to speak without restraint, his words are always from the heart.

The more honestly he spoke, the more the emperor trusted him.

"What kind of favor are you going to ask for from my niece? I'm telling you, I can't make her a princess."

Once she is given the title of princess, she will no longer be chosen as the prince's consort.

"I don't want her to be a princess. Even if she is, I still have to bow to her every time I see her. It's too troublesome." Fang Yao straightened his back and leaned forward with a smile. "I want to ask the emperor to issue an order to let me decide my niece's marriage."

The emperor was stunned, obviously not expecting him to say this.

On second thought, I seemed to understand what he was worried about.

The Shen family was able to abandon their daughter on the farm for so many years without picking her up. It must be because the stepmother was in charge and the child was not welcomed at home at all.

Fang Yao felt sorry for the child and wanted to support him personally.

But after such a great contribution, is this all you ask for?