pdf-ebookys Chapter 395 Li Yuanke's postpartum depression is getting worse.
Chapter 395 Li Yuanke's postpartum depression is getting worse.
The Fifth Prince initially thought he had misheard. Seeing everyone around him lower their heads, looking as if they knew everything, he panicked and rushed forward to grab the First Princess. "You're talking nonsense! Who are you calling a guilty concubine?"
When the fifth prince was born, his birth mother's name on the imperial genealogy was Consort Shu.
Consort Shu and the Empress were on good terms, which made everyone in the palace wary, and no one dared to mention the Fifth Prince's background.
"You don't actually believe you're Consort Shu's son, do you? Hahaha, that's hilarious! Your birth mother is Consort Xue, a traitor, a..."
Before she could finish speaking, her guards covered her mouth and took her away.
The fifth prince was struck dumb, standing there like a fool.
He returned to the palace in a daze. Consort Shu was terrified when she saw him like this. She hugged him and said, "What's wrong? Little Fifth, don't frighten your mother. What happened? Tell your mother. Don't be afraid, your mother is here!"
The fifth prince, with tears in his eyes, asked, "Mother, my eldest sister said I wasn't born to you. Is that true?"
Consort Shu was struck dumb, her body stiffening for a moment before she quickly recovered, "You ran into your eldest sister? Is that what she said?"
The Fifth Prince cried, nodded, and remained silent. He already knew the answer: what his eldest sister said was true. He was not born to his mother. How could he not be born to his mother?
No wonder his father doesn't like him; no matter how hard he tries, his father can't see it.
Consort Shu didn't know what to do. Seeing the child looking so devastated, she was very worried. She grabbed her son and said, "Come on, let's go find the Empress!"
Chen Yuan is very clever. If she doesn't know what to do, Chen Yuan will definitely know.
When Li Yuanke heard that Consort Shu was requesting an audience, he became very wary. "What is she doing here again? She comes every few days, doesn't she have something better to do?"
Shen Shixi was speechless. "Why would she come looking for me if she had nothing better to do? Let her in!"
Li Yuanke sat still with his eleventh and twelfth daughters, not saying a word to the women. He, a grown man, should avoid speaking, but this was a good opportunity for him to see what Consort Shu had to say.
As soon as Consort Shu entered with the stunned Fifth Prince, she released her son and rushed towards Shen Shixi, crying, "Chenyuan, waaaah, please help me, waaaah, it's too much, they really went too far! Little Fifth is so young, waaaah..."
This wasn't the first time Shen Shixi had been hugged and cried. He patted her back, about to comfort her, when Li Yuanke grabbed him and pulled him away.
"What kind of behavior is this? Don't you have any manners at all?" Li Yuanke roared at Consort Shu.
He threw Eleven onto the bed, holding Twelve in one arm and dragging the Empress with the other.
Consort Shu was stunned by his shout and it took her a while to realize that the Emperor was still there. Somewhat at a loss, she asked a foolish question, "Why is the Emperor here too?"
Li Yuanke was convinced that Consort Shu harbored ulterior motives, and angrily said, "This is Qian Yuan Palace. Why am I here? What are you doing here?"
Consort Shu was still afraid of him, mainly because the Emperor held the power of life and death. She quickly pulled the Fifth Prince to bow, saying, "Your Majesty, I respectfully wish you good health! May Your Majesty the Empress be well!"
The fifth prince also bowed like a puppet.
Li Yuanke glared at Consort Shu, clearly disliking her, and didn't tell her to get up, just leaving her there. After releasing Shen Shixi, he picked up Eleven.
Shen Shixi had no choice but to say, "Get up, what's wrong with Xiao Wu?"
Consort Shu pulled her son up again, not daring to be presumptuous. She was unaware that the Emperor was guarding against her like a thief, thinking that he only minded that she did not bow properly.
"Your Majesty, Xiao Wu is clearly my son, but the Eldest Princess saw him today and said he's the son of a disgraced concubine. Such a fine child, and now he's like a little fool!" Consort Shu said anxiously. "What should we do?"
Little Five looked at Eleven and Twelve, who sat on either side of their father in his lap, also looking at him curiously.
But the Emperor kept his eyes down, looking at the eleventh and twelfth princes, and never once looked up at him.
Shen Shixi saw this and could understand, but she couldn't support it. She beckoned to the Fifth Prince, "Fifth Prince, come here!"
The Fifth Prince dared not disobey and slowly walked over, about to kneel, but Shen Shixi stopped him. "No need for such formalities! Fifth Prince, did you know before that you weren't born to your mother?"
Xiao Wu snapped out of his reverie, thought carefully for a moment, then shook his head. "Replying to Mother, I don't know!"
Shen Shixi praised, "What a well-mannered child! You've always thought you were born of your mother, so you are you, right?"
Xiao Wu didn't understand the meaning of those words, but grasped their literal meaning. He nodded, "Yes!"
Shen Shixi then asked, "Then let me tell you, you were indeed not born to your mother, but to another person. Are you still yourself now? You mean, have you become another person?"
He looked at his body, then spread his hands to look at himself again, shook his head, and said, "No."
"You're still yourself, right?"
"yes!"
"Is there any difference between you, born to your mother, and you, born to someone else?" Seeing his confusion, Shen Shixi reminded him, "It's still you, right?"
"Yes!" The Fifth Prince understood, smiled, and looked at his mother.
Consort Shu breathed a sigh of relief. She knew Chen Yuan had the ability to solve this. In her excitement, she rushed over and hugged her, saying, "Chen Yuan, I knew only you could help me!"
She didn't want to leave a shadow on her child's heart.
She raised her child with great difficulty, but she wasn't very good at being a mother. If she couldn't rely on Chenyuan, who else could she rely on?
"Do you have any manners at all? How dare you touch the Empress's body?" Li Yuanke roared in fury upon seeing this.
Consort Shu was so frightened that she trembled and fell to the ground. She used her hands to support herself and moved backward, then knelt on the ground, head bowed, extremely terrified.
Shen Shixi had no choice but to smooth things over, giving Consort Shu a helping hand and saying, "Alright, get up now. Take the Fifth Prince back and give him some good counseling."
She said to the Fifth Prince, "It doesn't matter who your father is. Your father said you are Consort Shu's son, so you are Consort Shu's son. Your eldest sister is of bad character. Your father sent her to a Taoist temple to practice Buddhism so that she would reflect on her behavior. Don't take her words to heart."
I heard you want to be a great general someday, that's great! Study hard, practice martial arts, and one day become the Great Wall of the Zhou Dynasty, just like your maternal grandfather!
After Consort Shu and her son left, Li Yuanke flew into a rage, "Is she sick? What's the big deal? Why did she have to come to you? So useless! Why did she have to raise a prince in the first place?"
This is just being unreasonable.
Shen Shixi looked at him with compassionate eyes, truly feeling sorry for him.
[This bastard, could it be that the postpartum depression she had when she gave birth to the Crown Prince and Xihe hasn't gotten better yet, and then she gave birth to Fuguang and Wangshu in quick succession, making her depression even worse!]
Li Yuanke grew even angrier, glaring at her fiercely, and he lifted the two children on his arm.
Wang Shu looked at his mother with his big, watery peach blossom eyes, stretched out his chubby little hands, and cried out, wanting his mother to hold him.
As a result, his mother ignored him and even had the wet nurse come and take them away.
Wang Shu howled desperately and turned around to hug his father. If his mother wouldn't hug him, his father would be fine too!
Shen Shixi pulled Wangshu from Li Yuanke's arms and handed her to the bewildered wet nurse standing to the side.
Li Yuanke reached out to his son, and it became a hand resembling Er Kang's.
Once the howling had faded into the distance, Shen Shixi walked over and sat on Li Yuanke's lap, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the cheek. "Who upset you today? Li Yuanke, you're becoming more and more like a complaining woman. What's wrong? Just say it!"