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Chapter 359 Who wouldn't want to be treated gently by a man like this?
Who wouldn't want to be treated gently by a man like that?
Is it because the Crown Prince and Princess are legitimate sons that the Emperor cherishes them so much?
Not so!
Liang Anlan understood perfectly that these two children were born to Shen Shixi, and they were fortunate enough to be reborn as Shen Shixi's children, which is why they were so favored by the Emperor.
In the imperial harem, a son's status may rise because of his mother, or a mother's status may rise because of her son, but historically, the majority of cases involve a mother gaining status through her son.
Li Yuanke raised his hand and touched the mole on the Crown Prince's ear, which was the same as his own, and then ruffled the princess's hair. "The princess has dimples when she smiles, just like mine."
Liang Anlan didn't know that the Emperor had dimples when he smiled, so she looked at the Emperor's face and happened to see the dimple on his right cheek. The princess was patting the panel in front of the cart, and she also had a dimple on her face.
"Really?! That's amazing!"
Liang Anlan said with a smile, but in her heart she was thinking, "As expected of Shen Shixi's child, this mischievousness is just like hers. I wonder what the Emperor likes about her."
Her gaze also fell on the Emperor's left and right wrists, each with a ring. The one on his left wrist had a total of twelve rubies, gleaming with a chilling light.
The emperor ignored her and smiled at his two children, saying, "Let's go back. Your mother must be waiting; it's time for lunch. Daddy's hungry!"
They actually called him "father" and "mother".
Liang Baolin respectfully saw the father and his two sons off, but to her disappointment, the Emperor never turned back to look at her once.
It was indeed lunchtime. Shen Shixi had been busy with her folded documents all morning and was very tired. She got up and walked around the covered walkway a few times. The father and his two sons returned. The Crown Prince cried when he saw her and stretched out his arms to hug her.
Shen Shixi would never carry you. "Don't you know how fat you are? How could I possibly carry you? Your dad would carry you!"
The princess, quite self-aware, gave her younger brother a disdainful look and sat steadily in the stroller.
The crown prince persisted, so Li Yuanke picked him up. "Alright, stop crying. Your mother can't carry you anymore, and your father is almost too tired to carry you either. Can't you eat a little less?"
The crown prince kicked hard, hitting Li Yuanke in his groin. He was furious and cursed, "You bastard, just like your mother! If you keep causing trouble, I'm not going to care about you anymore!"
Despite saying that, he couldn't ignore it. He patted the prince on the back, and the prince turned around and pounced on Shen Shixi.
Shen Shixi was so annoyed that she had no choice but to take it and let him slide down until he was standing on the ground, hugging his mother's legs and howling.
The princess saw this and was very envious. She waved at Li Yuanke, wishing she could jump up on the spot.
Li Yuanke had no choice but to catch her, and she kicked her legs to try to get down to the ground.
The child was too big to stand, so Shen Shixi had to lift the prince up, and the couple each carried one of them into the palace.
While the couple was eating, their two children were drooling and struggling on the table. The wet nurses couldn't hold them anymore, so they had to come over and watch as their parents ate.
Li Yuanke couldn't eat anymore, so he put down his chopsticks. "These are truly two troublemakers!"
He brought the two children over, asking, "What can you eat? Let's see what you can eat!"
Shen Shixi had two bowls of rice porridge brought over, cooked until very soft, and asked the wet nurse to feed them. Only then did the two little ones settle down.
Shen Shixi instructed Chao En, "Have the Imperial Workshop make two children's chairs so that when the Crown Prince and Princess are old enough to sit, they can sit on them and eat at the table."
After noon, Shen Shixi summoned Yang Baishi to the palace to discuss Princess Xian'an's marriage.
The princess's residence was converted from the former Duke of Wei's residence. It had all the necessary regulations, but that was all. After all, she was neither the late emperor's legitimate princess nor his current sister. If everything was done according to the rules, it could only be superficially acceptable.
On the second day of the sixth month, Princess Xian'an was to be married. If the Empress Dowager did not care, Shen Shixi planned to arrange for Prince Yong'an to escort her to the wedding. However, the Empress Dowager suddenly changed her mind and arranged for Prince Guo to escort her instead. Shen Shixi then stopped caring.
All matters concerning the wedding were handled by the Imperial Household Department and the Ministry of Rites, so she didn't interfere much. Besides, the other party had a biological mother and a stepmother, and it would be wrong for Shen Shixi, as the sister-in-law, to meddle.
Four days after the wedding, Yang Baishi entered the palace again. This time she came to resign, and Shen Shixi advised her to be careful.
Yang Baishi said, "Thank you for your guidance, Your Majesty. My life is nothing to be cherished. I can only repay Your Majesty's kindness to me and Cheng'er with my life!"
At the end of June, Yang Baishi returned to Longyou. As soon as she entered the door, she was captured by two burly old women. She struggled for a moment, but when she saw Yang Shougui and his children sitting at the head of the table, she immediately understood. She smiled and was then heavily pressed to the ground.
"As expected of someone from a brothel. My father loved you so much, yet you, you shameless woman, betrayed him and us. What is your punishment?"
Yang Baishi ignored her eldest daughter Yang Sijin's words and instead looked at Yang Shougui, "My lord, if you want me dead, just say so. If you are afraid of being accused of killing your wife, or of the Empress's wrath, I can kill myself. Why go through all this trouble?"
Yang Shougui looked at her coldly and asked, "Are you one of the Empress's people?"
"What merit do I have?" Yang Baishi calmed down. At worst, she would just die!
"You vile woman! You really are the Empress's woman! Back then, it was you who orchestrated my grandfather's contact with my father, wasn't it? You caused the wrongful deaths of my maternal family, and now you're betraying my father! You want to kill our whole family!"
Yang Sijin stepped forward and slapped Bai Shi across the face. Bai Shi dodged, grabbed Yang Sijin's hand, and asked Yang Shougui, "Master, have you already divorced me? If not, is there any woman in the world who would hit her stepmother?"
"Who do you think you are, the legal wife? My mother was my father's legal wife. You, a former prostitute, dare to dream of being the legal wife? You shameless slut, how dare you even show your face here!"
Yang Baishi smiled and looked at the silent Yang Shougui, saying, "My lord, I am grateful to you for rescuing me from that despicable place back then. My father was unjustly imprisoned, which is why I was sold to such a place. I was an innocent person when I was with you!"
Yang Sijin sneered, "How dare you say such things!"
Yang Shougui remained silent, staring at her coldly.
The eldest son, Yang Xianqian, said, "Bai, you don't need to make excuses! What kind of person is Empress Shen? If you had no merit, would she have given the princess to the son of a prostitute?"
"When my grandfather contacted my father, it was you who interfered. You don't need to deny it; the person in charge has already confessed."
Yang Baishi looked up at Yang Shougui in disbelief. He sat on a chair in the tiger-skin shop, seemingly unfazed by the heat rash. "Baishi, do you have anything else to say?"
Yang Baishi said, "Master, if it weren't for me, would you still be sitting here today?"
Yang Sijin stepped forward and slapped him across the face, angrily saying, "If it weren't for you, Father might already be a prince today, and Grandfather would still be the prime minister; didn't you betray Father just to get promoted? How can there be such a vicious woman like you in the world?"
Yang Baishi had her hands and feet chopped off, her tongue pulled out, and was placed in a jar in the woodshed.
Yang Sijin spared her life so that she could watch her father succeed and make her regret her past actions.
In the middle of the night, the door to the woodshed was opened, and a dark figure entered.