"Preventing minor issues from becoming major problems, the emperor should not leave the Chongqui Palace empty to avoid future disputes over positions."
According to the palace rules, the palaces where concubines live have only the right to use them. After death, there will naturally be new people moving in.
But Chu Huan could not accept it; the traces of his mother concubine would be cleared one by one by others, especially when compared to the crown prince.
Similar circumstances, but the empress's Junning Palace was sealed away.
Whispers within the palace say that Jing Fei was a favored concubine, and that the emperor has not forgotten her, which is why the Chong Cui Palace is left unoccupied.
However, compared to the empress, the claim that Jing Fei was a favored concubine is a joke.
When Chu Huan was young, he really thought it was all his fault and that he had dragged down his mother.
As he grew older, he realized that it was because the emperor loved the crown prince so dearly, to the extent that he feared the prince might be slighted in any way and thus wanted to give him exclusive treatment everywhere.
Therefore, when there were rumors in the palace, he immediately moved people into the main hall of Chong Cui Palace.
- The crown prince has already lost his mother, he should not be learning how to please me anymore. He is my eldest son. He is different from the other brothers.
Chu Huan made a scene, but he gained nothing; all he left behind was a reputation for being rebellious, injuries all over his body, and...a lesson.
He has no elders to teach him about human relationships and the world, so he has to rely on himself to understand. But he is also an early bloomer with wisdom, which enables him to see through his own circumstances and the human intrigues. This makes his life extra challenging.
Because he cannot feign ignorance, he cannot deceive himself, and he can only face malice with his innocent heart.
Chu Huan learned a lesson from this event, and the things he gained by trading his heart and body wounds for it, he taught wholeheartedly to Su Jun.
At that time, Su Jun was very young and listened in a daze.
Chu Huan said, "It's fine if you don't understand, but you must remember! Now that the Senior Minister dotes on you, but once the legitimate grandchild is born, who knows if he will still care for you... care!"
"Don't say bad things about my father!"
"Little peanut!" Chu Huan pounded the bed angrily and said, "I'm thinking of you!"
Su Jun's only advantage is that she was raised by Senior Minister Su herself, but with the birth of her grandchildren, as a daughter, she might be discarded by Senior Minister Su and pushed aside. What then?
The relationships in large families are complex, just like with the royal family!
Unfortunately, the six-year-old peanut doesn't understand and won't suspect that his parents love others more than him.
Little Chu Huan, not even reaching puberty, had already started to think about Su Jun's future with a sense of seriousness.
Children in the palace are mature, especially those who have lost their mothers. Those who don't mature early will be swallowed up by the palace.
Chu Huan rubbed Su Jun's hair and said, "It's fine if you don't understand, but whatever I just told you, you must remember!"
He hopes that Su Jun will never encounter such a thing in this lifetime, but he also fears that one day, if Su Jun really does encounter it, she might crash headfirst and bleed like he did.
If it really happens, impulsiveness and anger are the most useless things.
Su Jun avoided Chu Huan's hand with dissatisfaction. Her hair was soft and tied into two small pigtails, now all messed up by Chu Huan.
"Don't fidget! I've never done this kind of thing, and you're just making a mess!"
A six-year-old child would not be able to take any medicine.
Chu Huan's back was painted haphazardly, and this delicate work was too difficult for Su Jun. But there was no choice.
The emperor was extremely angry. Although he stopped the punishment of Chu Huan, he also ordered him to be confined to his quarters and not allowed any visitors.
No one dared to request a doctor for the third prince on the emperor's anger.
Because Chu Huan made a fuss and compared the empress to question why Kun Ning Palace can be preserved? His mother's can't?
Why can the crown prince go to Kun Ning Palace at any time, but he cannot go to Chong Cui Palace?
This seems like a childish statement, but in reality, it can be seen as the third prince's discontent with the Eastern Palace, which has been accumulating for a long time and was finally expressed today.
Nine years old is not a young age, and the third prince compared himself to the crown prince?
This is a great taboo.
Chu Huan is often too slow in some things, such as matters of love, and matters of hierarchy...
Only Su Jun, a young child, and the beloved daughter of Su Shaoxian, could let people look the other way and bring her in. She could give Chu Huan medicine without worrying about punishment from the emperor.
What would the emperor argue with a child over?
Su Da only speaks up for the third prince, but when it comes to his own beloved daughter, he has to argue with the emperor.
Su Jun clumsily applied the medicine and worried, "Will this leave a scar?"
Both were children with fair and delicate skin, and these wounds looked even more ferocious and terrifying on their bodies.
Chu Huan listened and genuinely worried, as he didn't like having ugly scars.
Su Jun said, "So next time you don't argue with the emperor, you were beaten so badly that you look awful."
Chu Huan was pleased, "You didn't see the look on Grandfather's face. He was so angry that he almost had a stroke."
"Chu Huan, don't you hurt?"
But Su Jun still said it out loud, she didn't want to say it, because being beaten would definitely be painful. Because before she came here, she knew that when Chu Huan was beaten, people kept asking him if he was in pain? Did he know what was wrong?
Pain = knowing one's mistake.
This is a simple equation in a child's mind, but Su Jun still asked.
Because she is still young and cannot keep secrets, and is not good at persuading others, she could only think of using scars to advise others. This was something that Little Peanut had thought about for a long time.
"I know you're not wrong, but do you hurt? Chu Huan, I cry when I fall while walking."
Chu Huan fell silent. He could be stubborn and not cry when facing the eunuchs' questions, but when faced with someone who cared for him, he suddenly wanted to cry.
Because Su Jun is the only one who can care for him.
This event left a mark in the young Su Jun's heart. Before, she only saw Chu Huan as the third prince, but now she felt that Chu Huan was so pitiful, beaten up by the emperor and yet no one cared for him.
As Su Jun returned to her mansion, she said to her father, "Father, can we take him back to the mansion to take care of him?"
Su Shaoxian picked up his daughter and refused her request for the first time.
"He is a prince. Don't let him deceive you."
At that time, Su Shaoxian said many things, but Su Jun only remembered this one sentence.
Chu Huan looked pitiful, but as he grows up, he can naturally have many things. He only needs to bow down to the emperor and the crown prince. However, many people in this world even if they want to bow down, cannot find a place.
Third Prince, the status of a prince is noble, and with one word, he can decide the life or death of others. People outside who use the banner of the prince can ruin a person's family...
So, don't feel sorry for him.
But in Su Jun's young eyes, how old would Chu Huan have to be when he grows up?
Six years?
That's enough time for her to grow from a child into an adult.
But he is really pitiful now.
So every time she enters the palace, she will bring him something, and she is also used to finding Chu Huan every time to listen to his heart troubles and help him solve some troubles.
As the emperor said when Chu Huan asked for Su Jun's hand in marriage on that snowy night — you cannot take Su Jun's kindness as an excuse to take advantage.
To many people, this was just a plot by the third prince to get what he wanted. Otherwise, why was it that only Su Jun, the daughter of Su Shaoxian, knew that he was being starved?
The status of a prince is noble, with the premise that others upset him, Chu Huan has the power to punish.
But the one who is ignored by his elders can only get the most basic guarantees in the depths of the palace. As for when the food gets cold? When the seasonal clothing in the palace is delivered late? Or when the winter heating is with the most ordinary charcoal?
These matters would no one dare to speak up for him.
Because there are countless excuses when asked, because the relationship of the palace servants is complicated, maybe this one is behind the Guifei, that one is related to the nursemaids near the empress.
Chu Huan has nothing. He can't break through this dense net all by himself. Only by growing up, becoming an adult, leaving the palace to establish his own household, can he be a bit freer.
But Su Jun can, because she is a little loved one of the elders, and after pointing out the problem, those servants daren't argue with her.
Also, because of Su Jun, after Su Shaoxian took up the cause, he showed more care for the third prince. He couldn't compare to the crown prince, but he was different from other princes.
Is Chu Huan taking advantage of her?
There was no answer before, and there isn't one now.
The third prince needed Su Jun before, and now the Prince of Qi needs the Su family.
The answer is in the future, after Chu Huan rules over the country, after he no longer needs Su Jun's help, how will he treat Su Jun then?
Many people would suspect this, thinking it's a scheme.
But Su Jun thinks they are thinking too much.
Chu Huan is such a proud person that he doesn't even want to bow down to the crown prince. If he were to bow and act docile, he would have the treatment of a prince in the deep palace and wouldn't have to suffer so much. But he deliberately doesn't do that.
Then it's even more impossible to scheme against oneself.
Although she... Well, she is a bit narcissistic, but people can't be this narcissistic, right?!!
