Chapter 152: The concubine was punished to become the principal concubine? ?

"so much?"

Yun Shu laughed, but Yun Chuhuan had a reason:
"That's not much! Think about it, Fifth Sister. When the Emperor punished me before, he didn't even bat an eyelid at me and he fined me five hundred taels of gold.

Now the situation with my brother, the Crown Prince, is much more serious. Father has even used a memorial to attack him, so the starting amount should be at least five thousand taels, right?"

"Have you ever thought that it might not be a fine?"

Yun Shu raised his eyebrows:

"After all, when the Crown Prince tried to frame my eldest brother and me, Father punished us by grounding us to death."

"That……"

Yun Chuhuan was somewhat dissatisfied:
"Continue the house arrest? Isn't this too lenient?"

It's just a foot ban, how is that a punishment?
He gave it out with real money!
"House arrest... probably not, right?"

The Spring Ploughing Ceremony is coming soon, and after the Spring Ploughing Ceremony the Spring Examination will also be approaching.

These two are both major events in the Tiansheng Dynasty. If the prince is confined to his house at this time, I am afraid that people in the court and the country will start to speculate whether the emperor wants to depose the prince!
Unless my father really intends to depose the Crown Prince, he would not do this.

But...other than this, how else can father punish the prince?
Because when Emperor Xuanwu asked her and Yun Chuhuan to come out, he said "go out first" instead of "go back first".
In case Emperor Xuanwu summons them again later, Yun Shu and the others cannot return to Fengyang Palace or Yaohua Palace first. They can only pace back and forth outside the imperial study in boredom.

I thought that Emperor Xuanwu would not be able to vent his anger in a short time, and Yun Shu was even prepared to stroll here for the whole afternoon!

The reality is very unexpected——

It was probably about ten minutes before and after. The prince was the first to come out of the imperial study with a sullen face, followed by Shen Jingshu, who looked tearful.

But the prince didn't care about the beauty's tears at all. Instead, when he saw Yun Shu, he pulled the corner of his lips with a forced smile, glared at her fiercely, and then walked away in the other direction without looking back.

The eldest prince and others who were a few steps behind him all had extremely strange expressions on their faces.
The Fourth Prince, in particular, after walking a few steps outside, could no longer endure it and wanted to turn back to the Imperial Study:
"No, I have to ask my father why he wants to do this..."

"You are crazy!"

Grabbing the Fourth Prince's arm and taking him away, the Third Prince looked gloomy:

"If you want to die, don't take us with you, okay? That's what the emperor wanted!"

"Of course I know that's what Father meant!"

The Fourth Prince angrily shook off Yun Chuhe's hand, his back straight as if he didn't care about life or death in front of the "truth":
"That's why I can't understand it! The actions of the Crown Prince and that Shen...daughter clearly disregarded etiquette and laws!

The way my father dealt with us today is really puzzling. We are princes and subjects!

Just now in the imperial study, you and your elder brother should have given no further advice..."

"Okay, okay, okay!"

The Fourth Prince has always been like this. Unless it involves the etiquette that he believes in, he is always so taciturn that people who don't know him would think he is a mute.

But once someone touches it, this person's preaching can silence even the most skilled monk in chanting sutras in the temple!
Seeing that the Fourth Prince was about to start a long speech, Yun Chuhe felt a headache and quickly spoke out to stop him:
"I admit that I am a coward and a timid person, and I really don't dare to disobey my father's order.

If you have any objections, wait until we are gone and then go find Father. No one will stop you, okay?"

"The saint once said..."

"Don't be a saint!"

Yun Chuhe interrupted him rudely:

"What does the saint say have to do with me? Everyone in the court knows that I am a dandy prince.
You've been talking for a long time but I don't understand a word you say. Do you know what it means to play the lute to a cow? Are you bored? "

The Fourth Prince: "..."

Yun Shu and Yun Chuhuan, who still didn't know what was going on, said: "..."

Two people who don't even like to go to the study room certainly wouldn't be willing to face the Fourth Prince who is in the middle of a big period.

I watched silently from the side as the eldest prince walked away with a gloomy face.

After the Third Prince confronted the Fourth Prince, he also walked towards the palace gate with an unhappy look on his face.
Yun Shu and Yun Chuhuan looked at each other and quickly chased after the third prince.

"Third brother! Third brother, please walk slower!"

He ran after the Third Prince and stopped him.

Yun Chuhuan almost wrote on his face that he wanted to eat melons:

"Third brother, why did you quarrel with fourth brother just now?

What happened to the Emperor? Did he fine the Crown Prince and his brother?"

"A fine?"

Seeing that the people chasing after him were Yun Shu and the others, Yun Chuhe stopped.
But perhaps he was still holding back some anger, and his words were quite sarcastic:

"Why would the emperor fine the crown prince? That's so vulgar!
The emperor punished the crown prince and his brother by making Concubine Shen his principal wife. He also punished the new crown princess to take good care of her pregnancy in the East Palace. He also arranged for all kinds of supplements and imperial doctors to be provided.
My father even said that if the child could not be born successfully, the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess, and the person who attacked the child would all be charged with murdering the heir to the throne!"

"...Ah? Punishment..."

Yun Chuhuan was stunned and turned to Yun Shu for help:

"Fifth sister, is it called punishment to make a concubine a principal concubine?"

"Maybe?"

Yun Shu was also somewhat confused by Emperor Xuanwu's move.

Although asking the Crown Princess to stay in the East Palace to take care of her pregnancy is actually a form of house arrest,

Moreover, the Emperor's order to the Crown Princess to take good care of her pregnancy was tantamount to directly exposing the Crown Prince's misconduct and the fact that he had an affair with Shen Jingshu before his marriage!
The prince's reputation had been tarnished since then, and the Censorate was bound to impeach him severely.

But compared to what the prince had done, what kind of punishment was this?
The protection is pretty good!

"Is it because Father wants to hold his grandson so much?"

This seemed to be the only reason Yun Shu could think of:

"My eldest brother has no children yet, and this baby of the Crown Princess Shen... is the first child of our father's grandchildren.

Therefore, the identity of the legitimate son must be arranged, and the safety issues must be guaranteed.

Even the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess themselves cannot harm this child in the slightest."

"Who knows?"

Yun Chuhe curled his lips and said sourly:
"Anyway, the Crown Prince will always be the Emperor's favorite son. Since the favorite son is about to have a son, it's normal for him to be treated more favorably."

……

Everyone thought that Emperor Xuanwu did this because he had a crush on the crown prince, and even more so on the crown prince's first child.
Even the prince himself, who had returned safely to the East Palace, felt so.