Chapter 10 — Crown Prince Concubine Sweet Mouth

I kept a pot of precious orchids, he ordered someone to change it into a pot of cacti, saying I was very good at identifying my own strengths. The last sentence always feels like a compliment. But his expression was so sincere, I decided to accept it. Half a year later, I became pregnant. The news spread to Khuong palace. Every day after the tidal wave, my father would run to the Eastern Palace, first asking me if I was eating well, then asking if the child was growing up well. Finally, the person touched my belly and seriously advised:

“You can be like anyone, but absolutely don't just be like your ancestors.”

I asked why.

“The bravery is too great, living will be very tiring.”

After my father heard about it, the man with a stick chased my father half the street. Tieu Thua Canh stood in front of the East Palace gate, watching all the excitement, turned around and asked me:

“Who do you hope the child resembles?”

Let's think for a moment:

“The face is like the Khuong family, the mind is like your highness.”

“What if my personality is the same as yours?”

"It's also very good. No matter where the sweet-mouthed person goes, he won't suffer any loss."

Tieu Thua Canh did not refute, just reached out to adjust my cloak for me:

"Like her very well. At least when you're hungry you know how to eat, when you're sleepy you know how to go to sleep."

I immediately asked:

“Where is good?”

He slowly replied:

"Soft heart, bright, knows how to make the people around you happy. The most important thing is to know how to compliment people."

“Your Highness also likes to listen to flattery now?”

“Other people's words, you don't listen.”

With a sweet heart, I decided to return later and say all the forty sentences I had accumulated for him to hear. ## 11 Three years later, the emperor became seriously ill and passed the throne to Tieu Thua Canh. On the day of the coronation ceremony, officials knelt down on the long steps. I stood next to him, looking at the person in the past who didn't even know how to eat on time, gradually climbing to the highest position, suddenly feeling a sting in my nose. Tieu Thua Canh held my hand under his wide sleeve. I said in a low voice:

“Your Majesty wears a dragon robe today, and the civil and military officials bow their heads in unison, truly extremely majestic.”

He looked straight ahead:

“They are performing a ceremony.”

"This also proves that the Ministry of Rites organizes ceremonies very well. Your Majesty knows how to look at people and use them in the right place."

The new emperor kept a serious expression, as if the person who had just ruined my compliment was not him:

“Say two more sentences.”

"The words prepared yesterday were all to praise the Crown Prince. Today, Your Majesty's status is different, I must think on the spot."

Tieu Thua Canh squeezed my hand tighter:

“Just think slowly. There's still a lot of time later.”

After ascending the throne, Tieu Thua Canh became even busier. Luckily, no one dares to stop me from entering the royal study. Every day we bring breakfast. The courtier saw me and immediately consciously spoke faster. Because they know, if the Queen comes in with a box of food, today's agenda is about to end. If the Queen begins to praise Your Majesty, it shows that Your Majesty is no longer hungry. If His Majesty proactively asked a question: "Are there no more words today?", then no one would expect him to criticize the chapter again. My father was also promoted, but he was still the most unimposing official in the court. The young official argued until his face turned red. As soon as he saw someone entering, he immediately closed his mouth, afraid that someone would say something:

“Your words are reasonable.”

My father was extremely pleased and gave it that you have reached the realm of not being angry but being powerful. Patriarch did not have the heart to tell people the truth. Later, his father finally returned home as he wished and bought a quiet manor outside the city. Every day he fishes, plants flowers, and plays with his great-grandson. He also specially ordered someone to put up a sign in front of the door:

“Don't bother yourself, housework will take care of itself.”

Unfortunately it has no effect. My father's urgent letter eight hundred miles away came first:

"Father, the Household Ministry refuses to give money to the Ministry of Defense. The Minister of the Ministry of Defense said that tomorrow he will bring blankets and mattresses to sleep in the Household Ministry's temple. Please help me."

The patriarch burned the letter. My letter was immediately delivered to:

"Father, your majesty only slept for two hours last night. Twenty sentences of praise won't help. Please help me."

The patriarch hid the mandarin's shoes in the deepest part of the closet, resolutely refusing to return to the capital. The next morning, Tieu Thua Canh personally led me and the two children to the door. My father walked behind, still holding the documents brought by the six ministries. The patriarch stood in front of the manor's door, looking at the emperor, looking at the Central Secretary's order, and looking at the great-grandson in my arms who was raising his hand towards him. He closed his eyes and agreed to step aside so we could enter. Later, my mother often said that the Khuong family did not have a successor. The Patriarch relied on his bravery to secure and stabilize the country. My father relied on his ingenuity to calm disputes in the court. I rely on a mouth to make the emperor eat on time. Each of us has our own role, and we can also consider someone to inherit our inheritance. It's just those successors... The next one makes the ancestors even more heartbroken than the previous one.

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