When Song Hongshen came back, Su Zhilan had already changed her clothes.

The bright red palace dress with phoenix pattern and phoenix wings woven with dense gold thread looks lifelike.

Seeing that Su Zhilan was ready, Song Hongshen ordered people to prepare a sedan chair and prepared to go to Qianyang Palace to pay his respects.

When the two arrived at Qianyang Palace, several concubines of high rank in the harem had already arrived, except for Concubine Chen, Jiang Ziyan.

Rong Fei, who was sitting in the front, suddenly said, "Sister Chen Fei is really something. Why did you keep His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess waiting? On such an important day, you didn't get up earlier."

Everyone knew what happened in the Eastern Palace last night. They also knew that the lights in Guanju Palace were on all night, and the Concubine Chen was so scared that she called the imperial physician overnight.

Rong Fei spoke softly and in a joking tone, so Emperor Xuande did not scold her.

The Concubine Shu, who was sitting next to Concubine Rong, whispered, "Sister Chen Fei has to serve His Majesty, so she must be tired and rest more."

When several people mentioned Chen Fei, they all felt a bit gloating.

Song Hongshen did not wait for Jiang Ziyan's intention, and ordered someone to prepare tea and bring the futon.

Emperor Xuande saw this and said, "Wait, the Concubine Chen hasn't come yet."

Song Hongshen said, "He is just an insignificant person."

While he was speaking, he had already brought Su Zhilan to the front of Emperor Xuande.

Su Zhilan knelt on the ground, called out "Father", and offered tea to Emperor Xuande.

The Crown Princess offered tea, and even though Emperor Xuande was dissatisfied with Song Hongshen's action, he had to suppress it.

I can't let the Crown Princess lose face in front of so many people.

Emperor Xuande took the tea, and the chief eunuch Hu Lu also presented a gift.

It is a complete set of gold-inlaid gemstone headpieces, made of pure gold and inlaid with red and blue sapphires. The workmanship is exquisite and the appearance is magnificent and luxurious.

But it doesn't look like it was newly made, it looks like it has been there for quite a while.

Emperor Xuande said: "This was given to your mother by the late Empress Dowager. I have kept it for many years. Now I give it to you. Your mother will be happy if she knows it in the afterlife."

Su Zhilan kowtowed respectfully and said, "Thank you, father, for the gift. I will take good care of my mother's old things."

Afterwards, Song Hongshen took her to pay respects to several concubines. They all gave her a generous gift and spoke to Su Zhilan in a friendly manner.

When Jiang Ziyan walked in, Song Hongshen was already planning to take Su Zhilan and leave.

When she entered the room, she bowed to Emperor Xuande and said, "I am late, Your Majesty, please forgive me."

Emperor Xuande had no intention of blaming her. Instead, he looked at Jiang Ziyan with heartache and said, "It's not too late. We are all family. It doesn't matter."

Then Jiang Ziyan turned around and walked to Song Hongshen and Su Zhilan.

"What happened last night was due to my failure to discipline my subordinates, which affected the mood of His Highness and the Crown Princess."

"When Ran Dong was in Guanju Palace, I thought she was quite clever. Who would have thought she was such a fool and dared to be disrespectful to the Crown Princess."

"Don't worry, Your Highness. I have already warned everyone in the palace. Anyone who does such a thing again will suffer the same fate as Ran Dong."

While Jiang Ziyan was trying to make peace with Song Hongshen and Su Zhilan, she was cursing Ran Dong for being stupid in her heart.

She wanted Jiang Shuyun to be favored and also to get closer to the prince.

Ran Dong is so good that he offended people directly.

It didn't matter that she died, but the prince mistakenly believed that it was her who ordered it.

So she bowed her head to Song Hongshen in front of Emperor Xuande and several concubines, just to reveal what happened last night.

She asked for nothing else but that when the prince ascended the throne, he would give her and her young son a chance to live.

But if we were to ask who Song Hongshen hates the most in this world, the first person would be Concubine Jiang Ziyan.

Song Hongshen directly took Su Zhilan's hand and said to Emperor Xuande: "Your son will take his leave."

After saying that, he turned around and left with Su Zhilan.

Not to mention responding to Jiang Ziyan, he didn't even look at her.

Jiang Ziyan stood there, her face flushed red, wishing she could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

It would be better for Song Hongshen to say a few words to slander or question her than to ignore her.

But what does this mean now?

Rong Fei and the others looked at Jiang Ziyan in surprise, and once again glanced at each other with gloating expression.

Emperor Xuande knew Song Hongshen's knot, so he just said, "This child is becoming more and more unruly."

Jiang Ziyan took a deep breath and her complexion finally returned to normal.

She said, "Your Majesty, please don't blame the Crown Prince. It was me who failed to manage my subordinates well."

When Song Hongshen and Su Zhilan returned to the East Palace, a concubine and two ladies were already waiting to pay their respects to Su Zhilan.

Seeing the two people coming in together, the eyes of several people all lit up. It was always good to be able to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

However, with the previous experience of Concubine Zheng as a lesson, no one dared to be presumptuous and performed the ceremony in a proper manner.

Song Hongshen did not stay long. He said hello to Su Zhilan and went to the study.

Su Zhilan spoke a few polite words to the concubines and ladies-in-law, and then sent them away.

Afterwards, the palace maids, eunuchs, and managers of the Eastern Palace came forward to pay their respects to the Crown Princess.

The leader was Liu Bao, the eunuch in charge of the Eastern Palace and who served Song Hongshen personally.

Su Zhilan sat in the main seat and first instructed Baiguo to give a generous reward.

She added: "I don't care who you belonged to before or who you worked for."

"Now that you have entered the Eastern Palace, the people you must be loyal to are me and the Crown Prince."

"If I find out that someone is betraying me, don't blame me for being merciless."

Su Zhilan was not very old, and her tone of voice was calm and indifferent, without any harshness of a superior when she spoke.

Everyone felt inexplicably relieved. It seemed that the Crown Princess had a good temper.

*

Three days after the wedding, Song Hongshen moved to the side room. But he would have meals with Su Zhilan every day, and the two of them got more and more comfortable together.

The three concubines also came to pay their respects every day. Li Liangdi and Shi Liangdi were relatively sensible and polite. At least on the surface, they were respectful and obedient to Su Zhilan.

Naturally, Su Zhilan didn't make things difficult for them.

Concubine Jiang Shuyun, on the other hand, often visited Guanju Palace. When paying respects, she would occasionally mention Empress Chen to Su Zhilan. It seemed that she wanted to use Empress Chen to suppress Su Zhilan, the Crown Princess.

Su Zhilan pretended not to hear the insinuations she made, because she was busy taking over the trivial matters of the East Palace during this period.

Those people thought that she, as the Crown Princess, had a good temper and a soft personality, so they acted more and more unscrupulously.

Someone even leaked who the prince met in the East Palace.

That day, Su Zhilan looked at the list in her hand and said, "That's about it. This many are enough to catch all."

No one in the palace expected that half a month after the Crown Princess' wedding, she beat to death five palace maids and three eunuchs in the Eastern Palace, and sent more than a dozen people back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

For a moment, the masters of each palace were all panicked.

Each palace appoints people based on their abilities.

But the Crown Princess's move seemed to be a way of catching all enemies in one fell swoop.

After finishing these things, Su Zhilan went to Song Hongshen's study.

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